It’s Official: WI Gov. Scott Walker Signs Bill Stripping Public Workers Unions of Collective Bargaining Rights…
Victory!
(AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state’s public employees.
Walker signed the bill to do so privately Friday morning. He planned an afternoon news conference in the Capitol.
The explosive measure passed the Assembly on Thursday following more than three weeks of protests that drew tens of thousands of people to the Capitol in opposition. The Senate cleared the way for passage with a surprise move Wednesday that allowed them to vote on the bill without 14 Democratic senators present.
Walker has said if the bill didn’t pass up to 1,500 state workers could be laid off. He rescinded the layoff notices Friday morning.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, March 11, 2011, at 12:36 pm | 
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EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You to the People of Wisconsin for Supporting this Effort!
Lets keep the Ball Rolling !!
He’s saved 1,500 of their jobs and look at how they’ve treated him.
Outstanding!
Violent backlash -24h and counting. Stay classy, leftards.
Schwinnnnggggg
YEEEE HAAAW – FUCK YOU UNION DEMONRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t jump for joy yet, this isn’t completely over:
Election for state Supreme Court April 5.
This could go bad.
Fukitol:
Please explain.
In the mean time:
Congratulations to the taxpayers of Wisconsin!
Good job Gov. Walkers and Republicans.
Please stay safe. Obama has released his union attack dogs on you.
The legislature in Idaho did the same thing. But I did not see the union scum, race baiting poverty pimp Jeeeese or the walking Beluga Moore out there raising hell.
Maybe because everyone in Idaho is armed?
I saw a clever quote over at Ace of Spades HQ that was worth sharing:
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“In the present state of affairs I am convinced that we cannot possibly dispense with the trades unions. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions in the economic life of the nation. Not only are they important in the sphere of social policy but also, and even more so, in the national political sphere. For when the great masses of a nation see their vital needs satisfied through a just trade unionist movement the stamina of the whole nation in its struggle for existence will be enormously reinforced thereby.”
– Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter XII
(http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch12.html)
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Winning! Duh!
Tiger blood, dude!
So far so good. Strap in Guv, the lunies are only getting warmed up.
Congratulations, Governor Walker and the People of Wisconsin!
Thanks, gastorgrab for the quote, I’ll save that one.
Round up of the thuggery:
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2011/03/10/wisconsin-near-anarchy-most-collective-bargaining-rights-stripped-unionized-government-worms-issue-death-threats-thuggery-against-republican-wi-lawmakers-storm-capitol-video/
You mean ‘Collective Bargaining Privileges’.
I am sick of Public Unions calling Collective Bargaining a right.
NO UNIONS IN GOVERNMENT!!!
@Sickofobama:
All of this legislation will end up in the courts. First in Dane county where it most likely will be overturned. (Dane is the most liberal area of the state). After that it goes to the Court of Appeals. Regardless of that outcome it will end up in the State Supreme Court. At present the court is 4-3 conservative. Judge Prosser, a conservative, is up for reelection next month against a liberal. THAT’s why that election is so important. If he loses, the balance shifts liberal and all bets are off.
Hope this answers your question!
Crush public unions. Period.
Wisco Dave,
Thanks for clarifying my post.
Congratulations.
You cant chop down a tree by sitting on your hands.
God Bless Scott
@Fukitol
You are most welcome!
You in WI?
Let us hope this spreads across America like wildfire. Watch the fiscal recovery of this State over the next year, it will be like day and night!
Thanks Wisco Dave.
Even if this does end up in a liberal supreme court in Wisconsin – will it happen immediately?
I mean we aren’t going to know the outcome of Obamacare until 2012.
Thanks for your help.
Hey Grizz, you can if you are a beaver!
Settled just in time. Jesse Jackson has to hustle off to Japan. All the news cameras are over there and he is missing out on camera time.
Say,”Cheese” Jesse, you publicity whore.
You lose again. Let this be a learning experience for you, and your dumb masses, too.
Game, set & match. Congratulations Governor Walker.
@Sickofobama
I would think this would be settled in the courts, at least in the State of WI, before the end of the year (don’t know if they can do anything on a Federal level against this). Recalls will happen in a couple of months. They will probably try to recall Walker next year. My guess is that they will have limited success.
Remember – most of what you see/hear from Madison and Milwaukee is NOT reflective of the rest of the state!
Good job, Walker! Let’s bring back America, or at least, Wisconsin!
I see nothing wrong with Trade Unions… as long as Public Sector Unions die, Trade Unions actually are valuable…
just sayin..
Disagree? I will argue the point…
PLEASE stop calling the issue at hand “collective bargaining rights” We are not talking about rights. We are talking about a benefit. Don’t let the lefties frame the issue as a right.
Thank you.
i got something for all the union thugs out there whose hearts were broken because of walker: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
Van Grungy says:
March 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I see nothing wrong with Trade Unions… as long as Public Sector Unions die, Trade Unions actually are valuable…
just sayin..
Disagree? I will argue the point…
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Thank you to federal regulations and union labor…..
Not rights…
Not rights…
NOT RIGHTS!
Collective bargaining is a power or a privilege.
NOT A RIGHT!
Well I only live 30 miles away from Wisconsin…I may have to go across and buy a beer from that state.
They deserve my money more at this point than the cesspool known as the Twin Cities.
Dawg,
Putting a door on a chassis is NOT a Trade… please try again..
I build heating systems for commercial and high-rise buildings..
zero comparison..
don’t even get me started on the renovations that have asbestos hazards to deal with before real work gets done..
Do you want to keep your historical building facades?
just sayin..
Dawg,
unless you think that ‘illegals’ should deal with asbestos… cause I don’t think any human should be exempt from health and safety legislation…
Not all collective bargain rights were taken away, just some. Very important distinction.
wodun,
I repeat:
NOT RIGHTS!
Anybody else notice what the AP reporter and editors did with the story’s lede?
“Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights…”
Whoa! That’s a brazen lie, deliberately intended to make one Republican gov the heavy. The truth is that the duly-elected *state legislature*–both chambers– passed the bill.
Remember the “progressive” strategy point of “Personalize the issue”? Dems and all the members of the make-believe media routinely use that one–which is exactly what happened with the story about the Wisconsin bill.
now if we can fire obama