Wisconsin Leads Way as Workers Fight State Cuts
By MICHAEL COOPER and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
NYT
The unrest in Wisconsin this week over Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut the bargaining rights and benefits of public workers is spreading to other states.
Already, protests erupted in Ohio this week, where another newly elected Republican governor, John Kasich, has been seeking to take away collective bargaining rights from unions.
In Tennessee, a law that would abolish collective bargaining rights for teachers passed a State Senate committee this week despite teachers’ objections. Indiana is weighing proposals to weaken unions. Union members in Pennsylvania, who are not necessarily facing an attack on their bargaining rights, said Friday that they planned to wear red next week to show solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin.
In many states, Republicans who came to power in the November elections, often by defeating union-backed Democrats, are taking aim not only at union wages, but at union power as they face budget gaps in the years ahead.
(More here.)
NYT
The unrest in Wisconsin this week over Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut the bargaining rights and benefits of public workers is spreading to other states.
Already, protests erupted in Ohio this week, where another newly elected Republican governor, John Kasich, has been seeking to take away collective bargaining rights from unions.
In Tennessee, a law that would abolish collective bargaining rights for teachers passed a State Senate committee this week despite teachers’ objections. Indiana is weighing proposals to weaken unions. Union members in Pennsylvania, who are not necessarily facing an attack on their bargaining rights, said Friday that they planned to wear red next week to show solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin.
In many states, Republicans who came to power in the November elections, often by defeating union-backed Democrats, are taking aim not only at union wages, but at union power as they face budget gaps in the years ahead.
(More here.)
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So the public sector workers believe private sector workers should work until they are 70 so the public workers can retire in their 50's? Hmmmmm....
Here's a headline suggestion: "WI Leads the Way for Taxpayer Rights"
30,000 demonstrators occupy the seat of Wisconsin government. The Koch Brothers financed Republican Party nationwide plans to end government, end our society as we know it. American demonstrators, set-up a parallel state government and develop a program to fully fund the needs of the People of Wisconsin.
For example, that brilliant, magnanimous politician Newt Gingrich recommended state bankruptcies to balance budgets. So we begin now with immediate suspension of debt service for the duration of the economic crisis caused by Wall Street speculation.
Please fellow Americans, begin a list here and elsewhere of practical and effective government and economic solutions, so that we the People can self-govern in the fashion of the American Democracy Jefferson, Madison, and their colleagues intended and established and expected to last for centuries.
The alternative is not just slavery under Republican Party autocracy, but violent extermination by starvation and lack of medical care. We fight a deadly internal enemy for our very physical survival, for our children and grandchildren, and future Americans, even our civilization.
Free Market profiteers and tax cheats caused this fiscal crisis. They plan and speak of horrible death of millions from starvation, disease and illness--the FINAL SOLUTION to the world depression. Fiscal discipline.
Are we, like Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and so many others in 1776, not prepared to defeat the autocracy that threatens us, and self-govern.
Begin now my fellow Americans in Madison to end Republican Party tyranny. You are the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, the Boston and Concord and Lexington Patriots.
We are all democrats, not slaves, not plutocrats. Begin self-government, by citizen councils, town hall meetings in every Wisconsin city, town, neighborhood, every school, hospital, business, government. Etc. Reach out to all unions and blue collar and white collar employees, police, National Guard, etc. Unify with students and parents. Unite all Americans for our common interests in defending our lives, our Democracy and our Constitution from internal traitors and tyrants. Keep a narrow interest protest only, you will lose. Now and forever.
Occupy Madison, but organize state wide.
And set-up correspondence committees, including with other states' and federal demonstrators.
This was the organizing method of Sam Adams, the leader of the Tea Party, and the Revolution of 1775!
Courage, confidence. We are the future, by knowing our past, our glorious past 236 years ago.
This battle is going to determine whether our country returns to social democracy, or whether we will accelerate our slide towards being a tin-pot authoritarian crony economy.
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