Labor Vows To Step Up Recall Effort Against Wisconsin GOP, Challenge Anti-Union Bill In Court
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Knowing that their bill would never pass with the 2/3 support it needed, Wisconsin Republicans drafted a second bill, primarily to strip unions of their collective bargaining rights, which only needed a simple majority to be passed. Labor unions vow to fight it, and to recall GOP Senators.
WASHINGTON — Dealt a major setback Wednesday night in a high-stakes battle over union rights in Wisconsin, labor leaders nevertheless insisted that they would emerge from the three-week long saga energized and eager to continue fighting.
Hours after Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and his Republican allies in the state Senate took nearly everyone by surprise and pushed through a stand-alone bill stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights, labor officials pledged to ramp up efforts to recall Republicans and challenge the legislation in court.
Only shortly before the vote took place, local news outlets reported that Republicans were splitting Walker’s budget repair bill into two. While the Senate requires a quorum of 3/5 of its members to vote on fiscal statutes, just a majority is needed for other matters. Therefore, Senate Republicans broke off the most controversial portions — including a proposal to strip away the collective bargaining rights of public employees — into a separate piece of legislation that could be passed without Senate Democrats, who were still out of state.
Labor officials quickly lambasted Republicans, calling what they did the “nuclear option.” Last month, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) had said he would not pass any portions of the budget repair bill without Democrats’ participation.
“Senate Republicans have exercised the nuclear option to ram through their bill attacking Wisconsin’s working families in the dark of night,” said Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt in a statement. “Walker and the Republicans acted in violation of state open meetings laws, and tonight’s events have demonstrated they will do or say anything to pass their extreme agenda that attacks Wisconsin’s working families.”
Neuenfeldt’s comment that the GOP may have violated state laws hints at a possible court challenge should the legislation be passed by both legislative chambers and signed by the governor. Later in his statement, Neuenfeldt also said that what Republicans did “is beyond reprehensible and possibly criminal.”
A clearer indication came from Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI), the union representing public school teachers in the city.
“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike” – Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
Woaah SQ, that is one heavy history lesson for the Teabaggers, 😆
RECALL ALL OF THEM!
@Suzie Q; “We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike” – Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
Wow how history repeates itself. Why that sounds just like Trumpka yesterday. Thank You for the post to remind us all exactly how liberal socialists you know the very ones that broke into the WI capital and threatened cops. Why gee! I have not seen any T-Party people getting violent. Oh and let’s not forget those death threats. The union people should perhaps READ their own Constitutuion and what it says about walk offs and strikes. You know the laws written by democreeps. Yes recall is in the woks for those very democreeps who have QUIT THEIR JOBS!
Really? Why you should have known that the Tea Party Moose Slayer had 20 Dems in her crosshairs and one of them got shot in the head!
Moose slayers motto was: “RELOAD”
No violence in any of that, eh, Words of Farts?
Wakeup- you are in a fog of denial!!
Nuf sed, SQ, I’m ouuta hear.🙄
Bwahahahahaha
@ Suzie Q: And once again when liberal socialists get rebuked they feint and try to change subject to relate to a single sentence. 1.) SEIU union thugs beating a black man for anti Obama sign 2.) Pro Union fanatic threatening to break a camera mans g-dam neck 3.) Union pussy punching a camera man not knowing he was on camera 4.) Hired union street creeps walking up to and pushing the geekyest looking person in a crowd (real brave) 5.) FAT union freeloader rushing down the street and shoving a man (from behind) to the ground 6.) Democreep Senator stating we must get bloody 7.) Union losers threatening Senators as they walk to their offices 8.) Union morons threatening cops 9.) Union losers sending death threats by e-mail to Senators (really brite union people they are) 10.) Uneducated union losers carrying COMMUNIST FIST signs not knowing the TRUE meaning of them. 11.) And Obama still has NOT kept his lying anti American socialist ass from putting on a pair of comfortable shoes (as he PROMISED) and walking the line with you freeloaders has he hmmm?. 12.) Longshoremen Unions nationwide going on a 3 day shut out (2010) to support some union idiot in the UK that got fired for screwing up BIG time. All the while, Truckers here couldnt earn a living to feed THEIR families, and businesses had to do without the freight they paid for, all while the unions idiots (who were drinking 16oz Buds and playing poker all day) that did the shut out also cut truckers tires and broke their windshields, got paid for not doing a dammed thing except drinking, poker and mayhem. 13.) Let us not forget the most recent union embarrassement (no violence here) when they was caught multiple times on camera on their breaks smoking weed and drinking 40 oz’s in the park. Perhaps one of YOUR cars was made by those impaired UNION idiots. Please give some more of YOUR (Dues) money to your buddy Trumpka so he can get up and make more hilarious cheerleading rally speeches as he laughs at you all the way to the bank.
Words of Farts-
You have proven to me that you are all MOUTH!
Me? I listen… and then I THINK before I speak. In other words, I don’t ramble on and on… I am a person of few words but make my point clearly.
GAME ON!
heart aches by the number,,,troubles by the score…….zzzzzzzzZZZZZ