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Home Front: Politix
Wisconsin's Incredible Shrinking Public-employee Unions
2012-06-01
Public-employee unions in Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic drop in membership -- by more than half for the second-biggest union -- since a law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker sharply curtailed their ability to bargain over wages and working conditions.

Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed AFSCME's figures. A spokesman for AFSCME declined to comment.
See what happens when the employer no longer automatically deducts Union dues from the pay check.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#3  Since Wisconsin is involved, as much fun as I'd have blaming Hugo + Michelle [Michelle's Boyz] I won't.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-01 20:01  

#2  IMO the states of Wisconsin + PA + CA-Nevada are litmus tests for how the AFL-CIO = Big Labor will do under OWG-NWO, i.e. Space Govt-Order, + NAU. The riots we see occurring in the democratic socialist States of the EU/EuroZone will occur here also, albeit bigger + badder, iff the US Econ continues to tank.

WE READ OR HEAR ALOT ON THE MSM-NET ABOUT HOW THE US-ALLIES ARE KICKING RADICAL ISLAM'S BUTT ALL AROUND THE WORLD, BUT WHAT NEW ECON MARKETS ARE AMERICAN COMPANIES HETTING ACCESS TO IN RETURN.

HISTORICAL "IMPERIALISM" OR THE NEW "GLOBALISM/COMMUNALISM/COMMUNITARIANISM", ETC. MIL + ECON POWER ARE MUTUALLY INCLUSIVE, NOT EXCLUSIVE - MIL POWER WIDOUT NEW MARKET(S) ACCESS IS NONSENSICAL.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-01 19:57  

#1  Collective Bargaining=Closed Shop
The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed the closed shop in the United States in 1947. However, politicians and 'social justice' schooled judges have allied with union organizations over the years created a linguistic fiction, "collective bargaining", that somehow compulsive union extortion deductions are not closed shop. See also Protection racket
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-06-01 08:25  

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