Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Curbing Union Rights

Good Job Wisconsin and the Govenor it is about time!

You go --- Wisconsin!!!

I want to know why the senators that fled the state to prevent a vote can't be terminated or fired. I don't know of any other job that would not fire a person that deliberately did not come to work because they did not agree with the job or duties for that day. The state should be able to terminate them for job abandonment, because that is what they are doing and it needs to be addressed. What if this starts to happen in Washington? How long will the government allow the actions of a few to hold it hostage?

Absolutely ridulous when I was a child, unions were as scary to companies as they now seem to be to polictions, they cannot keep people from having a fair workplace and with all their faults it it is the best way to protect those who will not he protcted.

The movement to restrict worker rights to form a union in WI is not about budget cuts; it is about finishing the job of busting the unions and the middle class that started under the Regan Administration. Over the last qtr century the elite have been slowly destroying the middle class and middle class jobs. Corporations have been filing for chapter 13 and getting rid of their obligations to their retired employees and keep the assets of the company. The government and the courts have allowed them to do this. (the steel industry, the autoparts industry, the textile industry, grocery stores, department stores, ... Do you know who got stuck paying those obligations? The taxpayer, and to top it off the workers ended up getting less than 30% of what they were told was part of their salary. The corporate officers were left whole. We need to change the laws and strengthen the unions, not eliminate them.

When passed by the Senate it will also make it so the employees that do not want the UNION using their dues for The benifit of the Dem party the right to say no to paying dues to the UNION. What a idea-- individuals making discisions on what they want their money to go for. 80% of dues go to pay for political issues.

Right On ! I applaude Governor Walker for taking the needed steps ! While the private sector has suffered through pay cuts and layoffs the State Union have continue to enjoy unprecedents pay raises and benefits ! Time to take the States back from the Unions !

Corpshillsgop and Michael need to study up. This fight only rages from the left when certain groups (public sector unions and other LARGE Dem contributors) are under fire. The left and the very far left leaning media were no where to be found when hundreds of thousands lost their jobs to; a moratorium to offshore drilling after the BP spill, a refusal to turn the water back on to save jobs and farms in CA because of the "delta smelt".....a minnow, the closing of hundreds of car dealerships after the government takeover of the car companies, and many, many more. This administration is not for the middle class. In fact they can't afford a middle class. They need to destroy jobs, tax companies out of the country and inflate costs across the board so they can create the ruling class they all belong to. They loathe the very existance of a middle class. Remember Joe the plumber. Obama told him to his face that he needed to take money from him to give to others. Not to raise them up, but to keep the "Joe the plumbers" down. The ruling class needs poor people. By the way......right to work states are fairing much better in this economy than those being ground into financial ruin by unions.

Good for Wisconsin!!!!

When Walker says he wants to limit collective bargaining to wages and benefits, what he is really saying is that he needs to be free to roll back teacher tenure, reward good teachers with merit pay, give parents choice about where to send their children, and assure that -- even if there are layoffs -- that they are based on merit not seniority.