They're calling him the Mubarak of the Midwest: Wisconsin governor Scott Walker might have gone too far threatening to call the National Guard on union workers who might fight back against his draconian bill to strip their collective bargaining rights. Walker's union-busting has brought out thousands of protesters, who packed the capitol building and even drew support from the Super Bowl-winning Green Bay Packers. The protests continued today with a "sick-out" from Madison schools, and support just might be eroding for Walker's policies...
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I have read a lot of anti-union rhetoric
about this protest. I have seen a mountain
of comments posted by middle/low income
folks venting their anger about deficits
and having less than union workers.
The corporatists on Wall Street just love it
when the middle/working class turns against what unions remain.
After all, it was the unions who built the middle class,
got us the 40-hour work week, a decent wage
and abolished child labor in the US.
Yes, unions need to be reformed too,
but they are the only protection
that can keep the middle class jobs
from being turned into Wal-Mart jobs.
When’s the last time the millionaire and billionaires
and the big corporations paid their fair share of taxes?
Who cares — ”tax cuts for the rich,
wage cuts for the middle class” — get used to it.
By elkojohn on February 18th, 2011 at 12:49 am
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