Police, firefighters now in Walker's union-busting sights

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="236" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MNJdJbpj1GE" width="420"></iframe><br />Wisconsin <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/scott-walker-still-kills-jobs-better.html" rel="nofollow"><strike>Job-killer</strike></a> Gov. Scott Walker now says he wants to destroy collective bargaining rights for police and firefighters.<br /><br />If you're surprised by this, you haven't been paying attention.<br /><br />Walker exempted police and firefighters in 2011 from his infamous Act 10 in 2011 -- the one that caused <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests">massive, month-long protests in the state Capitol</a>. Act 10 was Walker's attempt to crush his political opponents -- unions representing teachers, snow plow drivers, solid waste workers and nurses -- by eviscerating their right to bargain collectively. <br /><br />Wisconsin's police and firefighters are not stupid. They stood with their public-sector brothers and sisters during the protests.<br /><br />Walker's plan was clear from the beginning. He was even <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-richards/scott-walker-the-divide-c_b_1528638.html" rel="nofollow">caught on camera</a> divulging his "divide and conquer" strategy to a billionaire,<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/05/walkers-divide-and-conquer-donor-paid.html" rel="nofollow"> tax-avoiding donor </a>in January 2011. Now he's putting it into play.<br /><br /><a href="http://fox6now.com/2013/07/29/gov-walker-opens-door-to-act-10-expansion/" rel="nofollow">FOX News</a> in Milwaukee reported the story:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Police and fire unions were exempted from the reforms, but now, Gov. Scott Walker has suggested expanding Act 10 to include those unions. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“I think now, for those areas, having seen that the world didn’t come to an end for other municipal employees, there might be a greater opening going forward because they’d say, ‘hey, you know, things worked out,’” Gov. Walker said Monday, July 29th... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Gov. Walker says the reason for that was public safety. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“If I had one jurisdiction where somebody walked off, or didn’t come to work or slowed down on things, and someone was injured or killed because of that — I said I can’t deal with that,” Gov. Walker said.</blockquote>The obvious question is why he didn't do it earlier if safety was such a concern?<br /><br />Maybe he was too busy <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/report-scott-walker-th-of-governors-on-job-growth/article_cb6dcfd2-e019-11e2-9637-001a4bcf887a.html" rel="nofollow">killing jobs</a>. The fact is things haven't "worked out" for other municipal employees, as Wisconsin's economy has been in the toilet since -- oh, just about the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/scott-walker-still-kills-jobs-better.html">time Walker took office</a>.

Police, firefighters now in Walker's union-busting sights

Wisconsin Job-killer  Gov. Scott Walker now says he wants to destroy collective bargaining rights for police and firefighters. If you're...

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