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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Wisconsin Senate Ignores Workers Pleas, Passes Bill That Crushes Rights

WisconsinThe Wisconsin state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that cripples organized labor.
The Republican right-to-work bill was jammed through with no support from Democrats in a 17-15 vote after a mere eight hours of debate. The measure is now headed to the Republican-controlled Assembly, where the bill will be taken up next week and is expected to easily pass.
Republicans weren’t satisfied with the damage being done to laborers by the passage of the Act 10 bill in 2011, and now they want to twist the knife in the wound by passing the right-to-work bill, which will do nothing to create jobs or help the economy, but simply increase profits for corporations and CEOs by limiting unions’ resources and lessening their ability to bargain for workers’ rights.
Thousands of protesters flooded the Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, but as it did in 2011, their pleas fell on the deaf ears of legislators eager to further strip their rights.
Gov. Scott Walker has said that he will be giving the bill his blessings by signing it, even though he had asked legislators to hold off on the issue until next year so as not to do any more harm to his tainted image with workers should he choose to run for president in 2016.
Showing us once again that Walker is more concerned with his own political aspirations than he is with the welfare of the people of his state.

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