The 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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