There is a Need for the Friends and Family of Public Employees to Know the Real Truth Behind the Budget Repair Bill

This editorial ran in the Cap Times last Wednesday, but has now started circulating the web. It is a worthwhile reading, mostly for the supporters of Governor Walker's budget repair bill. Governor Walker has been stating all along that state employees need to contribute to their pensions and more toward their health care. If state employees did not already do that we would have to agree with his call, but the truth is, the Republican Party in America wants to seize total control on government, at all levels, and with labor being the collective voice of the majority of workers and those less fortunate, they need to eliminate this collective voice so their is NO ONE to speak back.

The truth is now coming out that Governor Walker has stepped to the plate and volunteered to make Wisconsin the example for the rest of the nation. He has chosen to eliminate collective bargaining for ALL public employees so that employers can continue to erode wages and benefits and the right to bring forth any complaints for unsafe and unfair treatment in the workplace.

The private sector unions are also not buying into Governor Walker's scheme either. They know full well that if he succeeds with his agenda on public employees that his private business supporters will be demanding he bring forth legislation to do the same to the private sector unions.

The budget repair bill has little to do with eliminating a deficit and more about taking the "Rights" away from the people, much like he took "Rule Making Authority" away from other government officials and legislators so that he had the total power. Protester signs that use the words of Walker and Dictatorship in some form of message ring very true.

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Posted by Steven Williams
PEL Coordinator
AFSCME Council 24 AFL-CIO