Contact: Marty Beil, executive director
(608) 836-0024 mbeil@wseu-24.org
Walker and Republicans Dismantling of Wisconsin and Its Values Continues
This week the onslaught continued on workers rights and benefits, voting, and Medicare for those less fortunate. As you will see in the following Legislative Report, Joint Finance continues their juggernaut through the budget. On Tuesday they passed significant changes in the pension system, changing vesting for new employees after 2012, and taking away pension benefits from part time workers prospectively in 2012.
They also established a study committee to report out in 2012 to change from the current defined benefit to just a 401K contribution program. All of our efforts at providing information, discussion, and/or compromise have fallen on deaf ears. The attitude of Scott Walker and the Republicans is that “it’s our way or no way”. Joint Finance plans on having a final vote on the budget bill sometime around the last week of June. All working men and women in Wisconsin need to be prepared to respond to this misguided, dangerous and unnecessary proposal. Senior labor leadership is currently developing a reaction plan.
It is absolutely clear that this onslaught against workers rights, the middle class and Wisconsin’s values is not a temporary, passing thing. A day does not go by without some sort of new, controversial legislation or republican initiative to benefit campaign contributors and supporters of the right wing ideology. Working men and women in Wisconsin have been cut out of the discussion. They have been shown incredible disregard. We need to stand firm. We need to fight back and recommit to our union.
Please take the opportunity to recommit by signing a voluntary membership application online (www.wseu-24.org; or www.wseu-sepac.org). or by filling out the paper form that you received in the mail. Contact your field rep or Council 24 with questions.
It’s about you, it’s about your state, and it’s about your future.
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