Wisconsin Senate Ends Collective Bargaining For Public Unions--Without AWOL Dems

Well, it's official. Wisconsin fired the first shot over the bough of the bloated public union apparatus that has become a hangman's noose around public finances nation wide. This afternoon, they went ahead and passed a much-needed public union reform bill.(CNN)


And to show just how uninformed people are about the matter, this quote:


"The gig is now up. The fraud on the people of Wisconsin is now very clear. They are now going to pass a bill to take away people's rights," Barca, a Democrat, said."(CNN)


Barca, you're an idiot. Even FDR knew the limits of unions:


"Roosevelt's reign certainly was the bright dawn of modern unionism. The legal and administrative paths that led to 35% of the nation's workforce eventually unionizing by a mid-1950s peak were laid by Roosevelt.

But only for the private sector. Roosevelt openly opposed bargaining rights for government unions.
"The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."(Real Clear Politics)