Scott Walker’s economic mess: How worker wages were gutted in Wisconsin

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A depressed workforce. Median household income down. Empty union halls. Here's Scott Walker's real 2016 problem

DAVID DAYEN

I was in Wisconsin for the labor uprising of 2011. Faced with the threat from newly elected Gov. Scott Walker of eviscerated collective bargaining protections, unions and their allies brought hundreds of thousands of workers into the streets in protest. They fought like their lives depended on it. Four years later, we now know that they did.

The Washington Post returned to Wisconsin this past weekend to empty union halls and a depressed workforce. The public employee union law – which barred contract negotiations on everything but base wages and limited annual salary increases to the rate of inflation, forced most unions to collect their own dues rather than having them deducted automatically by the state and mandated annual recertification of affiliates – has been more successful than even its supporters hoped.

In the state where public employee unions got their start, public workers see no need to stay enrolled, since unions cannot by law effectively advocate on their behalf. Membership in the Wisconsin affiliate of the National Education Association is down one-third; the American Federation of Teachers dropped by one-half; the state employees union fell 70 percent.

There are fewer public employees working, too, even though Gov. Walker claimed that the passage of the anti-union law would save jobs. The Wisconsin Budget Project finds that the ratio of public employees to total population is at its lowest level in at least two decades.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/02/24/scott_walkers_economic_mess_how_worker_wages_were_gutted_in_wisconsin/

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1. He Won Two Elections & Survived A Recall. A Lot Of Workers Voted For Him.

I will be a number of public workers supported him as well.

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2. Now that all of these things have happened.

Hearing from the Relies that work for the State and voted for Snot,they regret their vote. Yes,they are TeaBillies,they bought the whole bag full of ALEC crap. They won't admit the fact they made a mistake,and somehow came up with some cock a mamie story of it was Obama's fault. First to worst.

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3. Walker's Way

Scott Walker has added to the Wisconsin mythos...

He's right there with the always bridal RoJo, Glenn tooGrosstobehuMan, Joe "Mr. Rightie" McCarthy and meat-eater Eddy G.

It's their Wisconsin Idea.

Bwwwwaaa

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