Josh Marshall: Look at the Map, How many states have collective bargining

[cal04]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/02/look_at_the_map.php

With the battle going on in Wisconsin, we wanted to ask: How many states have collective bargaining with public employees' unions? How many forbid it? Check out our map. It's pretty revealing.

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[HereSince1628]

2. Gee, there is a distribution that is surprising...not.

[Kolesar]

14. = bush-cheney 2004 ... eom

[highplainsdem]

3. K&R

[OneGrassRoot]

4. K&R n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I am SHOCKED I TELL YA, SHOCKED!

All of them ARE right to work states... in case anybody needs a translation... oh and yes a few are part of the old dominion too.

[Newest Reality]

6. Gee whiz!

That's what I would have imagined. However, I am a bit surprise at the black states that even make it permissible. I would have thought they all would be tan.

I'll add that all states should require collective bargaining and I strongly feel that we need a new push for unionization across the board. The main problem is that the Corporate Occupation uses intimidation and propaganda to poison those efforts for its own interests.

Our interests are usually not served or even considered by the dark, rising wave of corporatism that threatens to engulf us. It is really time for a large-scale realization of just what lies behind the corporate facade and their propaganda outlets comprised of the media facades is not going to be the way to find out. Peeling off that alluring, deceptive mask of narcotic illusions would do wonders for the whole world

[OHdem10]

7. Lowest standard of living in areas where collect bargaining is illegal.

[upi402]

8. Very telling

most of us should not be surprised. Great map, thanks!

[sasha031]

9. K/R

[ngant17]

10. Looks like Florida will be in their sites soon

With the corporate-parasite Rick Scott leading the way, it would be quite an accomplishment for this bunch of riff-raff.

Wisconsin is a testing ground for them. If they can score here, they would be emboldened to lash out at Florida next.

[w8liftinglady]

11. my partner belongs to AFT in Texas

he was dumbfounded,as his families are from Louisiana and New York,where collective bargaining was allowed.

[Enthusiast]

12. The old Confederacy.

Much of it is the old Confederacy. This is no coincidence. The South will rise again.

[Democat]

13. The richest US states require it.

That should tell you something.

[eilen]

15. It would be great to cross reference that with

the test scores/ education quality.

[eilen]

16. My last comment on comparing the test scores with the

lack of collective bargaining in the highlighted states was answered in a comment in Krugman's column today:

"Only five states do not allow collective bargaining for educators. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores: South Carolina, 50th; North Carolina, 49th; Georgia, 48th; Texas, 47th; Virginia, 44th. Wisconsin, with its collective bargaining for teachers, is 2nd."

Thanks Jeremy in Chicago!