GRITtv: Diane Palmer & Sheila Cochran: Who Gets Hurt With Walker's Cuts

[Omaha Steve]

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If Scott Walker is allowed to gut public employees' right to collective bargaining, Sheila Cochran of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council points out, it will lower the floor for all Wisconsinites' wages and benefits. ; The unions in the state have long helped keep wages high and benefits, including health care, good for all of the state's workers, even as factories have closed and jobs gone overseas.The public sector remains the last bastion of union workers around the country, and Sheila joins Laura in Madison along with Diane Palmer of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin to discuss the impact the cuts will have on working families in Wisconsin and around the U.S.

Video at link.