Dems race to OK union deals
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats scrambled Tuesday to set up a vote on new contracts for thousands of state workers before they lose their legislative majority, taking the unusual step of going around one of their own leaders.
** The money quote: **
But Democrats control both the Assembly and the Senate until Jan. 3, when Walker takes office and Republicans seize control of both legislative houses, and they’ve been pushing to complete the deals before they lose power. The conflict grew even more heated last week when Walker suggested he might consider abolishing state employee unions.
“Bring it on,” Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, which covers about 22,000 state workers, said Tuesday. “If he wants labor unrest . . . bring it on.”
Beil didn’t elaborate.
** Sounds like a threat of violence to me **
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My reply to the Letters to the Editor page:
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I guess we know how much respect all those lame-duck senators and assemblypersons have for their constituents - they are insisting on jamming expensive union contracts down our throats, knowing full well this is their last chance to pay off their political debts to the unions.
I hope Governor Walker makes good on his promise to outlaw public unions in Wisconsin, As far as I am concerned, anyone who wants to work for a governmental agency should accept whatever pay the people, through their elected representatives. judge is proper for their job, and not complain. They are free to seek real, productive jobs in the private sector, where they are free to join a union if they want to.
If you work for the people, you should not be threatening the people, like Mr. Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, does in his statement. I believe what he is quoted as saying could be construed as a threat of violence.
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