WI GOP Tries Illegal Tactics To Pass Anti-Union Bill

Wisconsin Democrats say Republicans are breaking the rules in their rush to pass a "budget repair bill" that contains anti-union provisions. Republicans in the State Assembly have enough votes to pass the bill, but decided to start voting on it before the Assembly was scheduled to meet. Republican Assembly Leader Jeff Fitzgerald said he thought the Democrats would not show up for the scheduled 5pm vote. Eventually he agreed to rescind the vote. After the session, a group of Democratic Assembly members dressed in an orange solidarity t-shirts talked to The UpTake. "In their haste to do business without us on the floor before the designated time to begin they actually passed my amendment by mistake." said one. "They tried to silence us" said another. "They're trying to shut down democracy and shut down the voices," said a third. "The fact that someone is in the minority, that we all represent the minority party in the state of Wisconsin doesn't mean we we have a voice." Other quotes from the Democratic Assembly members: "This bill has almost nothing to do with balancing our state budget. It's merely a guise to push through one of the most radical to push through one of the most radical agendas in the reduction and loss of workers rights that we've seen in 50 years." said another member. "When we came in this morning we wanted to introduce our constituents and they shut us down. They walked off. They didn't want to hear that over 50,000 Wisconsin citizens have spoken out over the last week against Governor Walker taking our rights." "Today we asked our Governor to show some leadership. Not only did he flatly refuse to meet with us at the Capitol, but he flatly refused to even discuss the offers that have been made by organized labor to help bring an end to this impasse."

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[ThatMiserableCat]

@SolarServer Right you are. Why is it, that Public Employees can EXPECT RETIREMENT FOR LIFE WITH COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS? None of the REST OF US DO! Us working people have to save our money and put it in a 401 (k). !!!! Why do public employees expect something that NONE OF THE REST OF US DO?

California is BANKRUPT as of 2 years ago. 42% of the DEFICIT is for PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FREE PENSIONS FOR LIFE.

Where do I sign up for a government job? I want free money for life, too!

[Mufaso1000]

How can there be unions in America? Unions are a communist idea brought over here from Germany in the 1880s. Unions are the reason businesses are moving overseas and why labor work is so high. Often you pay more for labor than you do parts.

[SolarServer]

To you school teachers. I as a taxpayer am your employer so I will decide how much I can afford. You have a right to work elsewhere if you prefer and don't like your salary and benefits, but don't threaten me because you don't get what you want. Your complaints are not about teaching at all .... but only a form extortion and if you keep threatening me as your employer I will terminate your contract. Sorry ... but that's the way it works.

[slapshot445]

they talk about shutting down democracy, when they're the party who ran away from their elected office in order to deny others their right to vote on a bill. Typical hypocritical democrats

[wingnutwi]

All I can say is, this is a prime example of journalism being "done to us". The Onion isn't journalism, neither is UpTakeVideo.

[wingnutwi]

Well, I figured I'd stop back to see where UpTakeVideo posted the proof that the tactics used by the legislature were "illegal" as the title of this video claims. I've asked repeatedly for the law, statute, municipal code, etc that has allegedly been violated. Scroll back through the comments - I still don't see the statute, law, or code that has been violated posted. UpTakeVideo has violated one of it's own rules. If you cannot state the source of your claim, why has the title not been changed?

[Sideshowbobx]

@ab330

don't let that the union read - they will picket your place for weeks.

How can one dare to fire an abusive, unproductive, unwilling, non-performing teacher that getting fat on your money while molesting your daugther or son...

How dare you to pay a performing teacher a top wage rather then treat that one like the rest of the losers on which we unions get fat on.... Unions contributions, special privileges and the Dems. But there are scoialist in the GOP too, take all the Neocons.

[Sideshowbobx]

They voted your "Right" away - they rather corrected a legislative mistake to create a privilege that legalized for the unions the crime of extortion.

Dems didn't wanted to vote on this anyways, that why they went in selfchoosen exil, while the remaining repesentives prefered to complay with with duty of their political role. And this stand-off has more from a attempted coup d'état then legitime political protest, so it the Dems that act undemocratic as unlawful here and no one else.

[pFhUCKpFhACE]

@ddlion125 - ...pussies...???

Well, that wasn't very nice, now was it...?

dildolion125, if I didn't know any better, I'd almost think you were trying to hurt my feelings...

Well, anyways...I should probably point out that if you're going to call someone else a 'retard', you should probably learn how to spell at something higher than a fifth grade education level.

The word should have been 'brakes'...not 'breaks'. You're welcome.

P.S. ~ Eat a dick.

[ddlion125]

@pFhUCKpFhACE that's the problem with you liberal pussies.. you think that just because im a fiscal conservative you believe i also need to be religious and that i dont believe in abortion, well fuck face, you are wrong on both counts... and if there actually is a god hopefully the breaks on your car fail while you're driving on the highway.. we dont need people like you reproducing and staining the gene pool with you retard dna