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Walker Strikes Again: Signs Repeal of Milwaukee Paid Sick Days Law
Paying back his corporate donors and allies and sticking it to working families once again, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a bill that overturns Milwaukee’s paid sick leave law.
The law was passed with a 70 percent vote in 2008 and Milwaukee corporate interests soon filed suit against it, but in late March, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld the law. Today, Walker went to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC), the business group that tried to block the law, and signed the bill that preempts all Wisconsin communities from approving ordinances requiring paid sick days.
The bill was passed at the urging of the MMAC by the Republican-controlled legislature and specifically designed to block the Milwaukee law. Dana Schultz, lead organizer for 9to5, the National Association of Working Women, says Walker’s action is “an assault on democracy, local control, and working families.”
Voters can see that the governor and state legislature are more committed to paying back their corporate donors than creating good jobs for Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Area Labor Council President Shelia Cochran says state government should be working “for the people that elected them, not for a narrow group of corporate interests.”
The governor and his associates have disregarded the will of the voters, the decision of the court and opened the door to reverse local control wherever they see fit.
Walker’s action comes just days after he cynically announced a program to recognize state employees for their hard work—the same workers whose collective bargaining rights he stripped—and after he appointed a union-busting attorney to head the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.
Here’s a scary question. Who’s his next target?
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No surprise here, Mass is/was looking at a bill like this and people on the street (many of whom get no sick time) will not get behind it. They believe the same propaganda as is put out about a minimum wage. It will destroy jobs.
I am retired now, but, if I had a job with no sick time I would have to go to work when I was ill and set up a meeting with the boss. If I have to infect all of my coworkers he should get sick right along with them.
I can’t believe that the people of Massachusetts would approve of any of Walker’s plans but I understand the Democratic controlled House of Representatives wants to eliminate public sector collective bargaining, ala Wisconsin style. I could understand this happening in bright Red states like Georgia or Utah, but it is crazy what is happening in so-called “progressive” states.
Have working people’s minds become numb from spending too much time on the Internet or tweeting? I, too, am retired and can’t understand why these politicians want to move our country backwards.
ALL I have to say is weasel walker has got to be RECALLED! I hate what this bas–tard is doing to the people of this state. He is a worthless piece of shat.
what’s next? put all of the children back in sweat shops
Yep some of the Republican governors are trying to remove the child labor laws. Haven’t you heard?
This is another example of the newly elected members of the Tea Party Taliban in action. As Americans, we experienced justice being served last Sunday when Bin Laden was killed. Now we need to direct our attention towards a group of individuals that pose an equal or greater risk / threat to the American citizens…..the members of the Tea Party Taliban that were voted into office last November. These individuals have infilitrated the local, state and federal levels of our governemnt.
Their agenda and legislation has been focused on eliminating womens rights, workers rights , consumer protection, ending Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid, eliminating the Dept of Labor, OSHA, NLRB , etc, etc. The Tea Party Taliban has stated, preferred and ultimate objectives. Example…..stated objective is to save Medicare; preferred objective to significantly dismantle Medicare and the ultimate objective being to eliminate the entire program over time.
The members of the Tea Party Taliban suffer from the Kyl / Bachman Syndrome. The most common symptoms of this illness are displays of a false sense of accomplishment and achievement as a result of passing meaningless legislation destined to fail. Justification for their legislative activities is supported by a distorted presentation of the material facts.
This is a prime example of letting people know that the Republican and Tea Bag party’s are the same as communist. There’s no difference between to them.Lie to get control,take peoples rights,try to bust labor unions,take from the average men and women and give to the corporate interest.I hope someone takes drastic action and takes care of this low life so- and his communist administration.This man is trying his best to kill the middle and lower income workers and have everyone in the poverty soup lines.You can bet all of them have a front row reserved seat in hell.
While I am neither republican or communist, I think you need to take a couple of basic political science courses before you start naming things that don’t fit the definition. Walker may be a lot of things,but he’s no commie. Many totalitarian regimes do have similar traits, though. Regardless of description – LETS DUMP THE SOB!
Actually those are generic despotic tendencies. Communism is a lifestyle that eliminates competition and artificial social and political boundaries. Orthodox communism is a one-party democratic state with a command economy. They are just as susceptible to despotism as any other system. Remember, McCarthy was using strategies taught to him by aides that worked with known fascists taken from Germany – all his huffing and puffing was to prevent a careful weighing of the facts. Were Stalin, Mao and Castro fair-handed and beneficent? No – but they also weren’t orthodox communists either, they were powermongering despots that ran their respective experiments into the ground for avarice and excess, the very things the system was trying to prevent.
Yet what you’re describing is just textbook despotic authoritarianism. It was practiced in feudalism, post-Trotsky orthodox communism, found its fountainhead in the pro-corporate hypercapitalist social Darwinism of fascism, and can be practiced anywhere a prick thinks he’s God made flesh.
I find it interesting that they’re following Goebbels’ administrative policies set for the Third Reich – bust unions to keep people divided, destroy public education so everyone is stupid, deride intellectuals, find a bold outrageous lie and repeat it every day in every way, oppress minorities with legislation and the military and encourage everyone to basically be at each others’ throats. You want an interesting lesson, have a read of this: http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm
then read the Powell Memo, the template for all Republican activities:
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html
and tell me what you see when you look at a Teabagger. And how can anyone call the Third Reich socialist when the first people in the concentration camps were socialists? I’m just King’s Muslim bogeyman hearings are such a laughingstock even to my conservative friends, because it’s a clear attempt to turn honest, hard-working American Muslims into Hitler’s Jews, into the ‘malicious other’. But the problem that nobody is willing to take the idea seriously that the Tea Party is a protofascist construct just because of Godwin’s Law and basic and a profound post-McCarthyist misunderstanding of what socialism really is (like Denmark/ Norway, not Stalin/Hitler) is going to bite everyone in the collective butt.
I guess Governor Walker likes for his aides to report to work with the flu or with a contagious disease. At least then he can claim that the Democrats are to blame for working while they are sick. Well Walker is sick already, so why not make sure he gets sicker? Also recall this slime ball!
I have never understood this. How does it improve efficiency and productivity if I come in with the flu instead of staying home 2 days and infect everyone in the workplace so that nobody can work at even half speed for a week? I haven’t seen any studies of this even from the Chamber of Commerce.
How much longer do workers have to tolerate this neo fascist corporate puppet – he is a definite enemy of working people and must be stopped immediately.
I dont understand how this character was voted in. what lies were told, what promises were made to his citizens, or was everyone asleep when voting. not only is he to be recalled, but make sure that everyone votes to insure that this never happens again anywhere.
I remember a couple of years ago telling some one that allowing big company’s to contribute what they want to elect some one was wrong. Big company’s can buy a election any where they want. Money talks and the little guy can not compete with his $5.00 here and there. Get smart and recall the ones that help only the big company’s.
I can’t wait for that Nazi to be recalled
Walker is a soulless s.o.b. He is trying to muck up the works just as much as he can in what time he has to do it. Wisconsin must recall him at the earliest possible moment.
I guess I am naive, but, how does Walker overturn a law that was passed through the voting process? HOw can he pre-empt the will of the people, or, am I missing something here?
And, how can middle class employees support this governor? It has been years since workers were denied paid sick days. We are returning to the days of the pre-union sweat shops.
When will the people get it in there thick heads that just because they don’t get the benefits they think no one should. The only reason they anything is because someone may have them. Wake up and show some guts. Tell your employer you want sick days. Don’t be such a mouse.
WANTED – SCOTT WALKER – ENEMY NO 1 – OUT!
i wonder if the people that voted these looney tunes in regret it now???????? i think myself they are a radical bunch of people, that are pushing all these laws, talk about socialism, this is like hitler style. i really didn’t think the republican party was like that. i vote for who is for the people , but these crazies are way out there. where did they come from anyway???????