Rampage! All hell breaks loose as Gov. Scott Walker runs roughshod over public employees
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Credit:Peter F. Castro
Credit:Peter F. Castro
The upheaval started last Friday.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a "budget-repair bill" that would end nearly all collective bargaining rights for most of the state's public employees, as well as usher in changes to undermine union support. Walker also proposed increasing public employees' contributions to their pensions and health insurance. His goal, he said, is to help make up the huge shortfall in the state budget without resorting to furloughs and layoffs.
Where Walker and his Republican allies talked of fiscal prudence, however, others threw out terms like "union-busting,"