From The Wooden Shoe Collective Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA)
WHEREAS,
- Hundreds of thousands of union members in Wisconsin and across the country have mobilized to kill Governor Scott Walker’s “Budget Repair Bill,” which, in the name of balancing the state budget and erasing a $3.6 billion deficit that public-sector workers did not create, would effectively destroy public sector unions in Wisconsin and gut the benefits of 200,000 Wisconsin public sector employees while increasing their health-care costs.
- Statistics show that state employees on average earn less than those in the private sector with comparable education and experience, and that they have often taken modest or no wage increases to continue to build retirement security for themselves and their families.
- Similar bills are being proposed in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other states — all with the aim of dismantling public sector workers’ collective-bargaining rights, busting their unions, privatizing public services, and imposing massive cuts and concessions in terms of jobs, wages and benefits.
- All these bills are seeking to blame and punish working people for budget crises that originated not from