jsonline.com - Updated: March 1, 2011 10:25 a.m. | Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill provisions requiring workers to pay 5.8% of their salary toward pension costs is unconstitutional, according to Milwaukee ...
coopmike48 wiscnews.com - It's no secret public union employees are upset with Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill. An unofficial count of 167 of them shared their outrage at a rally and march in Reedsburg's downtown Sun...
coopmike48 nytimes.com - As labor battles erupt in state capitals around the nation, a majority of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against...
coopmike48 elections.firedoglake.com - With several new polls out about the fight in Wisconsin, the verdict is clear that recent Republican efforts to take away labor unions’ collective bargaining rights is very bad short-term politics ...
coopmike48 reason.com - Forget the pitifulpolling performance, the shucking of friendly legislators, the phone punk that will live in infamy. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's greatest gift to the left is hidden in plain sigh...
coopmike48 online.wsj.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in the midst of a standoff with state Senate Democrats, will propose a two-year budget Tuesday that's expected to cut more than $1 billion in state aid to schools and l...
coopmike48 newdeal20.org - Tuesday, 03/1/2011 - 11:22 am by Bryce Covert | Post a Comment The GOP may have been elected on the promise to focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, but so far the majority of its agenda has been to take away...
coopmike48 bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WEACvideo | Feb 28, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikesActor Bradley Whitford, a Madison native, addresses a rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol on Saturday, February 26, 2011. An estimated 100,000 people ...
coopmike48 thedailypage.com - On Monday morning, the Capitol was supposed to resume normal business hours, opening to the public at 8 a.m. But as week three of the protest began, protesters found themselves locked out of the bu...
coopmike48 bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In case you need more evidence...In case you need more evidence...by Mike KlonskyOnly five states do not allow collective bargaining for educators, effectively bannin...
coopmike48 newsjunkiepost.com - From @itsghastlycrew http://plixi.com/p/80913699 Defying a court order, Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) has locked out most of the public from his budget speech delivered at the state capitol where he...
coopmike48 badgerherald.com - Although representatives deny any connection to the recent prank call on the governor, two legislators began circulating a bill Monday that would ban making trick calls masking the caller’s true id...
coopmike48 dailypress.net - ESCANABA - Negotiating labor contracts is time consuming, headache producing, and tiring. Collective bargaining is negotiating between employee representatives and employer representatives. Without...
coopmike48 northjersey.com - Wis. schools face 9% cut MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker's explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers represents just one piece of his vision...
coopmike48 bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Save Our Schools March and National Call to ActionSave Our Schools March and National Call to Actionby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Hello,I’m teacherken. I am a teacher who also blogs, ...
coopmike48 cbsnews.com - CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.As debate rages in Wisconsin and other states over limiting the power of union...
coopmike48 democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Posted at the Motley Cow, this YouTube video of tea party ventriloquist dummies was soooo...cute, I had to add it to the discussion: Why Dummies Want to Forget the Tea Party Ancestry-
coopmike48 voices.washingtonpost.com - * Three national polls show scapegoating of public employees is a bust: We now have three big national polls showing that Americans back public employees in their standoffs with governors who would...
coopmike48 democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett would be governor if the election were held today, in what looks like a massive case of voter "buyers" remorse. (Reuters) - Wisconsin voters would narrowly favor Governo...
coopmike48 miamiherald.com - LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama on Monday waded into the labor standoff in Wisconsin and warned that the rights of public employees should not be infringed upon.Speaking to the National Govern...
coopmike48 gothamschools.org - The debate over the state’s seniority-based layoff system is sometimes portrayed as dividing young teachers at risk of losing their jobs under the current system and older teachers bent on protecti...
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