The Wisconsin Labor Fight: An Attack on Women, Too - Dana Goldstein #wiunion #killthebill #solidarityWI

The Wisconsin Labor Fight: An Attack on Women, Too - Dana Goldstein

The Wisconsin Labor Fight: An Attack on Women, Too

by Dana Goldstein

photo courtesy of the AFSCME women's history project

The Wisconsin GOP's war on public sector unions--except those representing police officers, firefighters, and state troopers--is not only a craven attack on the Democratic base, but sexist, too, since predominantly male professions are deliberately protected while female ones are targeted.

About 80 percent of American teachers, for example, are female; at the