Thursday, January 19, 2012

UNION’S LAST STAND GOING WELL ? « Teachers Fight Back

UNION’S LAST STAND GOING WELL ? « Teachers Fight Back:

UNION’S LAST STAND GOING WELL ?

A Golden Chalk Award goes out to all the volunteers in Wisconsin who are fighting to save the last hope of labor unions. Organizers of the move to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said they filed more than one million signatures with election officials demanding a new election. The total represents nearly half of all the votes cast in the 2010 race for governor that Walker won and nearly twice the number of signatures required.

Governor Walker and his millionaire friends were trying to strike the death knell for public worker unions like those of teachers, policemen and firefighters. Walker moved to crush unions by doing away with their collective bargaining rights and by cutting funds that went to employ such people. The last decade has seen union