I have been casually observing the Collective Bargaining thing that seems to be att he root of the whole Wisconsin thing. Most of my information comes from my own research, or from mainstream media. I am very not interested in extreme left or right talk radio.
So - I decided I'd take a look at the law changes that started this whole thing to get a direct, un-politically-polluted plain english description of the changes. I don't really care about who funded what or what crybaby got his feelings hurt - I am just interested in what the real change was. I ended up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_Act_10 Assuming the wikipedia article is correct (admitting it may have flaws) there are alot of changes, but the items under collective bargaining are: *"Collective Bargaining:* The bill would make various changes to limit collective bargaining <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining> for most public employees to wages. Total wage increases could not exceed a cap based on the consumer price index<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index> (CPI) unless approved byreferendum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum>. Contracts would be limited to one year and wages would be frozen until the new contract is settled. Collective bargaining units are required to take annual votes to maintain certification as a union. Employers would be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units would not be required to pay dues. These changes take effect upon the expiration of existing contracts. Local law enforcement and fire employees, and state troopers and inspectors would be exempt from these changes." None of these sound unreasonable to me. If I work somewhere that's unionized but I don't want to be part of the union or pay dues, now I don't have to. The union has to have a valid reason to exist once a year by vote (which should be super easy for any worthwhile union). Wage increases are pegged to CPI - this all seems very reasonable to me. Perhaps there is an additional item I am missing? Does anyone have any links to a good (neutral) alternate summary of the law that has something else worse in there? -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
