Collective bargaining is a basic human right. It’s actually in the Bill of Rights, right there in peaceable assembly and redress of grievances. Wisconsin gets this; Scott Walker doesn’t care, no matter how loud Wisconsin shouts.
MADISON, Wis. — Seeking a way to counter a growing protest movement, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker cited his email, confidently declaring that most people writing his office had urged him to eliminate nearly all union rights for state workers.
But an Associated Press analysis of the emails shows that, for close to a week, messages in Walker’s inbox were running roughly 2-to-1 against his plans. The tide did not turn in his favor until shortly after desperate Democrats fled the state to stop a vote they knew they would lose.
Walker has earned what’s coming to him.
