Thursday, March 10, 2011

SW.org: "Do or Die in Wisconsin"

Do or die in Wisconsin

With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker poised to sign a bill gutting public-sector union power, organized labor must use its power now, argues Lee Sustar.

Crowds of people gathered in furious protest as lawmakers rammed through Scott Walker's union-busting assault

Crowds of people gathered in furious protest as lawmakers rammed through Scott Walker's union-busting assault

AFTER THREE weeks of demonstrations and an occupation of the Capitol building, the labor battle in Wisconsin was coming to a head after Gov. Scott Walker's Republican allies suddenly rammed through legislation aimed at gutting the bargaining power of public-sector unions and crippling them financially.

The question now is whether unions will push back with the kind of job actions that launched the biggest labor mobilization in decades--or allow Walker to drive a legislative steamroller over half a century of public-sector unionism in Wisconsin....