Wisconsin's local governments never asked to end collective bargaining, as Scott Walker contends

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Source: ISTHMUS

Gov. Scott Walker has said he wants to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees in part to give local governments and school boards the authority to make unilateral adjustments to pensions and other benefits.

As he said at his press conference last Friday, "To protect our schools, to protect our local governments, we need to give them the tools they've been asking for, not just for years but for decades."

But local governments and school officials have asked for no such thing."Our position is we've sought significant modifications in bargaining laws, but we've never sought to eliminate collective bargaining rights," says Miles Turner, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators.

In fact, the association, which represents almost all of the state's 424 school districts, doesn't want to do away with collective bargaining.

Read more: http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=32392

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"The governor gave us a great deal more flexibility than we asked for," says Dan Thompson, executive director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, which represents 190 cities and 393 villages.

BUSTED!!!

[ejpoeta]

1. it's not the truth that matters, it's what the media spins it as and puts it out there as.

and right now they are spinning greedy public workers. wish we had actual fucking journalists. we do.... but they get drowned out by the corporate media.

[Kingofalldems]

2. K and R all Pro Union threads

[underpants]

3. 1. create an annual debt and then blame everyone else 2. flat out lie about what other people say

#2 is a strawman but there actually is a person to refute it

[alterfurz]

4. Walker plans MASSIVE cuts in state aid to school districts and municipalities...

...meaning they will either have to raise property taxes and/or cut costs. Eliminating those pesky labor contracts will make cutting worker & teacher wages and benefits much easier and more attractive than raising taxes.

[aquart]

5. Walker is a lying, Kochhead puppet.

He will do whatever his inherited-wealth masters desire never mind how dishonest.

[CLANG]

7. Walker is a lying Koch Sucker!

[glinda]

8. Walker is a total mindless tool of the Koch Brothers.

[No Elephants]

11. Who themselves are tools (albeit far from mindless).

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6. Walker is complete slime. What a sick man.

Maybe we can have him committed.

[nolabear]

9. Keep talking, Walker.

[No Elephants]

10. Oh, noes, a Republicon misrepresented!!!11111!!! This is HUGH!11!!!

[idrahaje]

12. had no idea ISTHMUS was still around.

Being stuck in Iowa for a decade makes Wisconsin where I love to be seem far away :(

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13. Actually, They are doing quite well and The Onion moved to New York.

I think I still have an original The Onion business card floating around some place.

[Javaman]

14. You mean asshole walker is lying? if find that hard to believe. hard to believe. nt