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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:41 AM Feb 2015

Wisconsin: GOP leaders call for special session next week on right-to-work

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/gop-leaders-call-for-special-session-next-week-on-right-to-work-b99448708z1-292939361.html

Madison — Republican leaders are fast-tracking so-called right-to-work legislation with a special session, ignoring objections from Gov. Scott Walker and giving the clearest sign yet of how his influence has weakened in Wisconsin as he pursues the presidency outside the state.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said that the Legislature would call its own extraordinary session — a step that can be taken without action by the governor. The votes on the legislation could occur within a week, Republican lawmakers said, sending a strong message to the Republican governor and public that lawmakers will act on its own in his absence.

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But on right to work, the governor has taken a different tack and told lawmakers it would be a "distraction" from more important issues, even though Walker himself sponsored similar legislation two decades ago as a state lawmaker. His office had no immediate comment Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) kicked off the legislative session by saying the issue needed to be taken up quickly. Some of his fellow Republicans have expressed reservations about the plan. Speaking to conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes Friday morning, Fitzgerald said that he hadn't gotten got a commitment from the Republican governor that he would sign the legislation. Walker has consistently declined to say he would do so but few Republicans believe he would veto the measure. "Certainly we've had enough discussions that I'm confident the governor would sign it," Fitzgerald said.



As expected, the Urinal/Sentinel's article is full of distortions regarding right-to-work-for-less laws.
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riversedge

(69,731 posts)
6. All of a sudden it is fast tracted. Even Fitz said last month it would be
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:13 PM
Feb 2015

April before it was brought up. This makes me sick. Just more divisive politics. Walker hired his domestic and foreign policy advisers a few days ago. Whow. just whow!

midnight

(26,624 posts)
2. The Koch Brothers' fingerprints are all over "right to work" in Michigan. AFP's Foundation produced
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:58 PM
Feb 2015

a 15-page booklet: Unions: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: How Forced Unionization Has Harmed Workers and Michigan. The group recruited hundreds of protesters to counter working family-led rallies at the Capitol and promoted counter-protests on its website."

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/The-Shadowy-Trail-from-the-Koch-Brothers-to-Right-to-Work-for-Less-in-Michigan

HelenWheels

(2,284 posts)
3. Why do Union members want right to work
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:40 PM
Feb 2015

So the damn cheapskates don't have to pay Union dues. Seriously, Union workers at Greenheck in Wausau are in this bunch. They don't realize all they will lose and it will be more than $30/month.

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
8. It is beyond me...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:37 PM
Feb 2015

I know Corrections officers of the same stripe. Now they are feeling sorry for themselves and the rest of us suffer!

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
4. Wisconsin Republican leaders announce plans to fast-track right-to-work bill (updated)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:05 PM
Feb 2015


Madison.com Politics ?@MadPolitics 52m52 minutes ago

Wisconsin Republican leaders announce plans to fast-track right-to-work bill (updated)

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-republican-leaders-announce-plans-to-fast-track-right-to/article_e9fad3e7-3e65-5e99-8bf0-00a790a9dcce.html #wipolitics



...The extraordinary session news was first reported by Right Wisconsin on Friday morning.

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Walker's signature legislation, Act 10, prohibited that practice for most public-sector employees. Right-to-work policies would go a step further, affecting the private sector.

"You can't base your decision on whether or not the crowd shows up and it gets as ugly as Act 10," Fitzgerald told Sykes,
referencing the massive protests that resulted from Gov. Scott Walker's signature legislation.


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"They know this is the right thing to do," Fitzgerald said. "The senators know it."

Fitzgerald said he will be reaching out to Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, to tell her he thinks the Senate can get through it without the "mess" experienced in Act 10.

"It is absurd that Republicans would fast-track legislation to interfere with private business contracts and lower wages for all Wisconsin workers at a time when our state is facing a massive $2.2 billion budget crisis," Shilling said in a statement. "Objective polling clearly shows that the vast majority of Wisconsin residents view this issue as a distraction. Rather than creating economic uncertainty for Wisconsin families and small businesses, Republicans should focus their attention on boosting family wages, closing the skills gap and fixing the $2.2 billion budget crisis they created."

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Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-republicans-announce-plans-to-fast-track-right-to-work/article_e9fad3e7-3e65-5e99-8bf0-00a790a9dcce.html#ixzz3SJGtvbPK

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
5. Breaking News Scott Walker will sign right-to-work bill fast-tracking through Legislature ...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:06 PM
Feb 2015

This was in the RED streak across the top of the website!!





Scott Walker will sign right-to-work bill fast-tracking through Legislature


http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-will-sign-right-to-work-bill-fast-tracking/article_f17f5d6c-adc0-50ef-a9c8-4610e6daa5ca.html#ixzz3SJL1FVPV


50 minutes ago • By Matthew DeFour | Wisconsin State Journal, Dee J. Hall | Wisconsin State Journal
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Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-will-sign-right-to-work-bill-fast-tracking/article_f17f5d6c-adc0-50ef-a9c8-4610e6daa5ca.html#ixzz3SJLziJJP


Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, plans to hold an extraordinary session next week to pass a right-to-work bill.

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He said the bill would take effect soon after Walker signs it. Kapenga said the law would not affect existing contracts until they expire.
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Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, said in a statement: "It is absurd that Republicans would fast-track legislation to interfere with private business contracts and lower wages for all Wisconsin workers at a time when our state is facing a massive $2.2 billion budget crisis."

Sen. Janis Ringhand, D-Evansville, accused Republicans of trying to pass the bill "before the public has a chance to even see what they are trying to do."

"It is a cynical and cowardly move by legislative Republicans to lower the wages of everyone in Wisconsin except their own,” she said.

.................Business groups have lined up on both sides of the issues. Several hundred businesses have formed an informal group called Wisconsin Contractor Coalition to oppose right-to-work legislation. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state's largest business lobby, favors right to work.




Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-will-sign-right-to-work-bill-fast-tracking/article_f17f5d6c-adc0-50ef-a9c8-4610e6daa5ca.html#ixzz3SJLW30St





lutefisk

(3,974 posts)
10. Great video. He's just shameless in his refusal to answer the question.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:35 PM
Feb 2015

Then, he stated the bill wouldn't make it to his desk

Today, his spokeswoman states: "If this bill makes it to his desk, Governor Walker will sign it into law."

How was he supposed to know that wily Fitz & Vos would find a way to get it his desk?

And what the hell is wrong with people who vote for a slippery s.o.b. like Walker over a man like Tom Barrett?

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
11. I don't know why anyone not named Koch or Henricks would vote for Walker, but ...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:37 PM
Feb 2015

... neither Tom Barrett nor Mary Burke did anything to inspire left-leaning voters to the polls.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
13. Sadly prophetic words from the man who should be Governor Barrett
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:16 PM
Feb 2015

"If that bill hits his desk he's signing it."

And here we are.

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