Battle of Wisconsin

[August]

This is why Public Sector unions are a bad thing:

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/opi...cc4c03286.html

Timing, it is said, is everything. That includes bad timing.
Local 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, may well have garnered the prize in that department when they filed a grievance against the City of Racine for hiring outside contractors to help dig out from the Feb. 1-2 blizzard that overwhelmed southeast Wisconsin.
The union filed the grievance on Feb. 18. The headlines in the newspaper that day were "Senate Dems flee Capitol" -- headlines that marked the escalation of the fight over Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill that would strip many public sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights.
If he hasn't said it already, we wouldn't be surprised to see Gov. Walker point to the AFSCME grievance and say: "That's what I'm talking about."
It is a good example -- or actually a bad example -- of the difficulties municipalities have had in dealing with unions over work rules and contracts.