Dear striking teachers in Wisconsin...

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Its good to see that wisconsins firefighters are joinimg the protests objecting to the legislation even though they are not targeted by the proposal.

Because they're union...

Sure, we all would complain if we had to take less. They want their power to negotiate, yet still force all non union employees to pay union dues.
The fact remains the large majority of voters there support Walker.

The large majority of us don't get high union wages. If the private sector had the wages, pensions and benefits of unions, we couldn't compete in the global market. The fact remains, the private citizens that pay these perks ,we or the employers that hire us can't even give them to us, but not only do we do without, we must pay it for you. To ask for them to pay a small percent for these benefits isn't much. If they want the right to renegotiate, they're gonna have to give up unfair items. This is just a start, with all local and state governments going broke or bankrupt, unions will soon be reduced to the wages and benefits of the private sector.

No doubt the GOP push of corporate elitism has destroyed decent wages and benefits for private america. It's also made it impossible for the private sector to support the large perks and wages of unions in the public sector.
I have no problem with unions that are non public that want to pay all these perks based on the money they make. Unions have no business in the public sector.

I'm afraid unions will slowly fade in the future due to corporate elitism in a global economy that our politicians make work for everyone but the US middle class.