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Related: About this forumWisconsin: Breaking-Video of Walker One Week Before Election Promising to Negotiate With Unions
http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/breaking-video-walker-one-week-election-promising-negotiate-unioFootage of an Oshkosh Northwestern's editorial board meeting with Scott Walker, which took place one week before the 2010 election, has just been released.
In the hour long video, which I have edited down below, Walker has a back-and-fourth with an editorial board member that went like this:
Editorial Board Member: Before, we were talking about state employees contributing to their plan, paying their share of the pension plarn. Collective bargaining come into that?
Walker: Yep (nodding yes)
Editorial Board Member: How do you get that negotiated and accepted by the state employee unions?
Walker: You still have to negotiate it. I did that at the county as well.
Walker then goes on to say that he has used furloughs as a bargaining tool at the county level and that "we'd approach a similar strategy for the state," but said that he was open to compromise, saying "we're not locked into saying it has to be exactly the same" and that if unions could provide alternative routes to saving money he would be willing to explore those ideas.
Previously, it had been documented that, despite Scott Walker's claims to the contrary, that he had not campaigned on ending collective bargaining. This, however, goes one step further and documents that Walker had not only not said he wasn't going to end collective bargaining -- he explicitly promised to negotiate-- via collective bargaining-- with public sector unions before the election!
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Wisconsin: Breaking-Video of Walker One Week Before Election Promising to Negotiate With Unions (Original Post)
Scuba
Mar 2012
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MiniMe
(21,718 posts)1. Yawn. Nobody believes you about that Scott.
You have already proven what you are and what you stand for.
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)2. Wonder why
...it took this long to release the video?
You'd think a news organization (is the Oshkosh Northwestern a good news organization?) would
have had some faint glimmer of awareness that the taped interview had some statements of interest?
Maybe someone else stumbled across the clip, more recently -- or it would have remained lost?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. I also wondered...
... in any case, it's good to have been found.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)4. No, the Northwestern isn't a good news organization.
Not at all.