Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill

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http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/02/12743/wisconsin-introduces-verbatim-alec-right-work-bill

Wisconsin Republicans have called a special session to take up a "right to work" measure attacking private sector unions--and the text of the bill, the Center for Media and Democracy has discovered, is taken word-for-word from American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model legislation.

See the side-by-side of the Wisconsin legislation and the ALEC bill here.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a former ALEC state chairman, says that the legislature has the votes to enact the measure, which undermines collective bargaining by allowing workers to opt-out of paying the costs of union representation. Right to work laws are associated with lower wages for both union and non-union workers.

Fitzgerald has long supported right to work, and in the past hasn't been shy about describing the ALEC connection. In December 2010, after Republicans took control of the legislature, he was asked by Jeff Mayers of WisPolitics about making Wisconsin a right to work state.

Fitzgerald replied: "I just attended an American Legislative Exchange Council meeting and I was surprised about how much momentum there was in and around that discussion, nothing like I have seen before." See the video here.

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ALEC writes virtually ALL RW legislation. The intent is to destroy the middle class & RW pawn legislators just sign what is directed of them to sign. Not only is this a travesty for Wisconsinites and our beautiful state it is an example of how the RW rolls. Its a prime example.

[CincyDem]

1. We've outsourced just about everything else, why not governing ??

These guys are such fleabags. Of course they don't have time to write legislation, they're too busy raising more campaign funds for the next so called election.