Teabagger Destructive Wet Dreams Becoming Reality?

[milwaukeelib33]

WEAC issues layoff notices to 40% of staff

By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel

Aug. 15, 2011 12:02 p.m. |(208) Comments

Layoff notices have been issued to about 40% of the Wisconsin Education Association Council workforce, a total of 42 employees who work for the state's largest teachers union, Executive Director Dan Burkhalter confirmed Monday.

Burkhalter said that the layoffs and other budget cuts at WEAC are a result of Gov. Scott Walker's "union-busting" legislation.

“Right now we’re engaged in membership continuation campaigns," Burkhalter said in a statement. "We’ve made steady progress in signing up members and we anticipate further progress will be made as the school year resumes. Despite budget cuts and layoffs, our goal remains the same: to be a strong and viable organization that represents the voices of Wisconsin’s public school employees.”

The organization has been working to stay relevant in a time when state legislation has severely clipped the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public workers. The legislation makes it illegal for local teachers unions to electronically deduct dues from the payroll of teachers, and local unions also have to hold re-certification votes.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/127751463.html

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This makes me sick. These MF'ers and their union busting tactics are going to lead to the extermination of the middle class in WI. While Scottie gives away millions to his business buddies, those in charge of educating our future generation are taking the hit and their bargaining rights are gone. WTF has happened to this state that I've been a lifelong resident of and care about deeply? Sad, sad, sad...

Word of warning, stay away from the comment section until your lunch has fully settled. It's amazingly disturbing.

On a more positive note, the article states union reps are working sign up continuing membership. I was aware of this and I believe they've been working on it for a month or two now. IMO, it's critical to get these members to sign on. Maybe even a life or death situation for strong labor that has been a tradition in WI since long before I was around.

Hopefully their efforts are being more successful than the story would lead one to believe. Ugh. Backward, Wisconsin.

[Yon_Yonson]

1. So why the hell are we sitting on our collective arse

The unions have the rank and file and I for one have been standing shoulder to shoulder with unions and non unions alike since the first snow fall in February.

WI unions can call a general strike and shut this state down. Hurt Herr Walker and his NEOCON cohorts in their pocketbooks and make them bleed greenback. Attack their income because it is the only thing they understand!

CALL A GENERAL STRIKE and show the world that Wisconsin not only has smarts but also gonads. Show the world that Herr Walker is the best GAW DAMN union organizer the U.S.of A. has ever seen.

[Yon_Yonson]

2. Take a look at this United Steel Workers Video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x609632

[CatholicEdHead]

3. I am amazed how nasty the JSonline comments are

I have seen similar styles in the Minneapolis Startribune. They are so mean spirited and just uncalled for in a public forum. I guess it shows what monsters right wing talk radio and Fox News can do to us if we listen long enough and loose empathy towards others.

[Yon_Yonson]

4. I don't read because I beleive they are out off state agitators

pissed of NEOCONS and teabaggers not worth of my time!