i don't trust this: Moderate Wisconsin Republicans Offer Compromise

[kpete]

With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate that has drawn thousands of protesters to the state capital for a sixth straight day.

The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public employee unions to be eliminated – per Mr. Walker's bill – but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultzs's chief of staff Todd Allbaugh.

"Dale is committed to find a way to preserve collective bargaining in the future," said Mr. Allbaugh in a telephone interview.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703498804576156964112764614.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories

[Richardo]

1. Once collective bargaining is gone it's never coming back...

Don't fall for it, Wisconsin.

[TomClash]

2. In a word

NO!

[Frustratedlady]

3. Snake oil is back in vogue, eh? Who'da thunk? EOM

[Canuckistanian]

4. No deal. Once those collective bargaining rights are gone, it's a massacre

The State would slash wages and benefits so much, the unions would NEVER be able to fight back to a decent wage and benefit level for a decade or more.

The Unions MUST hold firm. If they give up, this WILL be used to bust unions EVERYWHERE.

[LiberalFighter]

5. That is not negotiating in good faith.

But Republicans have never been know to negotiate in good faith.

[xchrom]

6. 'i'll only put it in for a little bit.' nt

[Brickbat]

7. NO. Once they're gone, they're not coming back without a huge bloody fight.

So we can have the fight now to keep them, or we can have the fight later.

[LiberalAndProud]

8. Tuesday. We'll get paid on Tuesday.

[HereSince1628]

9. There is no budgetary reason to eliminate the unions for one day

As I peered at that slippery slope I couldn't imagine any of the WI 14 deciding that was the right thing to bring them back from the flee-a-buster.

[nebenaube]

10. non-starter.... n/t

[alterfurz]

11. exactly like the way the Patriot Act and Bush Tax Cuts were sunsetted!

oh, wait...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. What's eliminating collective bargaining rights going to achieve anyway?

What's getting rid of it for two years only going to achieve? I don't get this. :shrug:

[Scruffy1]

13. What a dishonest weasel-union busting BS

The bill wouldn't affect the current budget anyhow. as a matter of fact it has nothing to do with the budget.

[eleny]

14. My bullshit meter exploded