Wolf Blitzer was just on claiming that the pollong is very close, something like 52-48. Says it with a straight face and they even put up the graphic....but apparently someone forgot to tell them that actual vote totals were directly below this showing a 60-39 Walker advantage. And to think CNN is the most central of the leftist news orgs.!
You know that unions in Wisconsion still have collective bargining rights concerning wages...... All Walker did was to remove collective rights for Unions to determine job roles. Example: A streetlamp needs a new lightbulb, the union would not allow the crew to drive their service truck, they were required to have a special driver who sat in the truck while the workers changed the bulb.
Union busting? GREAT. Even the late great FDR progressives hail as a social revolutionary, opposed public sector unions because the adversarial relationship between politicians and Guv employees doesn't exist. Candidates pander to unions in exchange for votes, all at the taxpayers expense. I'm all for private sector unions - free association guaranteed by the Constitution. But I'm also for Right to Work, and the power to shit-can striking workers, and hire new ones. Remove power from one side of the equation, and the other side takes control. Traditionally, this has meant workers voting for union protections (right to indefinite strike without recourse), which puts all the cards in workers hands and leaves employers pissing in the wind.
Btw, Kuncinich is wrong, and Walker was misquoted, imo. Public sector collective bargaining IS a fiscal issue, with obvious effects.