Walker’s Victory Spells Doom For Public Sector Unions

June 6, 2012 05:28


[T]he governor’s recall election victory sends a clear message that should resonate around the nation: The fiscal cancer devouring state budgets has a cure, and he has found it.- Forbes

 

Obama and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

 

By Bill Frezza at Forbes


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Today, Greece sets the example of what happens when public sector unions gain the upper hand.

 

The projected cost of supporting Baby Boomer union retirees now threatens to bankrupt the state, as it does many others.

 

The state budget has been balanced.  The unemployment rate has been dropping and is now below the national average. Property taxes are down. … The government has stopped forcibly collecting union dues from workers’ paychecks.

Best of all, the myth that union bosses represent their members’ interests has been exposed as a lie. Now that union dues are voluntary, tens of thousands of union members have stopped paying them.

 

Chicago machine candidate Barack Obama rode into office to the tune of Hail to the Chief, promising the unions that backed him the gift of card check elections, ending the secret ballot that shields employees from union intimidation. He may well ride into retirement to the tune of On Wisconsin as the era of closed shop unionism comes to an end.

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