(from United Students Against Sweatshops)
By Heather Chow and Elyse Kite
The people in Wisconsin as well as many around the United States were outraged about Governor Walker’s decision to take away bargaining rights from a majority of public employees. Protesters, which included students, teachers, firemen, and even people from other states, came together to try to stop Walker’s attack on unions. It is one thing for Governor Walker to try and cut costs by taking money from unions in order to close the state’s budget gap, but it is a travesty to take away the unions’ collective bargaining rights. In fact, in an interview with Obama from NBC news, Obama went on to say: “As a general proposition everyone has got to make some adjustments to new physical realities and if we want to avoid layoffs which I want to avoid…I think those kinds of adjustments are the right things to do. On the other hand some of what I heard coming out of Wisconsin, where you are just making it harder to public employees to collectively bargain generally seems like more of an assault on unions.” Read the rest of this entry »
