Democrats need to keep restoration of collective bargaining in the political dialogue so it doesn’t become an afterthought

Earlier this week I wrote about the fact that not one single Democratic State Senator had listed the restoration of collective bargaining rights for public employees as a legislative priority in the next session of the State Senate, and I also noted Senate Majority Leader Mark Miller’sstatement affirming Senate Democrats’ support for the restoration of collective bargaining rights for public employees.

However, while some might be assuaged by Sen. Miller’s press release, John “Sly” Sylvester of WTDY’s “Sly In The Morning” radio show isn’t buying what Sen. Miller is selling, because he knows what most folks know – a press release is just words on paper. During a segment of “Sly In The Morning” this morning, John Nichols made an excellent point about the restoration of collective bargaining rights for public employees, opining that if Senate Democrats don’t continue to educate the public about why the restoration of collective bargaining rights for public employees would be a good thing for the rest of Wisconsin’s citizens, they run the very real risk that folks will start to forget about the issue entirely, relegating it to nothing more than an afterthought and making any future efforts to restore those rights easier to defeat.

Here’s the segment from “Sly In The Morning.”

I’ve made it abundantly clear that I believe President Barack Obama has been a traitor to organized labor here in Wisconsin, but despite President Obama turning his back on public employees here in Wisconsin, I’m confident Democrats in the State Senate will continue to fight as best they can to restore collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Democurmudgeon has an excellent take on this.

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4 thoughts on “Democrats need to keep restoration of collective bargaining in the political dialogue so it doesn’t become an afterthought

  1. Unions should find a good PR firm and ad agency and use their PAC money to make the case for public and private Union bargaining rights on behalf of all Democratic candidates…provided any of the leadership knows how to evaluate such agencies.

    Demand creation precedes job creation.

  2. That train has left the station sunshine. No rational Wisconsites have the slighest interest in going back to the bad old days of union control of our state. Best of luck in generating that support

  3. As a conservative, I too think that Democrats should continue to push for Collective Bargaining restoration. Use it in campaigns, force national offices to support and above all…protest.

  4. Yes, we definitely need to keep pushing for the restoration of CB rights. We need to protest special olympic ceremonies, withhold student recommendations, leave school every day at 3:01, bitch-and-moan to the parents, act like jackasses ALL the time, call in sick and go to Madison instead, dump beer on legislators heads, scream while the governor is giving a speech, boycott businesses, heckle the hell out of anyone who opposes us, cut ourselves off from our families and friends, stuff like that.

    It worked so well last time let’s keep doing it, comrades. RECALL WALKER, UNITED WISCONSIN!

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