Tag: public employees
Kelly Wilz: An Open Letter to Those Who Hate Teachers
What follows is a blog by Kelly Wilz originally posted at Dissent and Cookies and reprinted here with her permission. When I graduated from college, I, like many graduates, had no clue what I wanted to do with my life. I was medically cleared to go to West Africa to…
Guest Blog: Is this the end of Wisconsin’s civil service?
What follows is a guest blog by Joanne Brown. Is this the end of Wisconsin’s civil service? Yet another surprise tucked away into the Walker budget bill could mean the end of Wisconsin’s civil service system as we know it. The budget calls for the Office of State Employee Relations…
VIDEO: Scott Walker compares peaceful labor protesters to ISIS terrorists
While addressing attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker was asked by an audience member to explain how he’d deal with the threat of the ISIS if he were elected president. Walker started his response by noting he receives FBI threat briefings from his adjutant…
Non-Profit Voucher School Is Out Of Whack On Salary
Ignoring the rest of the story about being on super secret double probation, here is something totally out of whack at a local private voucher school – this school has just over 600 students – yet the lead administrator has a total compensation package of $218,000: (Dorothy) Travis Moore (founder…
Walker administration moves to change civil service laws
Back in 2011, Gov. Scott Walker made it clear that while he wanted to cripple public employee unions through the passage of Act 10, public employees would still have some of the strongest civil service protections in the country. At the time Gov. Walker unambiguously stated civil service laws would…
Justin Moralez on anti-public employee Act 10: “there is a residual effect on families”
Last week I noted Republican State Assembly candidate Justin Moralez had not answered (after a week) a question I asked regarding his stance on Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s notorious anti-public employee legislation, and shortly after I posted about the fact that Moralez had not answered my question, he sent…
Mary Burke, Scott Walker, and Kathleen Vinehout seem to agree on one thing
As reported by Jack Craver in the CapTimes, there’s one thing Democrats Mary Burke & Kathleen Vinehout and Republican Scott Walker seem to agree on: public employees should continue to pay increased health insurance and pension contributions. Although Mary Burke, the only declared Democratic candidate for governor, has said she…
Dems in legislature to introduce bill to restore collective bargaining for public employees
From my email inbox: MADISON – State Representatives Chris Taylor (D-Madison), Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) announced today they will introduce a bill to reinstate the collective bargaining rights Governor Walker and legislative Republicans stripped from public workers last legislative session. “I helped implement collective bargaining in…
Scott Walker really really respects public employees!
Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Unintimidated (emphasis added): As he recalls in Unintimidated, he began a televised fireside chat during the Capitol protests “by making clear my respect for public workers.” Except there’s this (again with emphasis added). According to the governor’s new book, Walker read the list — written…
Alberta Darling “really hoping” to include firefighters and police officers in Act 10 limitations
Fresh off the heels of Gov. Scott Walker indicating he wouldn’t be opposed to extending the anti-union provisions of Act 10 to police officers and firefighters, Republican State Sen. Alberta Darling has said she hopes police officers and firefighters will be open to accepting the strict limits on collective bargaining…
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