May 10, 2021 | MacIver News Service
House Democrats are pushing through a lot of radical bills this year. One of them is the so-called PRO-ACT, short for “Protecting the Right to Organize.” That would eliminate all state laws and other protections workers have from union organizers.
In Wisconsin it would mean the end of Act 10 and Right to Work. Act 10, alone, has saved state taxpayers $13.9 billion since it was enacted ten years ago.
Erica L. Jedynak, Director of Economic Opportunity at Americans for Prosperity, gives us the lowdown on this episode of the MacIver Newsmakers Podcast.
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The Wisconsin State Senate approved a series of bills to protect individual rights amidst the COVID crisis on Tuesday afternoon.
If the bills become law, government officials won’t be allowed to close churches or force people to get vaccinated. The senate also passed a bill that require Evers to produce a plan on getting state employees back to work, and another bill that would allow dentists to provide vaccinations.
All those provisions were included in the Assembly’s “COVID Relief Bill,” but the Senate stripped them out so Gov. Evers would sign it into law. However, those provisions were very important to conservative voters, so Senate Republicans reintroduced them as separate bills. (Eventually they would also add them back into the COVID Relief Bill.)
By: Bill Osmulski
It’s been ten years since Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican state legislature permanently fix the state’s financial crisis by passing Act 10. The root of the problem was in unsustainable collective bargaining agreements. It took a lot of courage to take on the unions, and they had no idea what they were in for. However, because they stuck to their principles, Wisconsin no longer faces a budget crisis every two years – it now enjoys regular budget surpluses.
The unions, and their Democrat allies, did everything they could think of to stop this from happened. They unleashed a mob on the capitol that occupied the building for three weeks and attempted to intimidate Republican lawmakers into caving. No matter how bad the situation got, Walker never called out the military and the police generally took a hands off approach to the situation.