that s right. they re still out from yesterday. it s time for the radio rumble! wisconsin governor scott walker wants to take collective bargaining rights away from unions and it s all part of his budget repair bill but is all the attention on this budget battle actually making the labor unions stronger? for what america thinks, we turn to our radio rumble, screen left right there. you have chris plant from milwaukee. james t. harris, center square and from detroit, nancy skinner. good morning to all of you. good morning. all right. nancy, let s start with you. is what walker is doing in wisconsin making labor stronger and uniting them or undermining them? i think they re getting stronger because there is a call to action now. whenever you attack someone s rights, fundamental rights, these people are going to get out in the streets and the news coverage is going to be drawn to them and then when people really understand what s going on here, that this is just about trying
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could be arrest first-degred if back into the border of wisconsin. that was a big step back and there was a lot of frustration. we will be again be reaching out to see if we can pick up where we left off thursday afternoon and move forward. we need to be able to focus on the issues at hand. taking away our parking spaces or having us arrested, the issue is to come to a resolution over collective bargaining. was that the thing that derailed it? they passed a measure that said you could possibly be arrested? was that really what derailed the negotiation? well, we were talking to governor walker, and he was saying one thing and the republican lawmakers were saying no, let s arrest them. we re trying to come to resolution over this issue of collective bargaining in the budget repair bill in order to move forward. another thing here, governor walker says his administration was getting close, at least with five senate democrats to working out a deal but that the senate minority leader,
reach out. in terms of how this might end, what would you need to hear from governor walker or from the republicans in order to get you back. what are you waiting to hear? that s a good question. we would like to hear that they are honest efforts to bring resolution to this. we have been up front about why we are here and up front about what we would like to see change in the budget repair bill or the state budget starting to come back as well. there a couple of ways to get out of here. you can take an amendment to restore a lot of what governor walker wanted to take away. the other option is collective bargaining as a whole. we are not bunling and they are not budging. take out that language and put it in the budget and debate that for the next three months. that will be done through the normal process. a couple of committee hearings and they will be able to weigh in and they will be done in the light of day and face-to-face.
senator, you joined the governor at the press conference today. i want the audience to hear what you said in response to senator miller s letter. i want to be clear. this is beyond the budget repair bill. that is something that i ve been sayingรง since the beginning, tt we are not flexible on that piece. what i offered to these jurors that first day when i met with them, i said listen, we can do a motion in the finance committee to address these later on. they agreed, they shook their head, that s a good idea, that s what we should do. the letter is frustrating. i don t know whose in charge, you don t know if labor is pulling the strings. you don t know how to get the negotiation done. senator, you and the governor seem to be saying in the press conference that you felt that three your secret discussions you had a deal with the senate democrats. was that your feeling coming out of the discussions? absolutely, lawrence. on two separate occasions i was