we could be in madison tonight and vote for it. senator, as you know over the last few decades, union membership as a proportion of the labor force has declined. but the one place it has gotten a foot hold, a stronger foot hold is in government and state workers. if these union rules go through, new negotiating rules go through, which in effect remove the union s ability to negotiate anything significant that actually kind of puts the negotiations on auto pilot, limits them to costs, inflation level increases, it in effect eliminates the need for a union. this encourages other legislatures republican controlled to do the exact same thing around the country, if state workers and state worker unions are so threatened, isn t this the most serious harm that could possibly come to the
there that once we fall, if we fall, which i don t think we re going to fall, but i think the governor has credit. i don t know if anyone in the history has done more to work the unit more than him. the employees are all in this together. that galvinizing of the unions comes because of what i think is the most serious threat, the american labor movement has faced in its lost history, it s long history has been one of generally forward progress. this would be, as far as i can tell, the most serious reversal in its history. if you know the state of wisconsin, and i know you do, we re known for packers, our cheese, dairy products, and also as a strong pro-worker state.
salary, i would say that is meeting the governor halfway. the governor of wisconsin is doing what he can. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget, he is setting out to break a union. we are going to find out whether the governor thinks that he can really jam this thing down through the legislature. we plan to stay here right now until the governor responds. how much longer can this go on though? a crack in the republican wall as a lone gop state senator proposes a compromise. the governor still says no. you cannot have a short-term fix. no compromise on backing off the bill. only 14 democratic state senators in wisconsin stand in the way of the end of the american labor movement as we know it. this could be a watershed, waterloo moment. do not destroy decades of work that allow workers to speak for themselves. this is to stand up for working people in the state of wisconsin.
the governor of wiv whiscons doing what he can. he s not setting out just to fix a budget. he s setting out to break a uniwherein. we re going to find out whether the governor thinks he can jam this thing down through the legislature. we plan to stay here, right now, until the governor responds. how much longer can it go on? a crack in the wall as the gop senator proposes a compromise. the governor still says no. no compromise on backing off the bill. only 14 democratic state senators in wisconsin stand in the way of the end of the american labor movement as we know it. this could be a watershed moment for the union. do not destroy decades of work for workers to speak for themselves. the world as we know it in
union membership as a portion of the labor force has declined, but the one place where it has gotten a foothold is in government and state workers. if these eupian rules go through, the new nonnegotiating rules go through, which in effect remove the union s ability to negotiate anything significant, it limits them to a cost of flight level, that sort of thing, and in reality, it seems to encourage the lack of a union. they re controlled to do exactly the same thing around the country. if state workers and state worker unions are so threatened, isn t this the most serious harm that could possibly come to the american labor movement at this point? absolutely. i agree with you, and i think wisconsin is the biggest domino in the chain of 50 dominos out