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come back with something else. he says now this is creating right to choose for workers, this is his response and he believes it will take michigan on the path to prosperity. you see all the people out here right now, they believe it will not, they believe it will ultimately lead to decreased rights, and safety, and benefits, decreased wages for workers skwhrao w. martha: wear looking at an i am an educator, i am union sign. they are very unhappy that teaches are out there protesting instead of in the classroom today. the governor said, our concern is the students first, we have to look out for the children in many ways before the adults. big, big, big dispute brewing in michigan. these pictures are incredible. we ll keep on them. despite the uproar union popularity in michigan does appear to have declined in recent years, last year 671,000 workers belonged to a union, that is just 17.5% of the workforce. it s down from 40% at the start of the organized labor movement
to performance. so this notion there is this collaboration between the unions and obama administration is laughable. did you not watch your convention in charlotte? i. i watched my convention. i did watch my convention. all i side union sign after union sign. they are supporting the president as alternative to mitt romney. doesn t mean they agree with everything he is advancing but prefer him to mitt romney. that is why they supported, they support the obama administration. jon: ironies are so thick here. chicago is the president s adoptive hometown. yeah. jon: his former chief of staff is the mayor. his education secretary comes from there. and yet, when 400,000 students have no place to go because the teachers union is on strike, the president doesn t have an opinion on that? well, jon, the fact of the matter way it works as you both know, unions and administrators and in cities and public unions, you know, in scott walker case come together when they have an issue over s
higher. protesters filling the streets. the governor warns as many as 12,000 public workers could get a pink slip. mike tobin life in madison, wisconsin. mike, let me see there, looks like there is still folks there, protesting in full gear, looks like, despite the snow. still quite a few yeah. snow did nothing to dampen the sense of urgency here. the numbers are kind of drawing down as we look around. this big line that you see right now, these are people who are walking into the capital rotunda. the people on the outside just past them are the people who are march not guilty a circle around the capital itself. you can see the sky up here on the pillar with the flag. he s got the state employees union sign with him. the snow did nothing to dampen the sense of urgency that these people are feeling right now because they know the only thing that is standing between this legislation and passage are the 14 senators who went over state