{"id":2888,"date":"2011-03-09T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2011-03-09T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:27:42","slug":"dairyland_shena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"Dairyland Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Republicans just upped the ante<\/a> in their fight to strip collective bargaining rights from public unions. In a devious bit of parliamentary maneuvering, Republicans stripped the anti-union provisions out of the “budget repair” bill and placed them in a standalone bill. Since the standalone bill has no budget implications, it can be passed in the absence of the Wisconsin state senators who decamped to Illinois to deny the Republicans a quorum.<\/p>\n

This latest move undermines the Republicans’ talking point that the collective bargaining provisions are needed to balance the budget. The real goal has always been to destroy unions as a political force in the state. Governor Walker and his allies may finally get their way, but this very public battle has revealed their true intentions. They are determined to transform Wisconsin into a state where the interests of corporations reign supreme while workers in both the public and private sectors are slapped around by the unforgiving invisible hand of the free market. <\/p>\n

It’s important to remember that this is what Wisconsin voters chose. Walker and his ilk made no secret of their contempt for organized labor and a host of other Democratic constituencies, including the poor and people with disabilities. If they don’t like watching their state being transformed into a Randian utopia, they should have considered that possibility on Election Day. Perhaps the lesson to be learned from all this is that every election matters, not just the ones where we choose a president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Republicans just upped the ante in their fight to strip collective bargaining rights from public unions. In a devious bit of parliamentary maneuvering, Republicans stripped the anti-union provisions out of the “budget repair” bill and placed them in a standalone bill. Since the standalone bill has no budget implications, it can be passed in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-KA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}