CMD Submits Testimony on Right to Work
CMD submits testimony outlining the ALEC ties to Wisconsin's right to work bill.
CMD submits testimony outlining the ALEC ties to Wisconsin's right to work bill.
As the Wisconsin legislature gets ready to ram through a union-busting bill that will significantly impact the economy of the entire state, Wisconsin's newest member of the Senate asked perhaps the most pertinent question of her Republican colleagues: "what beating hearts are for this bill?"
On Thursday, Walker told a crowd that the peaceful 2011 Uprising could be compared to responding as a commander in chief to the decapitations and rogue Islamic fury of ISIS.
Here are the faces of some of those protesters that Walker "took on" in 2011, which he says will prepare him for confronting a group known for beheadings and burning people alive.
An ALEC "scholar" says that an ALEC right-to-work law will be great for Wisconsin. Economists disagree.
Americans for Prosperity's statewide ad buy in support of Right-to-Work comes as no surprise to Wisconsinites.
In his opening statement, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) claimed that right to work legislation would "protect every worker" from being forced to join a union.
Wisconsin state legislators will meet in an "extraordinary session" today in order to take up so-called "right to work" legislation.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word-for-word copy of the ALEC "model" Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC-inspired anti-union measures in recent years.
By Steve Arnold, an alderman from Fitchburg, Wisconsin
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