Death Throes

Walker's Law

This is an excellent article on the slow death of public sector unions, very germane to the goings on in Wisconsin, and in other states.

From Jack Kelly, writing for the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:

It isn't the modest cuts in contributions to health and pension plans in Gov. Walker's bill labor leaders object to most. It isn't even the restriction of collective bargaining to wages only. It's the provision which makes payment of union dues voluntary.

This is a body blow to Democrats, too. They depend heavily on unions to fill their campaign coffers.

And that is the clincher. What existed for so long was the equivalent of a money laundering scheme, whereby union dues were automatically deducted from the employees' paycheck and funneled right into the coffers of the Democratic Party. Walker's law changes that by making donations of the individual union member voluntary. The left knew that, as a result of Walker's brilliant and overdue law, their decades-old shell game would be shattered, and hence, the collective apoplexy and tantrums that took over Madison.