red states rule
12-09-2014, 04:27 PM
After beating the Dems and union goons three times - now Scott Walker goes for the gold
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has accomplished quite a lot over the past four years. He's won three elections; getting elected in 2010, decisively defeating (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/06/05/hold) a recall effort that attracted national attention, and prevailing (http://townhall.com/election/2014/governor/wi/county) by a fair comfortable margin in November's (re)-re-election campaign. On a policy level, he's won the two biggest fights he's picked, enacting his controversial and successful (http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/08/12/its-working-in-wisconsin-high-court-upholds-act-10/) 'Act 10' budget reforms in 2011 -- which touched off massive protests and the ill-fated recall push -- and signing (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-set-to-sign-tax-cut-legislation-b99231851z1-251936261.html) a large tax cuts package (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/give-the-surplus-back-to-wisconsin-taxpayers-b99189017z1-241915501.html) earlier this year. Now that he's been handed his third mandate in four years, Walker has a decision to make: Will he follow the lead of Republicans in the state legislature and champion a right-to-work law? The governor has labeled the initiative "a distraction (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-says-right-to-work-bill-would-be-a-distraction-b99403657z1-284897331.html)," but hasn't ruled out (http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Walker-wont-promise-veto-of-right-to-work-284925351.html) signing a bill if it ends up on his desk. The Washington Examiner's editors urge Badger State leaders to follow through (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wisconsin-should-pass-right-to-work/article/2557059) on the idea:
Elections have consequences, and Scott Fitzgerald, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate, wants one of those consequences to be a state right-to-work law. Wisconsin is one of three states without such a law where Republicans have effective control over the legislative process for at least the next two years. Right-to-work, which lets workers choose whether to pay for union representation without risking their jobs, is a good idea in Wisconsin, and a good idea everywhere else it can be tried. According to data from the Labor and Commerce Departments, both wage and job growth were significantly larger in right-to-work states between 2003 and 2013. Right-to-work states also experienced twice as much growth in real manufacturing GDP as other states. The flight of America's manufacturing base to southern right-to-work states further illustrates the point...Right-to-work, which is currently the law in 24 states, partially levels the playing field. Workers who do not want to join unions can still be forced to accept union representation, but they cannot be forced to pay for it as a condition of employment.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/12/09/wisconsin-rumble-round-two-right-to-work-n1929071
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has accomplished quite a lot over the past four years. He's won three elections; getting elected in 2010, decisively defeating (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/06/05/hold) a recall effort that attracted national attention, and prevailing (http://townhall.com/election/2014/governor/wi/county) by a fair comfortable margin in November's (re)-re-election campaign. On a policy level, he's won the two biggest fights he's picked, enacting his controversial and successful (http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/08/12/its-working-in-wisconsin-high-court-upholds-act-10/) 'Act 10' budget reforms in 2011 -- which touched off massive protests and the ill-fated recall push -- and signing (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-set-to-sign-tax-cut-legislation-b99231851z1-251936261.html) a large tax cuts package (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/give-the-surplus-back-to-wisconsin-taxpayers-b99189017z1-241915501.html) earlier this year. Now that he's been handed his third mandate in four years, Walker has a decision to make: Will he follow the lead of Republicans in the state legislature and champion a right-to-work law? The governor has labeled the initiative "a distraction (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-says-right-to-work-bill-would-be-a-distraction-b99403657z1-284897331.html)," but hasn't ruled out (http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Walker-wont-promise-veto-of-right-to-work-284925351.html) signing a bill if it ends up on his desk. The Washington Examiner's editors urge Badger State leaders to follow through (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wisconsin-should-pass-right-to-work/article/2557059) on the idea:
Elections have consequences, and Scott Fitzgerald, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate, wants one of those consequences to be a state right-to-work law. Wisconsin is one of three states without such a law where Republicans have effective control over the legislative process for at least the next two years. Right-to-work, which lets workers choose whether to pay for union representation without risking their jobs, is a good idea in Wisconsin, and a good idea everywhere else it can be tried. According to data from the Labor and Commerce Departments, both wage and job growth were significantly larger in right-to-work states between 2003 and 2013. Right-to-work states also experienced twice as much growth in real manufacturing GDP as other states. The flight of America's manufacturing base to southern right-to-work states further illustrates the point...Right-to-work, which is currently the law in 24 states, partially levels the playing field. Workers who do not want to join unions can still be forced to accept union representation, but they cannot be forced to pay for it as a condition of employment.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/12/09/wisconsin-rumble-round-two-right-to-work-n1929071