Anti-Union Legislation Passed

[Ocean Seal]

FuckYouScottWalker (http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110225/cm_atlantic/wisconsinassemblypassesantiunionbillinsecondslongv ote7127)

Ok. So this is it. Union solidarity has been broken in Wisconsin. We have two enemies those who passed the bill, and those who allowed it to pass. The Democrats showed some fake opposition, but the consequences are here. So know we have to mean business. The Tea Party is already hailing this guy as a hero against union thuggery. This is catastrophic, Wisconsin is one of the few places where unions are (were) still strong. He has finally made the push for neoliberalism heard, and the workers are going to suffer. How do we push back? How to we make sure that the struggle of the Wisconsin workers does not go unheard.

We can't let Walker or anyone else push us around. The reaction must be beaten back. For the workers in Wisconsin, and for the workers of the world. Right to Work must be overturned in every state, and the an-cap push must be repelled.

[Red Commissar]

Well, it passed the lower house, but it still needs to go through the upper house before it becomes law. And that won't happen so as long as the senators are still out of state.

What the unions needs to do is continue pressing regardless of what happens. They need to present to the world the hypocrisy of the tea baggers, and the influence of corporations in the country.

[bcbm]

it only passed in the assembly the senate is still at a stand still due to the absent dems

beat me to it

[Ocean Seal]

it only passed in the assembly the senate is still at a stand still due to the absent dems

beat me to it
Oh man I feel silly now. And I feel as if my title was somewhat sensational then. I just read the article. I heard about this on the radio (and they said that it had passed and really weren't more specific), and decided that I should post it on revleft asap. I really should have taken my time. I'm sorry comrades :blushing:.

[PhoenixAsh]

it only passed in the assembly the senate is still at a stand still due to the absent dems

beat me to it


Why are they absent and why do they not oppose the bill?

[Red_Struggle]

Some of the dems left the state in order to prevent the vote. That's better than nothing.

[Ocean Seal]

Why are they absent and why do they not oppose the bill?
I think that if they are absent then the bill cannot be presented for voting, and if they are there then the bill will most probably pass. Dems are buying the workers some time. Maybe the opposition is falsified, but at least protests like these are making right to work advocates slow their roll in other states.

[S.Artesian]

The Wisconsin Senate requires a quorum of 20 members being present before it can conduct important legislative business involving finances, changes to contracts etc. The Republican have 19 and could pass the measure over the objections of the Dems, if the Dems showed up.

So no quorum, no action.

However, the only thing the Dems are objecting to is the stripping of collective bargaining rights from the public sector workers, not the givebacks....

I don't think any of this is slowing the "right-to-work" advocates in any states-- first 45 states face serious budget deficits, the governors in almost all those states have already targeted public-sector workers. Secondly, there's big big big money behind these ratbaq motherfuckers. These Koch brothers have an empire built on oil, and of course on a record of theft, literally, stealing oil by under reporting amounts taken from federal and native American lands.

Their own brother Bill, according to CBS news in 2000, described Charles and David Koch as running an "organized crime operation," which might explain why these crackpot capitalists want to eliminate all regulation, all corporate taxes, all labor organizations. These guys are no joke and have enough money to wipe the grin off anybody's face, which is why parliamentary struggle doesn't mean anything other than garnering publicity to oppose these capitalists through self-organization, and extra-parliamentary means.

[Jose Gracchus]

The Koch Brothers are like walking arguments for propaganda of the deed (though I wouldn't actually support individual terrorism in practice).

[S.Artesian]

In any case, while everybody's, or almost everybody's watching Wisconsin, guess what's happened in Ohio?

[Proukunin]

What happened? IK that the senate passed the anti-worker bill. Was there huge demonstrations?


also, Detroit may be the next to strike and Idaho students have walked out.

[S.Artesian]

One house of the Ohio legislature, the state senate passed legislation eliminating the right of public service workers to strike, and removing healthcare and pensions [I think] from the collective bargaining process. The bill now goes to the other house where the Republican have a 60% majority.

There were some demonstrations. I don't know what's going on now. Kassad might have some more current information.

[Kassad]

Senate Bill 5 passed the Ohio Senate and it will be debated by the House beginning tomorrow. There was a massive protest of over 25,000 people last week. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was literally the only socialist group there, but we managed to distribute thousands of the special edition of Liberation Newspaper and leaflets.

When the bill passed, there was another mobilization at the Statehouse which was not as large, but keep in mind that the unions have been busing people in to the demonstrations and they did not do that the day it passed. It's unclear as to where we go from here, as many of the unions fear that the bill is going to pass regardless of what we do. Let's hope mobilizations continue.