Wisconsin Recall Election Travesty

This June vote scheduled for June 5, still time to send your money to "Friends of Governor Walker" (see my previous post for the address), is all about unions continuing to exert their power over running schools and most all other unionized public sectors such as highway construction and bridge repair. "What unions really want is legal standing to SUE employers and prevent ANY changes -  in wages, hours, or other conditions of employment - unwanted by their members", so says Attorney Christopher M. Toner writing a column in today's WSJ.

Unions sue for the right of union teachers to review pornography in the classrooms, for principals to sell drugs to students and to retain proven incompetent teachers of which their is a fair sized minority. Review my previous post where out of all Illinois teachers, less than 7 were discharged for incompetence or worse, and instances of where taxpayers had to spend up to $600,000 to fire just one teacher.

A sadder part is that the man promising CHANGE strongly supports the belligerent uniionization of all working people. Some change.

And oboy, look at the competence of our state politicians. If  Walker is recalled, so will go the State of Wisconsin. Already, there is a shift of population out of Wisconsin, some because of the large number of retirees seeking warmer climes, and young common sense people seeking a better environment to raise their families.

To quote Toner further, "Education is easily the most important social equalizer in our society, yet there is no evidence that Wisconsin previous levels of retirement and health benefits improved student performance. many factors harm student performance - including that we can't  fire our most incompetent teachers and seldom reward the best, thanks to union contracts that forbid merit based compensation and block the dismissal of teachers except in very rare circumstances.

Recalling Governor Walker and reinstating collective bargaining rights would guarantee a tax hike to pay astronomically, pre-Walker-level health benefits to union members."

To further quote Attorney Toner, Governor Walkers's charges wouldn't have been needed, except that most politicians are unwilling to confront their friends and constituents".

Expect that habit to get worse all over the country if the union bosses and their followers prevail on.
june 6. Weak school boards or union dominated boards such as our union dominated Peoria County Board, now running a deficit for the first time since 2000 are the ruination of our country by the growing public sectors belligerent unions and the weak boards that are supposed to control them, not the other way around.

As the JSEB reported back on 6/12/95, "Union can't run District #150". Well, they did and still do along with their many union supporters on the school board.

So sad that this great country is in a downward spiral. No, I don't blame it all on the unions, but also on the greedy or incompetent politicians that we continue to elect because the best minds seldom run for public office because of the intense over-scrutinizing of their past history and the continuing assault of them by the least competent people, including many left-wing liberals reporters dominating the media..