My personal belief is that protests bigger than this will be happening in every major American city within a year.

Just my thoughts, good to see these workers standing up for their rights.

Is this a beginning of a nation wide Egyptian style Protest? I'm sure these teachers might be considering of riot like an Egyptian

Beyond eliminating collective bargaining rights, the bill would force public workers to pay half the cost of their pensions and at least 12.6% of their health-care coverage. ...
Under Mr. Walker's proposal, public-worker unions could still represent employees, but could not pursue pay increases above those pegged to the Consumer Price Index unless they were approved by a public referendum. Unions also could not force employees to pay dues and would have to hold votes once a year to stay organized.

Am I missing something? How is any of this bad? This is a better deal than most people have.

Appears the entire world is full of PO'd people.

The governor, and governors all over the nation have no choice.

The money isn't there for the status quo.

Plus, the damned unions have just about done themselves in. And good riddance.

Unions for public employees should never be allowed,
and as for the unions wanting him recalled,
they didn't want him elected in the first place.

How are you even beginning a thread?

I work for the county and yesterday, the board of supervisors sucker-punched us by circumventing the bargaining process and shoved a 9% pay cut down our throats by way of furloughs and pension contribution cuts. It's illegal, and they know that but did it anyway and basically said F*ck You to the workers and our union. We don't make huge salaries - I get paid about $40K a year and I have a Ba.S.degree in Psychology. Our health plan includes 20% co-pays, large deductibles, including co-pays on medications. Who thinks this is "exorbitant"??? But the political elite along with the stoking of corporate-run media has convinced the dumbed-down masses that we're a bunch of spoiled, lazy, unproductive "government workers" that need to be taken down, while each day we are told to do more with less staff, less resources, more paperwork and horrendously high caseload demands. We are all exhausted, the stress is off the charts. We've had one man die with stress-related illness, 3 others had to go out on temporary leave for severe anxiety, people quitting, and many positions not being filled because the reputation of working for my county has spread far and wide. But we stick with it because we enjoy helping people - but unfortunately there's gonna come a time when some or all of us walk and tell them to stick it!

The stress is getting to all of us so much that we're about to go ape-sh*t. There's talk amongst the workers that we'll take our imposed, 10 non-paid furlough days ALL AT ONCE and see how the county and public would like to see essential county services SHUT DOWN for TWO freakin' weeks. See if they like THAT!

Yep state workers the gravy train is over get used to it.Can't wait till this gets to NY state.The workers have better benifits here than anyone in the private sector.The county workers in Erie county have it better than the state workers.after having 8 years of service (and it's nearly impossible to get fired)they get ready ....drum roll please 19 weeks vacation.How about them apples.I was flabbergasted when I read that in the paper.Not to mention that their pension is based on the last three years of service so for the last three years before thewy retire they put in more hours than they ever have and get sometimes a pension that pays more than their original salary.Nice deal huh....get that where you work?That's what too much union control gets ya.They also get their healthcare payed for that's state and countyThey put nothing toward their pensions.

Isn't it ironic/hypocritical that Gov. Walker and the legislators can legislate themselves a salary increase on the backs of the taxpayers that actually work for a living.

I think the thing that scares me the most is how little the media is reporting this.
This should be HUGE today.
I guess we'll see tonight if the news is full of protests from the rest of the world.