Wisconsin State Workers

As I have spoken before on this subject and do not want to belabor it I will be brief. Everyone by now knows I stand with unions and against the Corporate thieves that are consolidating their power.

Reading yesterday however this confirmation. The bill that Governor Walker proposes to pass will limit collective bargaining to only wages. This means in addition to things like benefits also the issue of seniority. Anyone who can read will know that this means that as budgets tighten older, more experienced and thus higher paid teachers will be out of a job.

How can we tell our children their education counts, tell our children like my daughter that their dream of being a teacher is a valuable one, if teachers become the scapegoat and lose the benefits they have earned. Do we really think a pension is too much to ask.

I will give the Republican spin machine credit. They are good at what they do, far better than Democrats can ever think of being. To think that they can take money from the corporate interests and greed guzzlers like the Koch brothers and foster divides between working people that have pensions and those who do not amazes me.

One would think that those workers who are not unionized and do not have pensions and benefits would call out to each other that they need to get unionized and fight to improve their lot. Instead following the Republicans hopes and dreams they take out their bile and anger on those who do rather than the fatcats who limit their opportunity to do the same.

It is a very strange thing.

At some point we all reach a point in our profession where we have done the right things and worked long enough that we are making a salary that is more than someone just starting out. Trusting in corporations to value our experience over the money they could save by replacing us with a younger, cheaper worker is a fruitless exercise.

Would we not all be better off trying to gain the benefits the unions have fought for than by trying to bring their members down to our unprotected status.

It boggles the mind.