While there are endless interesting narratives woven into the now-infamous Wisconsin budget plan, the facts, motivations, and implications impelling the legislation have become vastly distorted.

 

Scott Walker’s budget plan does not touch public employees’ right to organize. Teachers will still be able to join Madison Teachers Inc, prison guards will still be able to join their local AFSCME, and nurses will still be able to join the local SEIU. The budget does, however, eliminate monopoly bargaining rights for most public employees—firefighters, police officers are exempt—when negotiation everything but wages.

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