Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin. And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not Wisconsin or Indiana, then Ohio for sure. The great Midwestern flyover zone was front and center in every …
Tag: collective bargaining
Initiative Campaigns Could Save Unions and Obama in Ohio in 2012
New Orleans In a wild case of unintended consequences the current Republican attack on unions in New Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio could end up insuring the re-election of President Obama and possibly save public sector unionism at the same time though like all political struggles it would be a high stakes gamble. How? We …
The Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults
New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial attack on collective bargaining that we are seeing in the Republican assault in the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. Conservative governments had gained the whip hand in provincial parliaments …