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Wis Dems Make It Official: One Million Signatures Collected To Recall Walker
ERIC KLEEFELDJANUARY 17, 2012, 2:43 Pm
Updated January 17, 4:45 p.m. ET
Wisconsin Democrats announced Tuesday that they have collected over a million signatures to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker — nearly twice the 540,208 signatures, or 25 percent of the total votes in the previous election for governor, needed to trigger a new election.
The petitions are being submitted today to the state Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections. This will in turn set off a lengthy review process by state officials, before an election can go forward later in the year. But given the very large number of signatures that are well beyond the already high threshold, and the state’s recent history of recalls in the state Senate, it seems a safe bet that an election will occur.
The state last year achieved national fame (or infamy), for Walker’s legislation stripping public employee unions of most collective bargaining rights — and the waves of protests that filled the state Capitol and other locations, followed by a summer of state Senate recall campaigns that attracted tens of millions of dollars in political spending.
http://tpmdc.talking...call-walker.php
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Crippling the Right to Organize
December 17 2011 - 10:12 AM
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Crippling the Right to Organize
By WILLIAM B. GOULD IV
Published: December 16, 2011
UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on theNational Labor Relations Board, which protects collective bargaining, are vacant, and on Dec. 31, the term ofCraig Becker, a labor lawyer whomPresident Obama named to the board last year through a recess appointment, will expire. Without a quorum, the Supreme Court ruled last year, the board cannot decide cases.
What would this mean?
Workers illegally fired for union organizing won’t be reinstated with back pay. Employers will be able to get away with interfering with union elections. Perhaps most important, employers won’t have to recognize unions despite a majority vote by workers. Without the board to enforce labor law, most companies will not voluntarily deal with unions.
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Crippling the Right to Organize
By WILLIAM B. GOULD IV
Published: December 16, 2011
UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on theNational Labor Relations Board, which protects collective bargaining, are vacant, and on Dec. 31, the term ofCraig Becker, a labor lawyer whomPresident Obama named to the board last year through a recess appointment, will expire. Without a quorum, the Supreme Court ruled last year, the board cannot decide cases.
What would this mean?
Workers illegally fired for union organizing won’t be reinstated with back pay. Employers will be able to get away with interfering with union elections. Perhaps most important, employers won’t have to recognize unions despite a majority vote by workers. Without the board to enforce labor law, most companies will not voluntarily deal with unions.
http://www.nytimes.c...r=2&ref=opinion
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