Winning the Fight Against Special Interests’ Control over Education

Lindsey Burke / February 24, 2011

The Wisconsin assembly agreed at 6:00 a.m. this morning to end debate on Governor Scott Walker’s (R) budget repair bill and to finally move to a decision on the proposed collective bargaining reforms. The situation in the Senate, however, remains unresolved and for over a week now Walker has been putting the fire under the feet of missing Democrats in an attempt to get the lawmakers to return to the capitol.

If Walker’s collective bargaining proposal is enacted, teachers in Wisconsin will now be permitted to keep their teaching jobs even if they don’t want to join the education union. Moreover, the state government would no longer collect union dues through the government payroll system. (more…)