Labor & Employment Law

Walker Manufactured Budget Crisis to Screen Attack on Workers

By Mike Hall

Under a sunny Wisconsin sky, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka tells the huge crowd of  union members, students, activists and supporters that Gov. Scott Walker?s (R) real goal is to bust unions.

?Truth: WI’s state emplys said they’d help w so-called fiscal crisis – even tho was manufactured by Gov. Walker himself? #StateSOS #notmyWI

?Walker came into office w budget balance of over $120 million! He gave away WI’s millions? #NotMyWI #WIunion #StateSOS #1u

?Gov. Walker gave away tax breaks to create a deficit? #NotMyWI #StateSOS #WIunion #1u

?Walker’s no different than politicians in DC who fought 1st and hardest for tax breaks for billionaires? #StateSOS #NotmyWI #WIunion #1u

?…so they could turn around and use deficit as excuse to take knife to Social Security, Medicare…? #StateSOS #NotMyWi #WIunion #1u

?This has been happening for 30yrs. Tax cuts create deficits that create urgency to cut, cut, cut.? #StateSOS #notmyWI #WIunion #1u

?No more! Walker’s attack on state emplys is attack on America’s middle class – we’re here to defend America!? #notmyWI #WIunion #stateSOS

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).