So, That Wisonson Union Battle ... Results are Trickling in...

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Lets take a look at a liberal disaster with the help of Byron York who, of course, does what the rest of the media can not:

Wednesday, school officials put in place new policies they estimate will turn that $400,000 deficit into a $1.5 million surplus. And it's all because of the very provisions that union leaders predicted would be disastrous.

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Now, the collective bargaining agreement is gone, and the school district is free to shop around for coverage. And all of a sudden, WEA Trust has changed its position. "With these changes, the schools could go out for bids, and lo and behold, WEA Trust said, 'We can match the lowest bid,'" says Republican state Rep. Jim Steineke, who represents the area and supports the Walker changes.

Work rule changes mean teachers teach 6 instead of 5 periods a day as well as having to be in school for 40 hours a week rather than 37.5.

The changes mean Kaukauna can reduce the size of its classes -- from 31 students to 26 students in high school and from 26 students to 23 students in elementary school. In addition, there will be more teacher time for one-on-one sessions with troubled students. Those changes would not have been possible without the much-maligned changes in collective bargaining.

Give me some more of that new- age liberal disaster!






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Union Troubles in Wisconsin

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James Taranto calls Prosser's win in Wisconsin a Landslide (admitted an exaggeration later in the article):

...With Prosser proffered as a proxy for Walker (we dare you to say that 10 times fast), the justice's approximately 50.5% of the vote is a swing of less than 2% away from Walker, elected last November with 52.3%.

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Judge Halts Wisconsin Law Curbing Collective Bargaining While ObamaCare plugs Away...

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Wisconsin,

Sumi’s order will prevent Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law until she can rule on the merits of the case. Dane County Ismael Ozanne is seeking to block the law because he says a legislative committee violated the state’s open meetings law.

Sumi said Ozanne was likely to succeed on the merits.

Contrast the above with the Judge Vinson's ruling on Obamacare,

“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void. This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications,” Vinson writes.

The Wisconsin law must be blocked until the judge can rule on the merits of a case that may have violated the state's open meetings law while ObamaCare may continue to be implemented despite having been found to violate the Constitution.

There is a political double standard in the implementation new law if that law is questioned in the courts.



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Credential Friction...

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I've been forced offline by work. Been slammed. Tenants disappearing in the dark of night have a way of leaving me a lot of work, more so when the property is out of town.

But, here is a little something to say I'm still around.....

Wisconsin spurred by the public is fighting for its future as are the Wisconsin unions. One lit the path taken while the other lights the way forward.

The Madison Blues:

However much money the public sector unions fling into the maw of Democratic party politics, the old system is going down. Workers will actually do better in states that act quickly; the longer the day of reckoning is postponed, the higher the bill will be, and the more savage and draconian the cuts will have to become.

But if the blue social model and 4.0 liberalism are losing, what will take their place?

• 1. Protectionism

• 2. "dismantling minimum wage laws, a full scale assault on private labor unions, and an aggressive deregulation of as much of the economy as possible. "
  

• 3.

  To put it in a nutshell, the only way forward for the United States is to unleash the full transformational power of information technology in the knowledge and service industries even if this entails (as it surely will) the destruction of the current institutional, bureaucratic and guild-based systems on which we currently rely.

It seems other states may follow Wisconsin's modest lead, though the history of the US is that of pragmatism which will likely lead to a little of each of the above.






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