Scott Walker Calls for Eliminating Federal Unions

On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Walker said Obama’s “lack of leadership” has led to the violence. And Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton accused him of bullying union members.

“It sends a powerful message across the country and around the world”, he said at the time.

They’ve become some of the biggest spenders and heaviest hitters in our political campaigns, and even though they’re one of the most ideal examples of a “special interest” devoted to using government power for their own benefit, they’re never mentioned as such when complaints about excessive sums of money influencing politics are made.

While some of Walker’s proposals would affect private-sector unions, many specifically target unions for workers at all levels of government. During the Depression, FDR famously observed “the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, can not be transplanted into the public service”. “He does not come up as much as he did two months ago”, Mahaffey said.

“I think it’s a good move”, said Richard Schwarm, a former GOP chairman in the early caucus state of Iowa who is uncommitted in the 2016 race. The vast majority indicated that it favors “right to work” laws that have greatly accelerated the decline of private-sector union organizations.

Scott Walker will attend a GOP event in Michigan this weekend after earlier saying he was canceling the appearance to concentrate on campaigning in Iowa and South Carolina. “His campaign is floundering, and so he does what he always does when he can’t think of real solutions: He attacks workers”. “Our plan will eliminate the big government unions entirely and put the American people back in charge of their government”.

In a speech prepared for delivery later today at Eureka College in Illinois, the alma mater of President Ronald Reagan, Walker will attempt to reboot his campaign with a hard hitting and highly controversial critique of the labor movement and the need for a major overhaul that would strip public employees’ unions of most of their collective bargaining strength.

The enactment of the right-to-work laws represented the height of Walker’s national popularity, however.

Other presidential candidates who remain on the Mackinac conference agenda are Sen. Bernie Sanders, said Walker’s plan would only make rich people and corporations even wealthier.

“Gov. Walker must have forgotten that unions build the middle class and lift millions of workers out of poverty”, said Wisconsin AFL-CIO president Phil Neuenfeldt.

“I’ve by no means seen something like this”, stated Ann Hodges, a professor on the College of Richmond who has studied labor regulation for greater than 40 years. It will also do away with federal workers being allowed to do union work on taxpayer time. “It’s pretty draconian”.

Walker’s plan would also require online disclosure of union expenditures, require federal unions to disclose the portion of dues used for political activity and prohibit withholding for that amount.

Some changes could be adopted with executive orders.

Walker, 47, garnered national headlines just six weeks after taking the oath of office.