Wisconsin Public Sector Unions Get What they Demanded

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Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker submitted a budget repair bill that included measures to allow cities, counties and school districts to reduce expenses without laying off workers. The unions and their members are fighting the implementation of that law. Local governments and school boards clamored to offer sweetheart deals to the unions, extending the contracts before the budget repair law could go into effect. Now that the cities, counties and school districts have strapped themselves with those contracts, reality is setting in. Reality is, another part of Walker's plan to balance the budget includes reducing state aid to local governments and school districts. So, because the local governments can't reduce the Cadillac benefits packages, cities and school boards are looking at laying off workers. But that's what the unions demanded. So that's what the workers get.