Your warning lights should be flashing bright red, Bucky:
Because we're told that GOP leaders, along with WI's big-business-without-any-worker-representation' special interests are working on a plan to roll outshould they when the State Supreme Court lets them wrest control of the government's emergency powers from Gov. Evers.
You can bet the plan is already sitting on secret servers within a keystroke of the leaders computers to further empower businesses to dismiss worker who resist a quick return to workplaces reopened even before Trump's corporately-obeisant White House says its safe.
The GOP-run legislature already passed one bill that denied some EMT's an easy path to Covid-19 treatment and compensation after the heavyweight WMC got GOP legislators to add the anti-worker to a bill distributing emergency federal dollars.
You have to assume business interests and GOP ideologues are going to 'plan' for additional financial and managerial restrictions on public employees even if that steps on the Governor's prerogatives - - about which Fitzgerald and Vos could not care about any less.
Because have seen what happens in Wisconsin when Walkerite corporatist tools get together privately and make plans. Remember when:
* Act 10 got sprung, with Walker calling the "modest, modest requests" making up his secretly-drafted radical rewrite of public employee rights, wages, benefit funding and 50 years of state history and law.
* Ditto for the secretly-crafted GOP gerrymander that continues to overly-populate the Legislature with rightwing Republicans who are only too happy to pretend that they are entitled to that representation with all the power it delivers.
* Not to mention the 2018 lame-duck package of bills Republicans had ready to roll out and over incoming Democratic Governor Evers and Attorney General Kaul.
We've seen this movie before. it only ends well for the GOP.
Nothing good comes from quietly-crafted GOP legislative measures except fewer dollars and rights in the hands of working people and greater powers accumulated by GOP legislators to serve their donors and partisan advanatages.
Because we're told that GOP leaders, along with WI's big-business-without-any-worker-representation' special interests are working on a plan to roll out
You can bet the plan is already sitting on secret servers within a keystroke of the leaders computers to further empower businesses to dismiss worker who resist a quick return to workplaces reopened even before Trump's corporately-obeisant White House says its safe.
The GOP-run legislature already passed one bill that denied some EMT's an easy path to Covid-19 treatment and compensation after the heavyweight WMC got GOP legislators to add the anti-worker to a bill distributing emergency federal dollars.
You have to assume business interests and GOP ideologues are going to 'plan' for additional financial and managerial restrictions on public employees even if that steps on the Governor's prerogatives - - about which Fitzgerald and Vos could not care about any less.
Because have seen what happens in Wisconsin when Walkerite corporatist tools get together privately and make plans. Remember when:
* Act 10 got sprung, with Walker calling the "modest, modest requests" making up his secretly-drafted radical rewrite of public employee rights, wages, benefit funding and 50 years of state history and law.
* Ditto for the secretly-crafted GOP gerrymander that continues to overly-populate the Legislature with rightwing Republicans who are only too happy to pretend that they are entitled to that representation with all the power it delivers.
* Not to mention the 2018 lame-duck package of bills Republicans had ready to roll out and over incoming Democratic Governor Evers and Attorney General Kaul.
We've seen this movie before. it only ends well for the GOP.
Nothing good comes from quietly-crafted GOP legislative measures except fewer dollars and rights in the hands of working people and greater powers accumulated by GOP legislators to serve their donors and partisan advanatages.