I posted this here so DUmmies would see this. Regarding WI

[BEG]

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus….  The district… plans to hire teachers and reduce class size.Let’s stop and think of all the protesters who carried signs asserting that their opposition to Scott Walker was for the children.

[Tucker]

This will most certainly have the voter view things a little differently.

[franksolich]

This will most certainly have the voter view things a little differently.

And I do believe the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is a left-leaning rag.

[Freeper]

I thought the libs wanted more teachers and smaller class size.

[BEG]

I thought the libs wanted more teachers and smaller class size.

Not if Hitler, I mean Walker, is the reason. 

[Ballygrl]

Nice!

[Ballygrl]

Well darn! I just did a search at DU and can't find an article on this. The comments are awesome at the link.

[dandi]

Despite all their huffing and puffing about "the poor" and "the children" and "*insert victim group here*", it's always been about them and how they can stick their grubby little paws into someone else's pocket and fill their own. That's what they mean when they repeat that "voting your best interests" line ad nauseum. Their best interests lie in voting themselves as much money from the public treasure as possible, and the entitlement mentality is so ingrained in them they can't imagine someone voting their conscience instead.

[BEG]

Racine County inmates to do jobs previously done by unionized employees (Wisconsin)

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Some unions who didn't have a contract in place, lost some of their power as Governor Walker's collective bargaining changes begin to take effect. In Racine County, it means inmates doing some of the work unions had previously bargained for.

Last June, the county took Racine inmates out of their jail cells and put them behind lawn movers. They were cutting the grass in areas that the county executive says were neglected, due to budget cuts. Local unions filed a grievance saying work like that should be done by union members...

[sybilll]

Racine County inmates to do jobs previously done by unionized employees (Wisconsin)

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BEG, this post is full of so much WIN!  Thanks for sharing!
  

[thelaughingman]

Local unions filed a grievance saying work like that should be done by union members...

Someone call a waaaaaaaahmubulance!

[AllosaursRus]

They're pissed 'cause unions aren't cuttin' the ****in' grass? Are they series????

No wonder the rank and file voted the Dems outa office! In my day, it was us 12 year olds that cut the ****in' grass! We took out the trash, too, heaven forbid. Hell in my ma's house, we did the damn dishes, too!

[diesel driver]

They're pissed 'cause unions aren't cuttin' the ****in' grass? Are they series????

No wonder the rank and file voted the Dems outa office! In my day, it was us 12 year olds that cut the ****in' grass! We took out the trash, too, heaven forbid. Hell in my ma's house, we did the damn dishes, too!

Damn, Al, we might be related!

I had to do those things, too. 

But since I grew up on a farm, I started mowing when I was 8, and my "lawnmower" was 50+ hp and mowed 7 feet at a pass. 

The worst part was coming back 2 days later and pick up the grass in these nice 3 foot long "bundles".   

[Karin]

the entitlement mentality is so ingrained in them they can't imagine someone voting their conscience instead.

  Well put, dandi. 

I'm going to read some more about this as the day goes.  What a great thread. 

[whiffleball]

This news will be studiously ignored by the left.  However, I'm very pleased to hear that Walker's positions are resulting in something unions couldn't do.

Unions are dinosaurs who don't realize their use is extinct.  Putting them all down is the most compassionate and financially sound action to take.

[Ballygrl]

Here's another story on it:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district

Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district

By: Byron York | Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork | 06/30/11 8:05 PM

"This is a disaster," said Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law -- a charge repeated thousands of times by his fellow Democrats, union officials, and protesters in the streets.

Now the bill is law, and we have some very early evidence of how it is working. And for one beleaguered Wisconsin school district, it's a godsend, not a disaster.

The Kaukauna School District, in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin near Appleton, has about 4,200 students and about 400 employees. It has struggled in recent times and this year faced a deficit of $400,000. But after the law went into effect, at 12:01 a.m. 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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[jukin]

I thought the libs wanted more teachers and smaller class size.

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.

This is from the examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district#ixzz1Qs0kNLq1

There is also the HORROR of teachers putting in a full 40 hours during the 8 months of the year they work.

[Duke Nukum]

Funny how Scott Walker is days short of six months in office and Wisconsin is already seeing signs of improvement whereas Obama has been office nearly 2 & 1/2 years with no sign of improvement.

Thank you, Scott Walked!