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Further, unions must hold annual votes to let workers decide whether or not to be members, and state authorities no longer will collect union dues from paychecks.
On March 10, Wisconsin's Republican controlled State Assembly easily passed the measure 53 - 42. Walker will sign it into law - by diktat, not democracy.
On March 10, JS writers Lee Bergquist, Jason Stein and Bill Glauber headlined, "Demonstrators crowd Capitol in wild scene after Senate vote," saying:
"Protesters took back control of the Capitol on Wednesday night after Senate Republicans" stripped their collective bargaining rights. "Surging past security, (they) reclaimed the Capitol rotunda...."
Others outside chanted, "Let us in." Inside, they yelled, "You lied to Wisconsin" and "Kill the Bill." In a shocking act of betrayal, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), representing 98,000 public education employees, instructed teachers to return to classrooms, instead of calling for a general strike to shut down the entire state until the bill is reversed. Growing numbers of teachers and other workers demand one.
Ahead of the Senate vote, email exchanges between Walker and Democrats suggested a deal, involving union certification votes triannually instead of as approved as well as other compromises. All along Democrats, like union bosses, planned capitulation, but needed enough cover to fool constituents.
On March 10, Murdoch's Wall Street Journal gave Walker op-ed space to headline, "Why I'm Fighting in Wisconsin," claiming:
He's doing it "to avoid mass teacher layoffs and reward our best performers," when, in fact, he and other Democrat and Republican governors and lawmakers are destroying public education in their states, and making public university tuitions unaffordable for millions of aspiring students with inadequate family and personal resources to afford them.
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