Labor & Employment Law

Madison Chamber Slams ?Adversarial? Moves Against Public Employees

By Donna Jablonski

The Greater Madison (Wis.) Chamber of Commerce has slammed the “adversarial way elected officials are approaching” public employees in Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on good jobs and collective bargaining rights. Here’s part of the statement:

The GMCC supports the work to address the state budget deficit and the efforts toward improving the state’s economy.  That support ends at the adversarial way elected officials are approaching it.  Public policy issues of this magnitude should not be rushed through the legislative process.  Given this state’s long history of collective bargaining, policy changes of this magnitude should be thoroughly debated for an adequate period of time, in good faith by both sides, with all potential consequences considered.  Currently, that is not happening.

Not sure when last a Chamber of Commerce cited a state’s “long history of collective bargaining,” but maybe someone should check if that hot place has frozen over.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 20, 2011 (boomark / email).