Update and corrections: I should not have to ride herd on the media, but the Left's penchant for lies makes surveillance of the news, a necessity.

<<<  The whiners on the Left hate comparisons of their pundits to the likes of Hitler,  but,  they seldom fail to make such comparisons against the Right.  Here is a perfect example. 


Things just keep getting worse for the radicalized unions in the state of Wisconsin.   (Note: not all unions are radicalized, btw)    Now,  as the result of a Federal court's opinion,    the poor darlings of forced union membership have to have their unions certified each and every year by way of an annual majority vote.  In addition,  the federal courts have ruled that dues collected cannot be automatically collected,  which , in the end,  puts a barrier around the practice of stealing the dues of members and using them to support political causes for which members may not be in agreement.

As you read the excerpt, below,   make note of the court's judgments and the persistent lie told by the Wisconsin media,  a lie that claims Governor Walker and his "cohorts" have destroyed collective bargaining.  Me?  I despise collective bargaining.  It only serves to advantage those who are lazy and irresponsible in their duties as employees.  But that aside,  the fact of the matter is this:  collective bargaining has been eliminated with regard to state employee benefit packages,  not  wages and over-time pay (along with the vacation pay ?).   The state's worker compensation plan that Walker and the Republican state congress has instituted is the  mirror image of the  existing Federal plan,  under B Obama. 

With regard to the controversy surrounding Governor Walker, you should know that  when he took office,  less than 5% of the business community thought the state was on the right track,  financially.  Today,  that percentage has exploded to 91%.    None of this is being reported in the national media,  but it is common knowledge within the State of Wisconsin.   And, last we looked,  Walker was ahead in state polling by the same margins with which he won the general election in 2010.   

Madison - State unions were dealt a setback Friday when a federal judge said they would have to get their members to opt in, rather than opt out, to having the state deduct union dues from their paychecks.

What's more, the judge did not rule on dues deductions for unions that he earlier found the state improperly decertified. The state's largest unions were decertified, and the ruling - at least for now - will make it harder for them to get money from dues.

But U.S. District Court Judge William Conley gave unions one beneficial ruling by saying that members who sign up to have their dues deducted from their paychecks can be required to make a yearlong commitment. That will help union leaders budget because they can better know how much money they will be getting, attorneys for the unions said.

Friday's rulings came as part of a union challenge to a new law, championed by Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans, that all but ended collective bargaining for most public workers. Conley gave the unions a partial victory in March when he ruled aspects of the new law were unconstitutional.

Specifically, he struck down a part of the law that said unions had to be recertified annually by getting a majority of all potential members to vote to keep a union, rather than simply a majority of those voting. He also struck down a provision that barred the state from deducting dues from the paychecks of those who chose to join unions.

The state has appealed those rulings, and the unions have appealed other aspects of his decision in an effort to get more of the collective bargaining law struck down. Conley last month stayed part of his decision until the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the case. . . . .   finish the full article here.