Wisconsin Workers Rally for their Rights

What lessons can be learned from the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Wisconsin?

Men and women are rallying to try stop a bill in which unions would lose their right to collective bargaining.

Some of the workers spend their days helping children learn U.S. history and algebra.  Others climb twenty sets of stairs to put out fires.  Other demonstrators work nights in hospitals caring for veterans.  These are the workers in the public sector who are rallying in Madison, Wisconsin to protect their rights to organize.

Although part of the proposed budget cuts involve cutting state workers’ salaries, the primary objection of these workers is the stripping away of their rights to organize.  In Wisconsin, workers have had their rights to collective bargaining since the 1950s, and with this one bill would lose this right.

The non-violent demonstrations of workers and students in Madison calls upon people from other states to take a look at their states’ labor laws in place.  While it took decades of struggle to get these laws in place, they can be over-turned at the drop of a hat.  These laws can change in a moment.  If the State Senators hadn’t fled the state, Wisconsin would have quickly lost their rights to collective bargaining.

Recruiters may wish to research the laws in place that affect the workers that they hire and represent.  Are these laws complete as they stand or should they be revised?