A strange thing happened in Wisconsin. Stranger than the 14 Democratic senators — fleebaggers, somebody called them — who left the state for weeks. Stranger than the sight of cops dragging protesters — none of them, unfortunately, wearing cheeseheads — from the state Capitol. snip
Yes, this time the reviled teachers unions won. And the lazy/parasitic — your choice — state employees unions also won.
OK, they didn't technically win. In fact, if you want to be technical about it, the bill that passed in Wisconsin means the unions lost in every conceivable way. They lost on bargaining rights. They lost on automatic collection of dues. They lost so badly they now have to recertify yearly.
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They won because when they lost, people actually cared that they lost. It was, as they say in the sports world, a moral victory. And for Republicans, this was, as they say on Greek battlefields, a Pyrrhic victory.
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