Labor & Employment Law

Wis. Republicans Flee Public Meeting Filled with Supporters of Public Employees

By Tula Connell

Seems some Wisconsin Republicans don’t want to hear what the majority of their constituents believe: Gov. Scott Walker is wrong to try and take away the right of public employees to collectively bargain for middle-class jobs.

Late yesterday, U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) adjourned a town hall meeting he was holding with Republican state Sen. Leah Vukmir after a large crowd, opposed to Walker’s plan, shouted objections to Vukmir’s comments on the budget.

According to Milwaukee-based WTMJ-TV, the crowd then broke into chants of “Shame, shame, shame”?as did state House Democrats when Republicans used a tricky maneuver to pass the anti-worker budget bill.

Watch it.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).