Governor Scott Walker Threatens to Terminate Truant State Employees (Video)

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened tonight to terminate those state employees who do not show up for work.
Governor Walker was on with Sean Hannity tonight.

Sean Hannity: Are you planning on taking a position that if they continue to call out sick that you may threaten to fire them?

Governor Scott Walker: Well, a couple of different things. One, I haven’t seen the video tape. I’ve heard about it but obviously if there are doctors and teachers doing that sort of thing, of abusing the system that’s outrageous and there’s a whole objective system set in this state to review medical professionals who might be falsifying information. And, we’ll leave it up to that objective panel. But obviously we take that very seriously… When it comes to teachers, unlike air traffic controllers at the federal level or state employees in the state of Wisconsin government system, school districts are operated by individual school superintendents and school boards and many of those superintendents have notified their teachers that they’ll face disciplinary action if they are failing to show up because of being at protest as opposed to taking legitimate time off. I support them and backed them on that. The good news is that I think the teacher’s union wised up this week after getting a lot of grief from parents and essentially told their teachers to go back to work. But if state employees aren’t there, obviously we would terminate people and replace them.

#1 February 21, 2011 at 9:22 pm
mg4us commented:

Just do it!
#2 February 21, 2011 at 9:23 pm
BuddyG commented:

Ah yes, the ol’ PATCO solution. One for the Gipper. Go Gov Walker !
#3 February 21, 2011 at 9:32 pm
mamagriz68 commented:

It’s so great to see a grownup in charge!
#4 February 21, 2011 at 9:34 pm
dcat commented:

Do it Scott!
#5 February 21, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Conservative Ken commented:

Oh yeah, Reaganize em!
#6 February 21, 2011 at 9:36 pm
gus commented:

Oh Dear, someone stands up to the GOONION THUGS. How refreshing.
#7 February 21, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Remco Kimber commented:

Do it, dawg!!!
#8 February 21, 2011 at 9:39 pm
John commented:

Never, ever threaten. Announce the deadline and execute it.
#9 February 21, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Chisum commented:

No collective bargaining. Mucho union collective vapors.

Invest in smelling salts.
#10 February 21, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Dave-O commented:

Talk is cheap. Let’s see it happen – then I’ll be a believer.
#11 February 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm
gus commented:

Chisum. It’s only banning collective bargaining for their bennies. It’s asking for a 5% payment toward pension and 12% toward health care.
Hardly draconian.
I’ve known Scott Walker since my teens. He is a good man.
#13 February 21, 2011 at 9:46 pm
NickDeringer commented:

Is Walker running for POTUS?? Hmmmmm…..
#14 February 21, 2011 at 9:47 pm
gus commented:

He’s not running for POTUS yet. He’s been governor for 6 weeks.
#15 February 21, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Granny commented:

#11 February 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm
gus commented:

Chisum. It’s only banning collective bargaining for their bennies. It’s asking for a 5% payment toward pension and 12% toward health care.
Hardly draconian.
I’ve known Scott Walker since my teens. He is a good man.
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There are three other points in this bill. First, the unions may no longer run a “closed shop” for public employees. No one can be forced to join a union. Second, the state/city governments will no longer be responsible for collecting union dues. That will be the responsibility of the individual unions. Finally, each bargaining unit will be required to reaffirm their bargaining agent on an annual basis.

All of which sounds like a perfectly fair plan to me. No one should be forced to pay what amounts to a kickback or bribe in order to hold a job in the United States of America.
#16 February 21, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Chisum commented:

Gus,

I think Walker is great. I particularly like that he is going to stop the automatic payroll deductions for union dues. Let the unions collect their own dues. Perhaps when members have to write a check and actually see how much they are paying for the privilege of belonging to a union they’ll rethink the whole concept.
#17 February 21, 2011 at 9:58 pm
gus commented:

Chisum, he is a great guy. He is honest and he works hard. What LIBTARDS will never understand, is that most of us on the CONSERVATIVE side. DO NOT BENEFIT PERSONALLY from the stances we take. Scott Walker doesn’t. He is the son of a Minister, he is from Delavan Wisconsin and never finished his undergrad at Marquette, because he and his wife Tonette needed to support their new family. He lived in my neighborhood and ran for State Assembly. I knew his grandparents because once upon a time I delivered the Paper to their home. He is a leader and he is dead serious. I told him 8 years ago at a Milwaukee Brewers game, that he would be Governor by 50. He is was elected on his 43rd birthday.
#18 February 21, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Chisum commented:

Gus,

He’s definitely a rising star. It’s going to be fun watching him grow into the job. And watching the liberal’s heads explode.
#19 February 21, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Granny commented:

#16 Chisum -

It isn’t even a matter of union members writing their own checks. It costs real dollars for an organization to handle payroll and the more transactions required to be processed the more it costs. The last figures that I saw – and this was a decade or so ago – it cost $1.50 per check just to write the paycheck. That did not include the cost of paying someone to calculate process deductions or the cost of transmitting those deductions to some third party.

If we guesstimate a cost of $1 per employee per pay period and 12K union members (though I believe there are many more in WI, that the 12K represents just teachers), you’re talking a cost of $24,000 or so a month (most government jobs pay bi-weekly) to process those union dues. The unions seem to have plenty of money to pay demonstrators, contribute to political campaigns, print signage and pay big bucks to the union bosses. Let them take care of the cost of processing union dues out of their own funds.
#20 February 21, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Scott commented:

Scott just surpassed Chuck Norris as the best Walker ever!
#21 February 21, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Chisum commented:

Granny,

Agreed. The more the unions are forced to spend on these protests and for collecting dues, etc. the better.

That’s less they’ll have to spend for the 2012 election.
#22 February 21, 2011 at 10:11 pm
gus commented:

Scott. Don’t underestimate 12 year old Johnny Walker in this equation.
#23 February 21, 2011 at 10:16 pm
bigkahuna commented:

I love how they all ay But but they have a contract. How did they treat the contract nof bond holders in gm when they gave the company to the Union ???

Screw them
#24 February 21, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Gort commented:

Wisconsin teachers “donate” approximately $100/mo. (average) Union Dues…..and that comes out of the taxpayer-funded salaries they receive. Then, the Union funnels millions to Democrat candidates/DNC to continue their extortion scheme.
#25 February 21, 2011 at 10:36 pm
myohmy commented:

There are 10% unemployed workers. Bring them in.
#26 February 21, 2011 at 10:43 pm
silentcal_rox commented:

CAN ‘EM!
#27 February 21, 2011 at 10:45 pm
donh commented:

How about refunding money to the home owners whose property taxes are paying teachers to abandon the children so they can go money grubbing personal retirement benefits that are “for the chilren.” $10 per teacher per day refund to every tax bill.
#28 February 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Granny commented:

AH-HAH! Here’s why the unions are so upset at Walker’s proposal -

Walker’s office issued a statement Monday giving its examples of how collective bargaining wastes taxpayer money. It noted that if state teachers weren’t forced to get their health insurance through the teachers’ union company, Wisconsin Education Association Trust, that could save the state $68 million per year.

“Currently, many school districts participate in WEA Trust because WEAC collectively bargains to get as many school districts across the state to participate in this union-run health insurance plan as possible. Union leadership benefits from members participating in this plan,” the governor’s office said. “If school districts had the flexibility to look for health insurance coverage outside of WEA Trust or the state plan, additional savings would likely be realized.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/21/walker-wont-bend-wisconsin-nears-deadline-restructure-massive-debt/#ixzz1Eey46XFG

No wonder the unions in WI don’t want to lose the right to bargain for benefits. They profit from those benefits!
#29 February 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm
gus commented:

UNIONS = LIBTARDS = CANCER
#30 February 21, 2011 at 11:24 pm
David Jay commented:

And to further prove the insanity and intolerance of the Left, Wisconsin blogger Ann Althouse has received a death threat for daring to post a video on You Tube that exposes what the Unions are up to at the protest. Check out her reportage at her blog. Thank God for Gateway Pundit, Ann Althouse and the other conservative bloggers doing the job that the MSM just won’t do.
#31 February 21, 2011 at 11:37 pm
donh commented:

It is wrong to use the term ” collective bargaining” . There is no bargain for the tax payer. The unions practice collective extortion.
#32 February 21, 2011 at 11:42 pm
paul commented:

wonder how well this future unemployed union thugs can say “like some fries with that” -my guess is that they would suck at that as well
#33 February 22, 2011 at 12:22 am
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:

Reagan canned the air traffic controllers and it didn’t hurt his legacy one iota.

Do it.

Do it for America.
#34 February 22, 2011 at 12:29 am
logic101 commented:

As a resident of Madison who has suffered through years of listening to the hypocritical gasbag Russ Feingold, 8 years of watching Jim Doyle try to turn the state into Cook County north, and an eternity of gagging on a local city council that would make Mao blush, when I listen to Gov. Walker, I can finally say “”for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my state!”

(or at least since Tommy Thompson was breaking ground in education and welfare reform…)
#35 February 22, 2011 at 12:54 am
Redwine commented:

I heard Mark Levin’s interview with Walker. What an awesome guy – articulate, perceptive, strong and in full grasp of the situation. We deserves our full support.
#36 February 22, 2011 at 12:59 am
Pat the First commented:

Go Reagan on them like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.
#37 February 22, 2011 at 1:02 am
donabernathy commented:

The teachers and doctors should be charged with conspiracy to commit fraud against the school system……. nothing less

roflmao
#38 February 22, 2011 at 1:08 am
Pat the First commented:

I know someone who is is charge of the money for a school district. She honestly does not get paid minimum wage because of all the hours that she has put in. She never takes her vacation and has sick leave to the max (she gives away a lot of her sick leave). Anyway, she says one of the biggest headaches and hardest part of her job is payroll. Keeping all of the benefits straight is a never ending problem. And if it wasn’t computerized it would be worse.
#39 February 22, 2011 at 1:17 am
Practical Jane commented:

Daddy’s home. Thank God.
#40 February 22, 2011 at 3:00 am
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened tonight to terminate those state employees who do not show up for work.

A possible Reagan-esque moment in the making?
#43 February 22, 2011 at 4:00 am
LimoLibsStink commented:

0bama:

Let me be clear, sure my cronies used fake doctor notes to weasel out of work. They suck! I would also and I suck!

But, I promise to hire all of my fired cronies into lush White House jobs. Ha ha! Your tax dollars at work!

Sure, Barney Frank and Doc Dean will have to give them a painstaking rectal exam before they can get their lucrative government salaries. I promise the Purple Pennons will get the best of both worlds – the metro-sexual world and the lazy life of governmental pay.

My limousine is running and I have another 30,000 SEIU 0bamacare waivers to sign. I would not want any of my friends to endure the crapy 0bamacare system – it is only for the Taxpayer. Good day.
#45 February 22, 2011 at 5:21 am
Joe College commented:

Drudge has this about Detroit public schools budget crisis…

http://detnews.com/article/20110221/SCHOOLS/102210355/1409/Michigan-orders-DPS-to-make-huge-cuts

At first glance you might think Detroit is ready to impose some sort of fiscal discipline, but if you read it carefully, it seems aimed at protecting the teachers unions. The powers in Detroit are determined to block any bankruptcy which would force a renegotiation with the union.

It is a 29 paragraph story and the word ‘teachers’ occurs just once — in the 25th paragraph — where some downstate Republican insists he doesn’t want his people to pick up the bill for Detroit corruption.
#46 February 22, 2011 at 5:33 am
Estragon commented:

Wisconsin legislators who actually show up should pass the non-fiscal aspects of the proposals – only tax and appropriation measures require the 2/3 quorum – like annual re-certification elections and ending payroll deduction of union dues, and then move on to other non-fiscal measures like Voter ID laws. I’m sure there are plenty other measures they could also bring up, and Republicans in shaky districts could even vote against them, since it wouldn’t affect the outcome.
#47 February 22, 2011 at 10:04 am
Oldpuppymax commented:

It’s been quite remarkable to see a REPUBLICAN actually exhibit some spine. Walker has surprised a lot of skeptics by not folding up like a typical Republican politician. But actually FIRE people who deserve to be fired??? I’ll believe it when I see it. After all, that limp Republican blood is still flowing through his veins.
#48 February 22, 2011 at 11:49 am
greenfairie commented:

Yes! Another conservative man with a spine!
#49 February 22, 2011 at 2:55 pm
roni commented:

Let em have it Gov!!!