VOTERS SIDE WITH SCOTT WALKER… Only 38% Support Radical Gov Union Workers

48% of US voters support Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in his efforts to reduce the state’s deficit. Only 38% side with the democrats and government unions in the dispute.
Rasmussen reported:

A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and nearly half side with the governor.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

In an effort to close the state’s sizable budget deficit, Walker is proposing to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees including teachers on everything but wage issues. He is excluding public safety workers such as policemen and firemen from his plan.

#1 February 21, 2011 at 10:29 am
8675309 commented:

Part of the reason for the 38% is misinformation. My wife works in a school. When she first heard of this, she was shocked, because the information being spread in the school was that the governor was eliminating health insurance and was forcing the unions to disband. They made a point of him being a Republican. when she got some hard news, she wasn’t sympathetic any more.
#2 February 21, 2011 at 10:31 am
Khan Krum commented:

I’m actually surprised that the differential isn’t greater (to our favor)… I suspect it will be once more of the &*%$ hits the fan. Don’t such polls lag a bit behind anyhow? I think that over the weekend more and more opinion was turned against these communist slug-parasites.
#3 February 21, 2011 at 10:33 am
rabble-rouser commented:

I can understand the union members concerns over this, but my goodness, healthcare and retirement pensions are not a right. These are extra perks if your employer offers them. Since when to public officials get bargaining rights anyway. If you work for the state and its taxpayer money that creates your income, then the taxpayer decides your wages and benefit package. Guess what, the private sector feel the economic pinch, why is the public sector exempt. I don’t begrudge union workers, but if those teachers taught in my school district, I would say get to work or you are out of work. Same goes for the disappearing senators. spineless a**wipes
#4 February 21, 2011 at 10:47 am
Ed commented:

that would be over 60% if the MSM would’ve performed its obligation to the public and place more focus on union corruption and how it promotes laziness, waste, and forces the growth of government via its public sector unions so called “right” to collective bargaining agreements!

GOP governors would do well in following Gov. Walker’s initiative and start pushing back the parasitic unions in their own states. every time taxpayers see examples of idiotic union demands like the Milwaukee teachers’ unions Viagara legal fight, unions will always lose the PR battle!
#6 February 21, 2011 at 11:02 am
Joanne commented:

Or the alternative is mass layoffs. Union members will cut of their noses to spite their faces at all costs.
#7 February 21, 2011 at 11:10 am
Bog & Bam commented:

Rasmussen polls are always slanted and questionable. Never underestimate the power of people in the streets. Look at the Tea Party, people power. Unions don’t represent your views? Doesn’t matter. Walker has backed himself and the Unions into a corner. This will grow and grow, the Unions have no choice.
#9 February 21, 2011 at 11:27 am
kansas commented:

Time for lay offs.
#10 February 21, 2011 at 11:56 am
Glenmore commented:

38% is a lot. And it is higher than it was Saturday. The union position is gaining traction.
#11 February 21, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Ed commented:

not only are Wisconsin public school teachers part of a parasitic union, a lot of them are also hypocrites (so do a lot of public school teachers nationwide):

http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=17927

“In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans. ”

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a lot of them don’t want to send their kids to the same schools that these public school teachers are underperforming in!
#13 February 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm
No Man commented:

That tells me 38% of the respondents work for the government or are on food stamps.

Obama’s strenuous efforts to drop kick all of us to an equal level of desperation and destitution are failing, thank God.
#14 February 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

48% of the people realize we are broke. 38% don’t give a damn.
#15 February 21, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Michelle commented:

Here is something else that will solidify support. I am a classroom teacher ( NON union supporting) and I think tax payers would be enraged to know that because of No Child Left Behind there is a program called SES, Supplemental Education Services where tutors work with no more than six low income/ low performing students. I have myself done this twice and the pay was $50.00 an hour! I thought it was outrageous and I would have done it for much less but…. that was what they paid us. Someone who is a better researcher than I can verify this information and maybe it will go viral? So when I saw some Wisconsin teacher whining about having to take “second jobs” I literally laughed out loud! These are the only second jobs teachers take!
#17 February 21, 2011 at 8:41 pm
sampson commented:

This isn’t about budget, this is about the right to negotiate. NEGOTIATE. If you are a working person, public sector or no, you ought to appreciate what negotiation has given all of us. The weekend, decent pay, overtime. Unions can be corrupt, but so are corporations, the government and anything people get involved with. Unionization came out of necessity, because the labor force, not united, were weak and easily mistreated. There’s a long and ugly history of attacking Unions in this country,( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States ) including the use of hired mercenaries. Furthermore this deficit was created by Governor Walker himself– ( http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html ) so this whole thing seems like a calculated attack than a necessity, think about it. Unions represent workers and working people, this isn’t about budget this is about taking away their right to represent themselves by collective bargaining. All private employees have that right all people should have that right.
#18 February 21, 2011 at 10:47 pm
silentcal_rox commented:

Fire the parasites! Bust the Unions!
#19 February 22, 2011 at 11:42 am
Oscarphone commented:

Sampson @ #17 is either misinformed of a liar. Whichever the case, he’s wrong. This is not about the right to negotiate globally. This is about the union right to collectively bargain for BENEFITS only. This action is also by necessity, the state is (states are) BROKE. In my state the public sector union retirement benefits are 19 billion in the hole and getting worse every month. It is easy to see that these benefit packages, that have nothing to do with contributions by the employee, are not sustainable.

Collective bargaining for state employees is a fraudulent action. A monster kickback scheme so that unions can drain treasuries and corrupt politicians can get re-elected. In my state the governor was (conveniently) bargaining wages and benefits during her reelection. The unions got everything they asked for and shortly after, surprise, surprise, forty grand ended up in her campaign coffers from the those very unions, filtered through the state Democrat apparatus.

And then I’d like to beg the question: If Big Government is so benign and helpful, why do it’s workers need a union in the first place? I say they don’t. Government unionism should not be tolerated.
#21 February 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Len Lelko commented:

Walkers way is to bring back basics. Start with the company store. State funded apartments in our soon to be abandoned offices would also be a better way to control these working people. Instead of paying them we should categorically give them ration cards.If they start trouble we could drop them to a lower category with a smaller ration card. Company profits would sore and we could become wealthy off them.
I just love Conservatism
#22 March 1, 2011 at 9:37 am
stwing commented:

After working in a union for 30 years i am in totally embarrassed by by the behavior of my so called brothers.When the company i worked for shut the doors i didn’t see our senators fighting for us, or the state employees coming to our aid to support us in the fight to keep our jobs (thats right it didn’t affect them ). Gov Walkers proposed budget will definitely affect the state workers, but let me tell you his proposal will far exceed the alternative. (unemployment, no insurance or insurance with a unfordable premiums ).