Wisconsin: Ground Zero to Save Public Worker Rights

The treason of the media has been evident for generations…but what else could we expect from such vital resources being owned by the plutocracy, the chief originators of society’s problems? And media maggots like Joe Klein and Tom Friedman are always in plentiful supply. 

• Disregarding all important stories, or upend their meaning (present people or institutions that fight for the public interests as villains or pariahs pursuing antisocial ends. This naturally includes unions.)

Wisconsin: Ground Zero to Save Public Worker Rights

By Stephen Lendman

His type governance, that is, and from administrations that followed, Democrats as ruthless as Republicans.

For decades, bipartisan consensus [has] governed lawlessly, waging imperial wars, trashing human rights and civil liberty protections, unabashedly backing monied interests, letting them loot the federal treasury, fleecing working Americans, and targeting organized labor for destruction.

• forfeited security through lost benefits and pensions, including for retirees, besides everything lost in 2007 under Bush.

It also would have strengthened Wagner Act provisions to unionize, bargain collectively through chosen representatives, and provide other worker protections. It would have leveled the playing field to empower them more than since Taft-Hartley weakened them significantly. 

Big Media Bashes Labor

CNN is just as bad, competing with Fox for bottom-of-the-barrel honors, but nothing on corporate TV or radio has merit. Nor in print; to wit, Time magazine’s Joe Klein (left) in his February 18 article headlined, “Wisconsin: The Hemlock Revolution,” saying:

No wonder observers call WJS opinion writers the print version of Fox News, both Murdoch owned, his editorial policy rigorously enforced.

Foreign Affairs; An American in Paris,” saying:

“The most important thing (Ronald) Reagan did was break the 1981 air traffic controllers’ strike, which helped break the hold of organized labor over the US economy.” Crushing workers gave US corporations greater flexibility to invest in new labor-saving equipment, technology and methods to cut staff, pay less, and achieve great cost savings, said Friedman. He practically gloated about the collapse of labor rights, weaker now after a decade under Bush and Obama.

Obama backs the same policies, enforcing them since taking office.

A Final Comment

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