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Republicans have declared all our war on unions in Wisconsin and in other states as well.

I've never seen anything this drastic in my entire lifetime.

The newly elected governor of Wisconsin, Republican Scott Walker, has a new Republican

state senate and a new Republican state assembly.

With all this power he's wasted no time putting forward a bill to make it illegal for public

sector workers to bargain on anything other than wages.

The bill would also make it much easier to get rid of public sector unions altogether

and he's going after public workers right away demanding steep cuts and benefit packages

for all but the police and firefighters.

Many state workers are looking at losing as much as $6,000 to $8,000 a year.

And Walker's even threatened to call out the National Guard to take anyone's job who refuses

to go along.

This smacks a pre-new deal strong armed tactics but the problem is the new deal and the

Wagner Act failed to guarantee state workers the right to organize.

The Republicans have been gunning for them ever since as public workers have become the

most unionized sector in the country.

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