Walker: Lessons Learned in Wisconsin in 2011

I am not indifferent to the public workers’ plight.

My lack of faith in the current unions as effective champions of workers’ rights has kept me silent so far.  I had reservations about their effectiveness and zeal in putting the membership fee money where their mouths are in actually fighting for their members.

The citizens made their voices heard without any more involvement from the unions than as a glorified mascot of this movement.  When the workers’ rights were threatened the people rose up, regardless of their affiliation with the unions.

But what I’ve realized is: it doesn’t matter how good the unions are at their job.  Walker is clearly out of line, the right to collective bargaining must be preserved.  How people exercise that right (the effectiveness of current unions) is the question to contemplate for later down the road.