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The (Sad) State of Collective Bargaining Recall Walker T-Shirts Were a Busy Sideshow During the MALC Town Main Injured Party Is Not Unions -- It’S the Public Hall Dec Vol. 71, No. 12 Thursday, December 22, 2011 The (sad) state of collective bargaining Recall Walker T-shirts were a busy sideshow during the MALC town Main injured party is not unions -- it’s the public hall Dec. 7 at Serb Hall that gathered thousands of petition signa- By Dominique Paul Noth tures and trained hundreds to go get more. See photo Page 12. Labor Press Editor RELATED t wasn't just unions that Scott Act 10 Nuts and Bolts Walker cut out of 50 years of Page 3 Ia workable collective bar- The Kleefisch Factor gaining for public workers. A Page 13 vital other party in the process Right-Wing Grumbles was emasculated --- the public. So noted several labor histo- Page 16 rians, including UW-Madison Teachers Radicalized author and associate professor Page 19 Will Jones. "From the very beginning, the law was explicit 1955 and 1965. Both movements that the public was the third were making a similar point -- IT’S WE THE PEOPLE that party whose rights had to be rec- how could America grant basic Walker dumped, explains ognized," Jones said. That human rights to some but not to labor historian Will Jones. doesn't mean just the people the all? public elects. The public itself As was often the case in and its needs overlay any ratio- Union strategies turn Act 10 inside out labor history, said Jones, nal public bargaining system. ome of the largest public unions in Wisconsin Wisconsin was a pioneer, estab- "You keep hearing Walker have openly refused to participate fully in lishing a state law more than 50 supporters misquote Franklin Scott Walker's Act 10, the official name for years ago (1959), three years S Delano Roosevelt," added Jones. his emasculation of their bargaining rights. before President Kennedy man- Those are the false claims that Under the law, they are still forced to follow dated collective bargaining rights FDR opposed public unions. some of the restrictions he imposed once any cur- for federal employees. (One thing he actually said was rent bargained contracts expire - notably no collec- he genius of the pub- that the desire of government tive bargaining on anything except within a narrow lic bargaining law workers for fair treatment and pay corridor and no dues payments through govern- was to recognize that, voice at work "is basically no "T ment paychecks. But they refuse to be pushed into unlike the NLRB, there are three different from that of employees Walker's yearly recertification and other conditions parties involved - the workers in private industry.") that make it sound like Walker determines what a (unions), the public officials and What concerned FDR is that union is. the public - and special rules had with public workers "you can't "We existed long before there was a bargaining to be in place to understand the use the same procedures" estab- rights law," said state AFL-CIO President Phil differences," noted Jones. lished under the National Labor Neuenfeldt, also a leading strategist in the recall What concerned FDR was Relations Act for private industry movement. "We'll thrive long after people have for- that more than profit minded in 1935, Jones noted. The com- gotten who this Walker was." company and its workers were panies are dealing with profits. There are also AFL-CIO unions, some quite involved in the public realm. Directional instructions, maps and records In the public realm it is efficien- respected, sticking with all the conditions of Act 10, have become key to recall planning. Two-party bargaining made submitting to annual recertification and all the other cy of service and even avoidance So more than unions are unhappy about this, sense at the NLRB, "but the requirements. of profit motives. which is reflected in the numbers signing up to same methods couldn't always be In both circumstances, strategy and calculation So in private industry, only recall the governor. Along the way, union leaders involved" -- such as strikes by are involved as well as belief in the US system. two parties are involved - the are bringing resourcefulness to a bad situation, as unions and lockouts by manage- The unions staying within Act 10 understand company and the workers, with are some communities' leaders who don't agree with ment. well that Walker is trying to demean and restrict the NLRB mediating and estab- Walker but quickly and smartly looked around the "And it worked well for a them. They see a number of ways to turn the tables. lishing laws for a level playing corner at what they can do despite of or within his half century," said Jones, looking They can work on the forgotten partner in the public field. legislation. at the history. "In the case of collective bargaining rights law - the public (see "That's one reason it took All that is apparently confounding Walker and Wisconsin teachers, the most accompanying article) - pointing out how many of longer to create a framework for his minions, confronting them with a sophistication famous strike, Hortonville, was the conditions Walker has imposed in Act 10 don't public collective bargaining," they didn't expect from unions and with competition such a rarity because it took a save money but cost future taxpayers in operating said Jones, and other historians for public attention they thought their deep advertis- violation of the bargaining law to expenses and blockage of union expertise that so add that it is not a coincidence ing pockets would scare off. Walker thought his cause it, the refusal of the school quietly anticipated , interpreted and solved work- that public-sector collective bar- heavy-handedness would make unions go away - board to negotiate. Other than place issues. (The issues haven't gone away; it is gaining grew in tandem with the instead he has become their unintentional cheerlead- the freedom of managers to turn to union insight civil rights movement between er, reminding the state and indeed the nation of History continued Page 6 that has been lost in Act 10). what worker rights are. t’s clear from Labor Press interviews that almost Without exposing specific strategies, let's look nobody else wanted Walker to change all this at some reasons for union decisions and some and even many of his supporters didn't realize I results. the degree of damage he had in mind. "Walker up- The AFSMCE units in the state --- three coun- ended a bargaining system that has worked pretty cils, thousands of workers from roads to prisons to darn well for 50 years without having anything bet- parks --- are refusing to submit to Act 10 and are ter to replace it with," one Menomonee Falls Republican told Labor Press. In or Out? continued Page 16 Page 2 — AFL-CIO Milwaukee Labor Press, Thursday, December 22, 2011 Manitowoc Crane stirs up entire state’s unions mong the deceptions such reverse language?) allowing turing story on Page 9. Scott Walker pulled on free hitchhikers -- employees n December 10 at the Athe Wisconsin public who could opt out of paying Manitowoc Cranes was frequent statements that he union dues while still enjoying OMunicipal Baseball had nothing against private sec- the benefits and wages won for Field, 2200 Grand Ave., the tor unions, practically loved them by union negotiators. machinists were joined for a them as "partners" and they The workforce did not just rally by public and private union would be unaffected by the decline to let their rights to a members on their own time and clobbering he was inflicting on voice on the job disappear. They weekend. They chartered busses public workers. said no in a resounding 180-2 or doubled up in cars. It only caused unions famil- vote that they knew also would While the numbers involved iar with his blarney to wonder put them on strike. It's been in the marches and speeches were how long it would take for his years since labor historians heard sizeable, the media reporting was regressive policies to bleed into of such a lopsided decision to certainly bizarre. One FOX sta- the private domain. strike. tion said "hundreds" joined the Wonder no more. Echoing Interestingly enough, the strikers while an ABC affiliate the rules imposed in Walker's Act machinists say they already said "thousands" and had the foot- 10, Manitowoc Crane abandoned agreed to the financial terms in age to prove it. some 60 years of mutual benefi- the deal. The company is holding Members of AFSCME coun- Widespread conviction brought more than a thousand public cial labor/management relations out for union-busting conditions. cils, MTEA, boilermakers, labor- and private workers and their families to Manitowoc Dec. 10 and sought to slip Walker's "jus- Glen Tellock, CEO of parent cor- ers and steelworkers were there to to stand alongside striking machinists. tify your right to live" agenda poration Manitowoc Co. -- as did wave their banners and flags and held press conferences ridiculing Walker had actually brought pri- into its contract demands on its the previous CEO, Terry yell support. the company's approach. vate and public sector workers chief workforce, members of Growcok -- sits on the board of The reaction of unions Private employers who together, strengthening the union IAMAW District 10, AFL-CIO. directors of Wisconsin showed determination. The reac- thought Walker's actions could image and reputation for stand- The company sought to Manufacturers and Commerce, tion of the company was typical, be emulated and make unions ing up. require a costly "recertification" so it no stretch that the union bringing in outside workers in run faster discovered how poorly vote of the union every year.
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