Scott Walker Has Already Won

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Union Membership & Payment Of Dues
In WI Now More Voluntary Than Ever!

This was posted the other day at Weasel Zippers: 


http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/31/awesome-wisconsin-public-employee-unions-sheds-half-its-membership-thanks-to-governor-walkers-law/

62,818 - 28,745 = a loss of 34,073 members since the reforms passed in March 2011, just over a year and 2 months ago.  34,073 x 2 = 68,146, so it is indeed true, if the Wall Street Journal's source is correct, that Wisconsin's 2nd biggest PEU has lost over 1/2 it's membership in less than a year 1/2 after Walker's reforms passed.  


I discussed this issue with Liberals extensively on several blogs & message boards as the fight for reform was underway.  Time & time again their defense of mandatory union membership & payment of dues as a condition of employment  would boil down to this: if you take the job, you are 'volunteering' to join the union, and so you quite logically are 'volunteering' to pay the union dues.  


This was, of course, complete BS.  It was BS then and it's BS today.  I told them REPEATEDLY the moment people in WI could stop paying the union dues AND keep their jobs they were in a HUGE FREAKING SURPRISE. 


Anybody think the over half of former union members that have ditched the unions & have ceased paying forced dues are going to vote tomorrow to GO BACK to the old system? 


Lets see a show of hands!