We need "volunteers" and you wouldn't want to have a negative evaluation on your file when the next round of layoffs comes knocking, would you? Wink wink, nod nod...

AND if you don't "volunteer", Bill over there will.

Things don't have to be "mandatory" just to be.....well.....mandatory, right? Anyway, how many people do they actually expect will just "volunteer" for 7 days a week.

The nineteenth century called. It wants its labor laws (or lack thereof) back.

They follow the example set for the current House of (un-)Representatives!

As many posters have pointed out "volunteering" will not be voluntary. It will, for some employees at least, become mandatory.

I'm sure part of the bill would stipulate that such "voluntary" overtime would not be subject to any overtime pay either.

And the pukes can use this as an excuse not to raise the minimum wage. Hey look, if the guy will just work 7 days without a day off, he will make the same as if he worked 5 days a week with a "livable" minimum wage.

These people really do want to turn the American worker into slaves.

France has a mandatory 35 hour work week. Swedish lawmakers will consider a 6 hour work day or 30 hour work week.

We are going in the wrong direction especially when worker productivity is through the roof and corporate profits are at all time highs.

But I'll bet there are enough voters in Wisconsin that will vote these nuts back in (no offense to Wisconsin - it would be same pretty much anywhere).

by Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce.

State Senator Glenn Grothman, where up is down and day is night.

If I was wanting to create jobs I'd make paying OT cost MORE to businesses and find ways to make businesses have to hire more rather than vice versa.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?_r=0

Productivity is up!

It's wages that aren't going anywhere.

What's the point in producing MORE when no one can afford to buy it?

They wanted and believed that the Tea Publican Party were going to take care of them...and it has. But, maybe the next time the people of Wisconsin asked to be f**ked, they should at least get a kiss first!!!

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12354/exclusive-koch-network-funded-ads-telling-voters-recall-not-wisconsin-way

In the final weeks of Wisconsin's 2012 recall elections, a previously-unknown group called Coalition for American Values Action flooded the state's airwaves with over $400,000 in ads that made a unique appeal: instead of promoting Governor Scott Walker or attacking his opponent, the ads attacked the premise of the recall itself. Over pastoral images of Wisconsinites with fishing poles and tractors, viewers were told that "recall is not the Wisconsin way," and to "stop the recall madness" by voting to reelect Walker.

Despite the ads purporting to represent Wisconsin values, funding for the message came from well outside the Dairy State's borders: all of Coalition for American Values Action's known contributions come from an out-of-state group linked to the billionaire Koch brothers.

Coalition for American Values Action reported to Wisconsin election authorities that it spent $400,080 on its "recall isn't the Wisconsin way" ads, but because of an apparent loophole in state campaign finance law, it never disclosed the true source of its funding. Recently released tax filings, though, reveal that the primary source of the group's funding in 2012 was the Center to Protect Patient Rights (CPPR), a conduit for $156 million in political spending raised by the Kochs and their network of funders.

blaming the kocks for wisconsonites lack of involvement is just clouding the issue and lets the people who are really to blame off the hook

Even elected socialist mayors... Very surprising.

Most likely this will pass in WI's repuke majority government. & Wanker will sign w/a vengeance!!!

This bill is yet another sign that the GOP wants to turn back the clock back to the good old days when only white men with property voted

What bullshit. If Democrats don't walk the fuck out on this one, they're idiots.