Gov. Walker Kills Worker's Sick Leave

Today in the U.S., paid sick leave is a privilege, when it should be a right. Now, in the wake of his recent bid to end the collective bargaining rights of state employees, Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., signed a bill that overturns Milwaukee's paid sick leave law. Walker was in Milwaukee at the Italian Community Center on Thursday, where he went to offices of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce to sign Senate Bill 23.

This appears to be part of a recent pattern of petty counterattacks against the labor movement by Walker, as this move follows his recent sarcastic program, which claims to recognize state employees for their hard work - after having removed their collective bargaining rights, of course.

Walker maintains that this latest course of action is to remove barriers that hold back job creation - a likely story, of course. Moreover, the Drum Major Institute, in a study that examines the paid sick leave law in San Francisco, found "no evidence that businesses have been negatively impacted by the enactment of paid sick leave." Furthermore, the U.S. economy loses $180 billion each year due to sick employees infecting co-workers because they couldn't stay home.


read the rest at: http://www.peoplesworld.org/walker-signs-a-bill-makes-workers-sick/

All I can say it that this Walker SOB needs to go!

or at least cross posted to General Discussion. It won't get nearly as many views in Editorials & Other Articles.

I'm still relatively new to DU- so I'm still learning :)

but then it will drop down and cannot be kicked to the top. In GD more will see it and every time there is a response your thread will be kicked to the top of the General Discussion forum. I'll do that now.

A whole year to wait? that's a crime.