Breaking WI Joint Finance Committe slips Collective Bargaining Changes into Budget at Midnight

[kpete]

Source: Daily Kos

Thu Jun 02, 2011 at 10:36 PM PDT
Breaking! WI Joint Finance Committe slips Collective Bargaining Changes into Budget at Midnight!

by Sand Hill Crane

I have been attending at a fundraising event and just came home to discover that the Republicans on the Wisconsin State Joint Finance Committee are inserting the Collective Bargaining Changes into Budget. This is being discussed right now at 12:31am Central and you can watch it from your computer at www.wisconsineye.org

This is from Peter Barca's Facebook page (Peter Barca is the Minority Leader of WI State Assembly)

If you tune into www.wisconsineye.org you can watch the proceedings of Jt. Finance and see them in what appears to be an attempt to actually make the collective bargaining changes even more restrictive than what the Governor originally proposed. Of course they waited until nearly midnight to take this up!

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Update:
The Motion passed with all of the GOP members voting yes. I can not find the text to this motion online right now. I will add it when it becomes available.

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Update 2

This is from Peter Barca's Facebook page (Peter Barca is the Minority Leader of WI State Assembly)

We all need to get some rest as tomorrow they will be bringing up various key university and environmental issues and who knows what else! Of course as many of you have commented what makes this so challenging is that so often they bring up these detailed changes with no time to even review the documents. Tonight they only gave the Democratic Members 5 minutes to review these revisions before beginning the debate



Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/03/981610/-Breaking!-WI-Joint-Finance-Committe-slips-Collective-Bargaining-Changes-into-Budget-at-Midnight!?via=siderec

[rurallib]

1. This is really government behind closed doors

[qb]

2. I hope the same judge that smacked the Repigs down the first time hits them even harder this time.