The Wisconsin Effect

Im U.S. Bundesstaat Wisconsin kämpft der neue republikanische Gouverneur mit brachialen Mitteln gegen die Gewerkschaften im Öffentlichen Dienst, dazu meine neue Kolumne im Social Europe Journal:

With less than six million inhabitants, the U.S. state of Wisconsin is not precisely what one would call a political powerhouse, however, after the newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, unleashed a full scale attack on union rights, the state seems to be competing with Mummar al Gaddafi’s Libya for nationwide attention. Since days now, the public employees unions have been demonstrating against Walkers attempt to strip them off their collective bargaining rights and the senators of the opposition have left the state in order to avoid a vote on Walkers legislation, effectively blocking a decision. Hier geht es weiter