More Than They Bargained For Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin

Name: More Than They Bargained For Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
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ISBN: 9780299293840

ISBN-10: 029929384X

ISBN-13: 9780299293840

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jason Stein, Patrick Marley

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When Wisconsin became the first state in the nation in 1959 to let public employees bargain with their employers, the legislation catalyzed changes to labor laws across the country. In March 2011, when newly elected governor Scott Walker repealed most of that labor law and subsequent ones—and then became the first governor in the nation to survive a recall election fifteen months later—it sent a different message. Both times, Wisconsin took the lead, first empowering public unions and then weakening them. This book recounts the battle between the Republican governor and the unions. The struggle drew the attention of the country and the notice of the world, launching Walker as a…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

JASON STEIN has practiced Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga since 1998. He currently owns Portland Ashtanga Yoga in Oregon.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Actors in the Events


Chronology



"Put Up or Shut Up"



A Preacher's Son



"Open for Business"



"The First Step"



"Dropping the Bomb"



Laboratory of Democracy



First Protests



The Interstate to Illinois



First Assembly Vote



A State Divided



The Beast from Buffalo



Lost Sleep and "Hallucinazations"



The Capitol in Lockdown



"Seven Thousand People in the Statehouse"



No Deal



End Game



Rebukes and Recount



A Court Divided



Recalls



Recalls Redux


Conclusion


Notes


Index