Scott Walker Prepares To Sign Budget That Eliminates The Living Wage And Prevailing Wage
Source: thinkprogress.org
Scott Walker Prepares To Sign Budget That Eliminates The Living Wage And Prevailing Wage
by Alice Ollstein Jul 9, 2015 1:24pm
For months, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has said he wont launch his long-expected run for the Republican nomination for President until he gets his own house in order and signs Wisconsins budget into law. Despite weeks of delays, he still may make that deadline before his planned announcement on July 13th.
After several back-to-back, late night, contentious debates including an interruption by a bomb threat the Wisconsin legislature sent a nearly $73 billion two-year budget to Walkers desk.
Though Wisconsinites successfully pressured lawmakers to take out provisions that would have levied a special tax on bicycles, gutted the states government transparency laws and reduce a planned $300 million cut to universities to $250 million, a host of controversial provisions several of them slipped in at the last minute made it into the final draft.
The 11th-hour additions include a repeal of wage protections for construction workers on local government projects, the elimination of workers right to one day off per week, loosened regulations over payday lenders, and a provision to expedite approval for a tar sands pipeline that would bisect the state. Another change made over the Fourth of July weekend eliminates the states long-standing living wage law and replaces all references to a living wage with minimum wage.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/09/3678542/scott-walker-prepares-sign-budget-eliminates-living-wage-prevailing-wage/
Things are going from bad to worse in Wisconsin.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)with Governor Howdy Doody's hand on the switch.
randys1
(16,286 posts)intersect.
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)Enjoy the ride! You earned it!
demosincebirth
(12,549 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Wisconsin is getting what it voted for.
riversedge
(70,383 posts)us deserve this!! Just saying.
winstars
(4,220 posts)Release The Hounds
(467 posts)the_sly_pig
(741 posts)murielm99
(30,779 posts)Some of these things may be unConstitutional.
cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)that addresses wages.
Owl
(3,646 posts)AngryDem001
(684 posts)You evil, heartless, pandering, soulless, hollow, non-human, vile, loathsome PIECE OF SHIT!!
Anybody got some other words they would like to add?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)They_Live
(3,242 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)it was possible, but Wisconsin's legislature is even more f'ed up than Florida's. Wonder what the Union members who voted for this turd think now...
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,364 posts)Blue Owl
(50,536 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)" loosened regulations over payday lenders". With that, everything else makes sense. Workers are going to go to these predatory lenders who charge usary rates because they aren't able to make enough with that elimination of the living wage. The crafters of this shit know that people are going to go to those lenders, no choice.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Walker's gonna make the next TEN even worse.
EEO
(1,620 posts)MADISON, WISCONSIN (The Nil Admirari): Republican Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker signed a $73 billion two-year budget today that will establish a feudalistic system throughout the state beginning in January 2016. The budget from the Republican-dominated legislature mandates all residents of Wisconsin who do not make at least $250,000 annually will be serfs tied to specific portions of land owned by a wealthy lord they are legally required to provide labor for.
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