The result of Walker's union busting *should* be . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . a renewed enthusiasm for unionization. Public employee unions should be standing taller and louder all across America. Private unions should be supporting them and using their example to grow their own numbers.

That's what should happen. Too bad Americans don't see it that way. They started to believe the lie with Patco. That lie has become The Truth. The majority of Americans happily do things that are counter to their own best interests. People making what is at best middle class wages, people with dirt under their finger nails, truck drivers and clerical workers, phone solicitors in boiler rooms, all too many of them proudly decalre their opposition to unions.

That Patco lie was an early salvo against our fundamental security that continues to pay dividends all these years later.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Even if we win, this isn't a short, there and back again adventure.

It took generations for Union members to gain the rights Walker wants to strip away in the face of murder and other mayhem done to anyone demanding the right to decent wages, an 8 hour day, an end to child labor, and the right to collective bargaining.

This is going to be a long process and creating Unions where ever people work is just the beginning.

[provis99]

2. You're right, unionization is a generational process.

But the current protests are a nice poke in the eye to the Republicans and other union enemies.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. The current protests do two things:

(1) The take a stand against the Republican/Conservative/Corporate move to end worker rights of any kind in the U.S, because Union rights are worker rights.
(2) They show contemporary Americans, many of whom have seen generations of anti-union propaganda, the important role unions play in our lives and history.