Wisconsin Anti-Union Bill passes with 17 Republican votes. It never was about the budget after all.

The RECALLS must go forward.

I don't see why Democrats and unions have to make budget concessions now.

I would think the unions across the State would consider a strike in protest of violation of the public trust.

I would expect the unions to begin litigation as soon as the Governor signs the bill.  It is a federal law they are tampering with.

GOP rams anti-union bill through Wis. Senate (click title to entry - thank you)

End run around Democratic senators who left state to prevent passage

NBC News and msnbc.com

updated 10 minutes ago 2011-03-10T00:41:28

MADISON, Wis. — Republicans pushed a provision stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights through the state Senate Wednesday evening by separating it from Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget bill.

The action, if it stand, would have the effect of rendering moot a Democratic attempt to keep the provision from passing the Senate. The vote in the Senate was 18-1. No Democrats were present.

All 14 Democrats had left the state to prevent passage of the overall budget bill in opposition to the collective bargaining rights.

The Senate is split 19-14 with Republicans in the majority. Because the union provision was part of a budget bill, Republicans in the Senate needed at least 20 senators present for a quorum....

This is a direct attack on the American Middle Class while corrupt Republicans pander to their cronies.  There is nothing else that adds up.  The bill, as it stands, has nothing to do with the budget. 

The Republicans lied from the beginning and they continue to carry out an agenda that threatens Middle Class families.

Unfortunately, the GOP had a lot at stake in Wisconsin.  Their new Chairman was running scared that the Republican majority was actually failinig to 'deliver the goods.'  There was a lot at stake.