Some 260 faculty members at UW-Madison have signed a letter expressing concern about Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to deprive public workers in Wisconsin of the right to collectively bargain.
The letter reads, in part: “Collective bargaining has been critical to providing decent standards of living to millions of Americans, playing a central role in the creation of this nation?s large middle class. Unions have also been crucial vehicles for democracy, giving workers a voice in their places of employment and in society as a whole. Curtailing workers? ability to form unions and to bargain collectively can only diminish the economic and political benefits that the practice has brought to our state.”