Written on February 16th, 2011
Edited in April 2014
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Public employee unions could negotiate on wages: YES
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Public employee unions could not negotiate on health benefits or
vacations: NO
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Public employee unions would have to negotiate every year, and wages
would be frozen until a new contract is made: NO (I am open to the
idea of making negotiations take place more often, but going from
once every four years to annually seems drastic)
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Annual secret ballot on whether public employees want to stay
unionized: YES
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Public employee unions could not get salary increases above the
consumer price index except if approved by public referendum: NO
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Public employees would pay 5.8% more for their pensions and 12.6% for
their health coverage: YES
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The State of Wisconsin would stop collecting dues for the public
employee unions: NO
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Home health care and family child care workers would no longer have
the authority to collectively bargain: NO
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UW Hospitals and Clinics employees and UW faculty and academic staff
would no longer have the authority to collectively bargain: NO
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Public employees could opt out of union dues-paying if they wish: YES
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Wisconsin would not become a right-to-work state for all areas of
employment: NO
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State and local employees would have the right to refuse to join
unions: YES
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Use the National Guard to suppress strikes which disrupt state
services such as prisons: YES
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Fire 6,000 state employees if the measure does not pass: NO
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Fire the striking teachers and the missing Democratic legislators:
No Opinion
If
I were running Wisconsin:
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All union collective bargaining would be free, open-ended, and
frequent
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All types of employees would retain the authority to collectively
bargain
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Public employee unions would have the responsibility to collect their
own dues without help from the state government
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Individual employees would be free to choose whether to join unions
and pay dues to them, joining a union would never be a precondition
for employment, and refusal to join a union would never be a
legitimate reason to fire an employee; arguments about free-rider
problems are invalid because the notion that increased benefits are
inherently good can be questioned - increased benefits can impede
incentive to hire
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Prison employee strikes and strikes in situations in which strikes
could undermine public safety would be suppressed by the National
Guard if necessary
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