From the Milwaukee Journalonline.com - Governor-elect Scott Walker raised the possibility of essentially abolishing state employee unions on Tuesday as one option to control rising employee benefits costs and eliminate the state's budget deficit. Walker, a Republican, said he's looking at a range of options that would weaken unions, including eliminating their ability to negotiate with the state. "Anything from the decertify all the way through modifications of the current laws in place," Walker said at a luncheon sponsored by the Milwaukee Press Club at the Newsroom Pub."The bottom line is that we are going to look at every legal means we have to try to put that balance more on the side of taxpayers and the people who care about services." Walker's comments were an escalation of an aggressive posture he's taken with state unions as he prepares to take office on Jan. 3. Read more
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