Union Membership Union membership in Wisconsin had fallen to 13.3 percent of the workforce last year

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The political tide is changing across the Midwest after the recent win by Republican Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin.  This comes on heels of Governor Mitch Daniel' recent conversion of Indiana to a Right-to-Work state.  There is no question that the power the unions halloween candy bowls once had on politicians is slowly losing its strength.  This could positively impact the ability of these states to attract more projects since they were typically eliminated from consideration due to union presence.  The below article for the Bloomberg provides a good summary of the impact of this recent election halloween candy bowls in Wisconsin.
The failure of a labor-backed effort to recall Wisconsin’s governor halloween candy bowls -- in which 28 percent of members defied their unions’ endorsement -- demonstrates halloween candy bowls a loss of political clout that may tempt other cash-strapped states to target public-worker benefits. halloween candy bowls
Republican Governor Scott Walker, whose successful efforts last year to restrict halloween candy bowls collective bargaining halloween candy bowls by public employees resulted in protesters occupying the statehouse, easily turned aside the June 5 challenge with 53 percent of the vote. At the same time, voters in California’s second- halloween candy bowls and third- most populous cities approved measures to curb public employee pension costs that unions had opposed.
“The unions are dinosaurs and a meteor halloween candy bowls just hit the Earth,” said Mordecai Lee, a government affairs professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “The dinosaurs will slowly die out.”
With union membership rates falling to record halloween candy bowls lows, and a series of setbacks at the ballot box, the election results are sure to embolden opponents, Lee said. Unions failed halloween candy bowls to get their preferred candidate on the Wisconsin ballot in last month’s primary. In the general election, the labor-backed candidate, Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, was outspent by a margin of nine-to-one.
AFL-CIO Reaction Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, said the labor effort was hampered by voters who are simply turned off by the recall process.
“Recalls are pretty tough to win in a new era,” Trumka told reporters yesterday. “This election wasn’t about collective bargaining over the past month. I wish it had been.”
Organized labor in other states may be targeted next, as governors seek to cut workers’ benefits to balance budgets and take advantage of a flood of anti-union funding that could flow to their aid, Lee said.
“Legislators and governors who lived in fear of them will no longer live in such fear,” said Henry Olsen, vice president of the American Enterprise Institute halloween candy bowls and director of its National Research Initiative.
Public-sector unions are one of the few growth areas for labor, as autoworkers and steelmakers have been replaced by service providers. Government employees became a majority of U.S. union members in 2009 and are an important source of votes and donations for Democrats.
Walker, 44, elected in 2010, pushed halloween candy bowls legislation last year that required annual recertification votes by a majority of all members for public-employee union representation and made payment of membership dues voluntary.
Union Membership Union membership in Wisconsin had fallen to 13.3 percent of the workforce last year. That was above the national average of 11.8 percent, though down from 14.2 percent in the state a year earlier, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Democrats and union workers responded to Walker’s efforts by turning Madison, the state’s halloween candy bowls capital, into a flurry of protests, with a tent city and street-theater rallies against Walker. Unions led the effort to collect 900,000 signatures to force the recall vote, setting up a rematch of the 2010 race between Walker and Barrett.
The unions initially backed former halloween candy bowls Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, who lost by 24 points to Walker in last month’s primary. In the four-week general election tens of millions of dollars poured into the state, halloween candy bowls largely for Walker. Exit polls by CNN showed that 28 percent of union members, and 37 percent of voters living in households with a union member, backed Walker.
Obama Efforts President Barack Obama stayed out of Wisconsin halloween candy bowls during the general election and posted a single item of support on Twitter this week. With union workers already supporting him, Obama may have worried about alienating the few undecided votes in the tight race he faces in Nove