For someone who cares about an individual's rights and capacity to come to any negotiating table with the ability to represent his/her interest, one good thing that has come from the mess in Wisconsin is that more people are thinking about what the term COLLECTIVE BARGAINING means.
Of course, I also hope that more people also think about level playing fields, and power dynamics.
And most importantly, I hope that folks think less about what public employees have and more about what most workers have LOST -- in terms of health and insurance benefits, and the capacity to work hard and put away enough financial resources to support you once you can't work anymore.
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