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My members didn't understand that the very union they had come to rely on
was in jeopardy as well as their profession.
Until February.
We'd had collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin for over fifty years.
We had the first public employee collective bargaining law in the States.
No one expected that in four days they could wipe it out.
But they could. And they did.
Because all we have left is the ability to bargain over something they call base wages
and they have not defined what that means.
So we don't know.
We don't know what happened to all the schedules that we had,
we don't know what happened to any of the language we had,
but basically, we have lost anything in the contract
that we had sacrificed anything for over the last forty years.