Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
Act 10 in WI: The legislation primarily affected the following areas: collective bargaining, compensation, retirement, health insurance, and sick leave of public sector employees. In response, unions and other groups organized protests inside and around the state capitol.
The public sector employs teachers, police officers, firefighters and numerous critical jobs designed to maintain a safe, productive community.
The Act specifically exempted public safety employees such as police and firefighters.

The unions did indeed make all the noise they could. They especially detested the provision that employers would no longer deduct union dues from paychecks, effectively making membership voluntary. The county government I worked for went from seven collective bargaining units to one (sheriff’s deputies). Somehow the world didn’t end.