By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Two years later, Act 10 isn’t any less controversial.
“The results are fantastic for the state. We desperately need a national leader similar to Walker!” Pete Bennington wrote Thursday on Wisconsin Reporter’s Facebook page.
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“Walkers (sic) divide and conquer (act 10) is like saying my gas and light bill coast to (sic) much so I tore down my house look at the money we save now! Wisconsin moving backwards,” Mark Groul wrote.
Wisconsinites likely will never agree on whether Gov. Scott Walker’s systemic public-union collective bargaining changes were the right move for the state. But the law is the law, nevertheless, and its effects are substantive.
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By 2020, Act 10 will save Milwaukee Public Schools more than $100 million a year, according to a report released Thursday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative-leaning education think tank.
A Wisconsin Reporter analysis, meanwhile, indicates that Act 10 has seriously, perhaps mortally, wounded the state’s public unions, which have seen steep drop-offs in the number of dues-paying members.
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