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Or go to the PI for a superb essay by Joel Connelly.
Wisconsin and elswhere: Union busting as ‘Seeds of Despotism’
Words from Abraham Lincoln and Charles Woodson best sum up the effort — launched in Wisconsin, fueled by Koch Brothers’ bucks — to seize collective bargaining rights away from teachers, nurses, child-care workers and other government employees.
“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them: Accustom to trample the rights of others and you have lost the genius of your own independence,” Lincoln said 150 years ago. click here for more.
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