Number
101373
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALDS. MURPHY, KOVAC, COGGS, AND BAUMAN
Title
Resolution expressing Common Council support for the principle of shared sacrifice in addressing the State of Wisconsin’s budget shortfall.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the Common Council’s support for the principle of shared sacrifice in addressing the State of Wisconsin’s budget shortfall and calls upon Governor Scott Walker to demand the same health and pension cost-sharing from all public employees.
Body
Whereas, The notion of shared sacrifice has been a mantra Governor Scott Walker has used in his speeches and interviews concerning the State of Wisconsin’s budget adjustment bill; and
Whereas, In its current form, the state budget adjustment bill exempts police and fire unions from collective bargaining restrictions imposed on other unions; and
Whereas, The budget adjustment legislation proposed by Governor Walker would remove the ability of public employee unions, except for police and fire unions, to bargain over pensions and health insurance and would limit those unions to negotiate only on base wages; and
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee opposes the budget adjustment bill’s language that takes away the ability of public employee unions to bargain collectively; and
Whereas, The City does support driving a hard bargain at the negotiating table, and ensuring that contracts with unions protect its taxpayers and offer working environments that are safe, fair and productive; and
Whereas, The City opposes the governor’s efforts to restrict the fundamental practice of workers to organize and bargain collectively; and
Whereas, Republican governors in other states have not provided any exemption to their police and fire unions from fiscal sacrifices; and
Whereas, The governor’s exemption for police and fire union members would have a disproportionate negative impact, as nearly two-thirds of the City’s pension and post-retirement health care liabiliti...
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