In early March, 2012, unions and conservative groups had
already “turned Wisconsin’s battle over labor rights into a national,
multimillion-dollar war.”[1] In 2011, the two sides had spent $44 million in it.
The unions began an effort in that year to recall Scott Walker, the
government’s figurehead and chief executive, and several senators in
Wisconsin’s Senate “after they pushed through legislation restricting the
collective-bargaining and organizing powers of workers belonging to
government-employee unions.”[2] While this depiction is cogent—a battle over labor
rights involving legislation restricting collective-bargaining rights for
government employees—I contend that the assumed linkage between the battle and
the recall is deeply flawed.
The full essay is at "Scott Walker's Recall in Wisconsin."
