Time for second thoughts? A backlash against Republican attacks may be under way
The Economist
It is hard to get away from the subject of union rights in the Midwest these days.
Protesters agitating against moves to curb them could be heard booing and chanting
throughout the “state-of-the-state” speech delivered this week by John Kasich, the new
Republican governor of Ohio. In nearby Wisconsin, the also-new Republican governor is
under heavy fire for having, on March 9th, used a procedural dodge to force through a bill
that will strip public-sector unions of their right to collective bargaining: Democratic state
senators had tried to frustrate him by fleeing across the state line to Illinois. In Indiana, the
state legislature is paralysed too, after its own Democratic flight. Both sides see
ramifications for national politics
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