Thursday, June 9, 2011

Quotable

The quote of the day is from Sheila Cochran, secretary-treasurer of the Milwaukee Labor Council, on the problems Milwaukee County seems to have even sitting down to the negotiating table, much less reaching an agreement with the unions:
Calling Abele’s letter a “clarion call to act for the taxpayers,” Sheila Cochran, secretary-treasurer of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, led other community leaders in asking a simple question. “If the county exec is in favor of negotiations, where is the County Board?”

Given that a clear majority on the board actually agrees with Abele, that question crystallizes a mystery to be answered at the next full board meeting – and the Milwaukee community intends to bring a throng of witnesses at 1 p.m. Friday, June 10, at the Courthouse.

“I’m truly disappointed in the board leadership,” said Cochran, pulling no punches in her conversations with constituents and public officials. “Now that Scott Walker is gone, and is demonstrating his lack of leadership on the entire state of Wisconsin and now that the eyes of the world are upon us, can’t we in Milwaukee County go forward?”
From Dominique Paul Noth's article on the Labor Council's webpage. The whole thing should be mandatory reading for everyone.

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