Another Anti-TAA Editorial

From the dear Badger Herald:

"We call on appropriate law enforcement officers to take note of the illegality that has been perpetrated on the UW's campus over the past 48 hours and to prosecute the TAA's membership accordingly."

Among those who have actually tried to justify the relevant anti-strike laws instead of just using them as a component of anti-union rhetoric, the claim is that strikes by public employees hurt the public rather than just a company. This is disingenuous. The term "public employees" means that we are employed by the public. Therefore, the employer from whom we withhold the labor for which many feel inadequately compensated is "the public." Keep in mind that when the state's chief negotiator characterizes the governor's stance as political, that means he is thinking about the will of the people of the state of Wisconsin. So unless you are a student from out of state - and I of course know there are many - you are not in a formal sense an innocent bystander in this dispute.