Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
http://www.care2.com/causes/in-wisco...es-unions.html

"According to the Madison Capital Times, part of Gov. Walker’s bill strips unions of the right to claim certain work as a “union only” job. As a result inmates have been able to step in and fill what used to be good-wage jobs not for pay, but for time off of their sentences."


"Racine County took advantage of this measure almost immediately, using inmates for landscaping, painting, and other basic maintenance around the county that had previously been done by county workers. Just last year the union had successfully sued to prevent the county from using prison labor in lieu of unionized county workers, but under Walker’s law the union no longer has the right to challenge the move."


Is this a good idea?
IMHO...no.

It opens the door for exactly what Orwell and others fear. Next stop classrooms, and skilled trades, prisoners on work release to construction companies and being bought (like slaves) for use in greedy corporate industries as a way to under cut yet again the working man and woman and force us to feed their profit margin.