Madison Rallies Over Workers Rights and Compensation

UPDATE MARCH 1: 
Democratic lawmakers are stating that Wall Street Governor Walker must be willing to compromise before they return from their hideout in Illinois. However, is compromise the right approach? Perhaps there have been too many compromises made by working people. Perhaps it's time to catch up not give in.

So far, as of March 1, workers may not be staying in the streets, but they are in the streets in their demand for a decent lifestyle based on  fair share. Madison. Chicago.Across America

I can't help but see this as a woman's issue.

Most teachers and nurses are women, and these working professionals are among the lowest paid professionals in the workforce. If I were doing a feminist comedy skit, I might connect Walker's attitude to his having mother issues.

In another skit, we can situate Walker at the ovens of patriarchy, which must be fueled at any cost.

On the serious side, kind of, several years ago, I had the chance to sit in, as an observer, on a negotiating contract meeting, in a college in Oregon. This is true. It was my first encounter with unions and management. Management came in with no notes. Nothing. A pen, I think. Not even paper. Maybe, a small pad of blank paper that never gotten written on. The union president and chief negotiator came in with not only piles of notes but charts. Management had nothing to say. It didn't even doodle while the union built its case for a cost of living increase, etc. It was clear management planned to say no, which it did, to whatever the union people wanted.

That too deserves a comedy skit.