The Revolutionary War - 1688 Words

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson began writing, We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men were created equal... in the Declaration of Independence. He was explaining the reason people were opposing Britain, who was oppressing the colonies with taxes and trade limitations. He felt that the colonists weren t justly represented in Parliament, and hoped this article could amend the damage. Looking back at history, everyone knows that the Revolutionary War happened. Looking in the present, Americans are still being oppressed by the government in other ways besides taxes. State workers are now dealing with an oppressive government that is limiting their rights to negotiate. Current governor Scott Walker legislation, particularly 2011’s†¦show more content†¦About a year later, he announced the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, hoping it would close the deficit gap by limiting collective bargaining rights about salaries increases and cutting retirement fund payments for fed eral workers. If the law succeeded, Wisconsin would be able to close the deficit and get the budget back to pre 2008. As a result, many workers protested against the bill. The main controversy of the bill dealt with the limitation of collective bargaining for the majority of public workers, except the police department and the fire department. On page 896 of the Summary of Provisions of Act 10, the governor states his plan to cut spending by ... [Altering] the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin, with the exception of certain protective under the WS retirement fund or under the city of Milwaukee County Retirement system. There is clear favoritism for the police and firefighters, otherwise there would have been no exceptions for any public worker. It further targets other workers, particularly teachers, with its definition of public workers; classifying all other municipal and public employees, including teachers and employees of the Wisconsin Technical Coll ege System (Act 10). The Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill had limited the essence of labor unions. The bill prevents them from collectively bargaining for anything, except wages (Act 10). Though they take circumstances and situations under