There’s talk of a general strike and I’m guessing the recall effort just got a huge burst in excitement as well as funding. What happened? The Wisconsin Senate just passed the anti-union bill it had been trying to pass for weeks now. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t claim to understand just how a bill that is supposed to save the state money isn’t considered a fiscal bill, but that’s the claim. I suspect this will play out both in the courts and in the ballot box over the next few months.
#WiUnion
Brian Spears
Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.