Even Legislators Need To Obey The Law.

Hey, remember last fall when the Democrat members of the Wisconsin Senate skipped town and the Republican members then passed a law basically attempting to destroy public unions. Well the Republicans made one mistake. In Wisconsin, you have to give certain notice before you pass a law. It's sort of part of their sunshine law. Anyway, a judge has struck down the law. The law stated that public sector unions couldn't collective bargain. Which turned those unions into not much more than social clubs. The law exempted unions for police and firefighters. Apparently the legislators felt there would be too much sympathy for first responders while there might be some animosity against teachers. They may have been right in that thinking. Although I can't understand why that should be so. What I really don't understand is why the courts didn't strike down the law based on the idea that it favored some while harming others. That seems to me to be discriminatory. Now, I get it that conservatives don't like unions. Unions generally help liberals in elections. And corporate execs especially don't like unions because they cut into corporate profits. The thing is that corporations feel, rather strongly, that the only thing that really matters is corporate profits. They and they alone should be allowed to decide on anything that affects that bottom line. In fact they don't feel that anyone else should even try to influence those decisions. My honest opinion is that if corporations had their way, the minimum wage would still stand at about one dollar a day, with no paid holidays, no vacations and no sick days. As I've said before, the healthcare plan they would prefer is a pink slip if you get sick or injured. Life wouldn't be much different from the feudal dark ages in Europe. I'm not sure America could have survived under those circumstances. This all proves that  the courts sometimes get it right.