WISCONSIN BATTLE IN A NUTSHELL: SELFISH UNIONS WON'T PAY FAIR SHARE

NYTIMES EDITIORIAL:

Benefits for Wisconsin’s state workers are currently quite generous, but they weren’t stolen. They were negotiated by elected officials and can be re-negotiated at the bargaining table if necessary.

Most pay only 6 percent of their health care premium costs and Governor Walker wants to double that. The average employee contribution to premiums around the country, public and private, is 29 percent. Most state workers contribute almost nothing to their pensions; he wants them to pay 5.8 percent, which is a little less than average for government workers around the country.

THE VERY LEAST THE GOVERNMENT UNIONS CAN DO AT THIS TIME OF NATIONAL AUSTERITY IS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.