Here's what he had to say:
The working men and women of Wisconsin have endured so much already at the hands of Scott Walker and they are demanding change. Tom Barrett always cared about working families and the middle class when he was mayor of Milwaukee. I am confident he will still practice the same values and beliefs as the governor of Wisconsin.
Tony Cornelius, president of Teamsters Joint Council 39 in Wisconsin, explained why the Joint Council endorsed Barrett.
We were pleased to strongly endorse Tom Barrett because he pledged to fight to restore full collective bargaining rights for workers and bring new jobs to Wisconsin.Despite Walker’s claims that targeting unions and collective bargaining was a way to balance the Wisconsin’s budget, the state has actually lost thousands of jobs over the past 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, Wisconsin has the worst job-creation record of all 50 states because of Walker's austerity program.
As Milwaukee mayor, Barrett fought to ensure that public employees had a voice in the workplace by implementing “meet and confer” language to require labor/management discussion and by extending protections to employees who lost their rights under a state act.
Meanwhile, Ridgeway, Wisconsin, resident Gerald Koerner offered 40 more reasons in The Cap Times. You can read all of them there, but we thought we'd share our five favorites:
2. Brags about jobs while state has worst record of job loss in nation
18. Favors elimination of worker rights and bargaining.
19. More money and tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, but less for working poor
36. Hates public employees but loves outsourcing and private special interests.
37. Preaches “less government” but created 32 pages of rules to limit access to our Capitol.Pretty good start, don't you think?
