No kidding ... they held the majority Democratic gov and state legislature hostage and now they don't understand why the Republican gov and state legislature won't "negotiate" anymore.
I saw an article that some news crews had videotaped some teachers getting fake sick slips from doctors on the steps of the capitol building ... I do believe that is fraud, is it not?? And a fireable offense, I might add.
If anyone in the private sector took off work to protest like this they would have to use vacation days or take leave without pay and risk not having a job to go back to. Seems like the same should be in place for public employees who are obviously abusing the system ...
Here's how they played it...
[Doctors from numerous hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to provide notes covering public employees' absences. Family physician Lou Sanner, 59, of Madison, said he had given out hundreds of notes. Many of the people he spoke with seemed to be suffering from stress, he said.]
["What employers have a right to know is if the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician about time off of work," Sanner said. "Employers don't have a right to know the nature of that conversation or the nature of that illness. So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years."]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110219/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_budget_unions