There will ALWAYS be a need for Unions. BUT, not the powerful ones we have now. Just like our TOO Powerful Federal Government, they both need to be taken down several pegs.
Unions, will be very hard to tame. The Federal Government, I'm afraid, will be near impossible.

Natural and Unnatural Rights and the “Right” to Collective Bargaining:

A child is born and has natural rights such as the right to protect himself from the world. He also has the rights to move about freely, associate freely, and speak his mind against his government without fear of recrimination. He has the right not to be searched or to have his property seized or to be tried other than by his peers or without due process. Yes, all of these rights seem natural and it seems proper to consider these the natural rights of all people.

Once they become adults, people are free to negotiate in commerce and elsewhere, and are free to negotiate the terms of their employment. If they own businesses that employ people, they are free to negotiate with employees these terms of employment. These, too, should be considered natural rights that free people should possess—whether employee or employer.

But then, about one hundred years ago—well into the industrial age—employers were deemed to be taking advantage of employees and great theories of social inequality took root. One particular result was the creation of a collective bargaining right that forces employers to negotiate with all of their employees as a single entity. While this right obviously sounds good to some people, it should be clear that it provides an unequal coercive power to the group of employees over the employer. (If, at the use of this disgusting term employer, you feel the need to use alternate terms such as "fat cat" or "greedy bastard", feel free. It won’t affect the conclusion.) If a large corporation such as General Motors is faced with a walkout by its entire workforce, thus costing it perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars, GM is likely to provide whatever salary and benefits are demanded by the group in order to avoid a prolonged shutdown. If defined honestly, this is called coercion. In other quarters it is called a right.

When the employer happens to be an elected official or government bureaucrat, the negotiations are so much the easier because the employer has no need to make a profit and, better yet, is now negotiating with other people’s money. (There may even be instances of buying votes by over-giving during negotiations (gasp), but we can leave that phenomenon alone for now.) After such negotiations continue for a sufficient number of decades and with an ever-growing group of employees, it eventually (as in “now”) becomes clear to any sensible and intelligent person with a calculator that the promises that have been made by politicians—the most glaring these days being pension obligations—are impossible to keep. This is the eventual consequence of the enforcement of an unnatural law during the eight or so decades when most citizens weren’t paying very close attention to the cookie jar.

I don’t blame people who are facing stagnating wages and reductions to pension and healthcare benefits for being mad. But they should be mad at the politicians who over-promised with other people’s money rather than at those other people (more commonly called taxpayers, stooges, or stupes) who can no longer pay the tab. And as for the completely lopsided right to collective bargaining, it will eventually go away, simply because we as a group can no longer afford it. As can be seen by the heat in Wisconsin, though, it is unlikely to go away through calm realization and concessions by the overpaid and over-benefitted. It is almost certain that it will go away only through a very long period of ugliness and likely, before it is over, violence.

Free Market Underdog

Obviously the Dems in Wisconsin were massively out spent by conservatives. The recall effort became an experiment to determine whether an honest grass roots effort could be mounted to overcome the power of money. The Democratic Party in the state is made up of a dedicated core surrounded by a fearful, play it safe body that has been beguiled by promised lower taxes and uncertainites about losing what they think they have. Add the ties of the Party itself to dependence upon Big Money, lack of imagination, and the nagging reality that they may not win and malaise and resignation surface. Yes, we may not win but there should be a plan for for another battle.

I'm getting a feeling that somewhere the fix is in. It may be close but in some back room the Dems have been persuaded not to fight too hard, or only hard enough just to lose. This call to progressive people to help try to save the day shows that the Democratic party machine has not been unleashed to win in what you would think was an imperative situation. Those good people of Wisconsin who have tried so very hard are about to learn that the two party system is in reality fake, a sham and a fraud on the American body politic. But all is not lost forever. What those good people did discover was their power. It's just that in this case they've been played for fools. Next time they'll make sure to have their own candidates and party, not the Democrats. Guess we'll all find out on Tuesday.

They voted for this freak, not thinking he would go after them. They say 39% of UNION people are pro-Walker. Now, there IS some degree of logic to reducing 90% salaries to RETIRED cops, firefighters, etc. Cost of living increases EVERY year?
Seems FAIR to reduce these "cushy" pensions, considering, huh? BUT, to get rid of collective bargaining, to get elected on a "jobs" platform and an "anti-Obamacare" ticket.. (suckers), then BE CAUGHT lying to congressional committees, supporting the monied interests (Koch conversation, or the wealthy SCUZZBALL woman billionaire), well THAT seems to suggest Sociopathy and downright GRIFT.
But the voters, VOTED this creep in. They got their heads bumped and NOW, over time they are getting convinced that he is the "best thing" since "white bread."

If he gets to keep his office, unions, progressives, liberals and working-class (including YOU "wanna be middle-class), are TOAST!!

Bring your jam and butter, fools. You SHOULD have been EDUCATING these "citizens" rather than "laughing" and whining at the "nutty" GOP.
Who are the nuts? You will see.
Blame the dummy voters. But, in REALITY Walker is sleaze, as are the others who got elected in 2010.
Conned you fools. Good talkers, sociopaths with agendas and BIG money backing them, masquerading as "everday people" with a grudge.
The Tea Party Express conjob, courtesy of the big money marketing and advertising PhDs.
You are DONE wortking class get used to it. Now let's get back to blaming Greece or China for this country's mismanagement.

The way I see it, if the people of WI vote to keep Walker, then they shouldn't cry when he jams a big red, white and blue dick up their asses. If the people want Walker and his policies, then they should have him--and the consequences that follow.

What's interesting is that police and firemen who supported walker were all ok with union busting--until it came to their homes. Fuck you. I hope you get what you deserve, hypocrites.

It's perfectly understandable that the movement to remove Walker is backsliding. To make a prediction, it's a preview of the national elections in November. After all, what are people's choices? We have been forced by the media and our own fears to choose between a Republican and a Democrat and the leaders of both parties have consistently demonstrated that they will only support Big Business. So why should progressives participate when the shaft they'll get just comes wrapped in a slightly different package? At least the Repugnicans don't try to feign loyalty to the People unlike the two-faced Democrats. Still, both choices suck mud.

The Walker recall is about the billionaire Kochroaches, et. al. buying government to transform a One Man, One Vote democratic republic into a One Dollar, One Vote fascist plutocracy.

Wow, did you get that from Fox News?

Did you see the video of Walker promising to bust the unions and make WI a "right to work" state to a multi-millionaire supporter?

This was never about any budget issues, but about enriching the corporate masters, who pay the bills and are funding massive TV advertising, through the Koch foundations and the Chamber of Commerce.