MADISON (AP) — Governor Scott Walker says President Barack Obama should look to his state as an example of how to improve the economy, rather than criticize his signing of a Right-to-Work bill into law.
Obama issued a statement Monday night, March 9th after Walker signed the bill, saying Right-to-Work "will weaken, rather than strengthen workers." Obama says Walker, a likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, should do more to help working-class Americans "by taking meaningful action to raise their wages and offer them ... paid leave."
President Obama's full statement reads as follows:
Walker says in his statement that the law prohibiting private-sector workers from having to join a union or pay dues gives them the power to choose and provides the state with "one more tool to encourage job creators to continue investing and expanding."
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, a group that advocated for the law has also weighed on on Obama's statement. WMC President/CEO Kurt R. Bauer said:
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