Behind closed doors, Scott Walker, the Republican who has been Wisconsin’s governor for about six weeks, calmly described his intent to forge ahead with plans to cut benefits to public workers and to sharply curtail collective bargaining rights in the state… "I’m sure we’re going to hear more from other states where Republican governors are trying to heap the entire burden of the financial crisis on public employees and public employees unions," said William B. Gould IV, a labor law professor at Stanford University and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. "I think it’s quite possible that if they’re successful in doing this a lot of other Republican governors will emulate this."

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by Monica Davey, The New York Times.

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