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Wisconsin has anti-bullying laws covering both school and workplace behavior. Of course, the laws are vague, and what is and what isn’t bullying is left to the machinations of civil procedure and judicial opinion. The latest proposed workplace bullying law is the Healthy Workplace Bill. It reads in part:

This bill provides an exception to that exclusive remedy provision permitting an employee who alleges that he or she has been injured by being subjected to an abusive work environment or by being subjected to retaliation or a threat of retaliation for opposing an abusive work environment or for initiating or in any manner participating in an investigation, action, or proceeding to enforce the right not to be subjected to an abusive work environment (collectively “unlawful employment practice”) to bring an action in circuit court against the employer or employee who allegedly engaged in the unlawful employment practice for such relief as the court may consider appropriate.

Is the above not the perfect description of what United Wisconsin is doing to the taxpayers of Wisconsin? We have been repeatedly bullied for electing Scott Walker. This small (and small-minded) band of bullies has developed and sustained an abusive work environment for all taxpayers, not to mention our elected officials. It’s been one costly temper tantrum after another, with United Wisconsin leading the charge. Now, we’re being bullied again, and no one is stepping up to put a stop to it. (more…)