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Firefighters union. joe, good to have you with us tonight here on the ed show. i appreciate your time. i know it has been a very stressful day there in madison. what actions are you and your union taking against scott walker tonight? >> a tough day for the working middle class in wisconsin, ed. just like governor walker has created these tools for this budget shortfall that he is creating for all municipalities we're using tools, too. the recall elections, economic transparency, and of course the talk of a general strike. and it's something we don't want to do but maybe it's something we have ...

You can protest all you want. >> absolutely. >> you can motivate people to go through the recall process but the fact is that this will be the law. do you think this law will resonate and be so strong with people they would actually strike? would you advocate that? >> well, a strike is the trump card as jim cavanaugh from the south federation of labor said. we got to work on it, put everything into place, make sure emergency operations are in place. it takes a lot of coordination. the general strikes that happened in ontario, that's similar to what happened here in wisconsin. and so we got to ...

Minority leader barka and local unions are planning lawsuits over the way the republicans rammed this bill through. the recall petitions are growing larger by the minute and the public employee unions are even started to use the word "strike." the president of the madison firefighters union will join me momentarily on this program to talk about that possibility. you know what i think? i think governor walker actually wants strike. it would give him the chance to fire strikers just like his hero ronald reagan did back in the '80s. scott walker feels like he is in the driver's seat right now but...

He is about to sign it. i think he is going to do it tomorrow so he can get exactly one more day of press coverage. the wisconsin assembly forced it through late this afternoon and walker vowed to sign it. the governor says this is a victory for the middle class. >> that's what this bill is about. it's about reform. it's about making sure we can put people to work, save jobs, and ultimately balance our budget in a way that protects the middle class here in wisconsin. >> walker is dead wrong. this is one of the biggest attacks on the middle class we've seen in decades. the people of wisconsin a...

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