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Bargaining temporary, and we have heard back from the teacher whose said that is unacceptable and collective bargaining is the essence of union strength and you cannot touch it and we have seen democrats try to change the dialogue instead of trying to get one more democrat into the senate to complete the quorum they want to get three senate democrats, pardon me, three senate republicans to change the majority. >>shepard: thank you. the fight in wisconsin is not stopping at the bother, other republican governors are trying to cripple the unions in their state and union leaders see the protests ...

Person is trying to do. all these people want to get their signs out, keep their numbers out, stay in front of the cameras. meantime, you have the demonstrators, state workers saying they're willing to compromise as it relates to medicaid and their retirement benefits, the pensions. they're willing to ante up for that. what they're not willing to give up on is collective bargaining. that's the essence of union strength. then you have the republicans, the governor, the majority saying there is no room for those people to compromise because there isn't money in the budget. so now you have an imp...

Madison. good evening. >> reporter: capital grounds are swarming with people, putting pressure on scott walker. 14 democrats, however, are missing. those are the state senators that crossed state lines to prevent passage of the budget repair bill. components of the weakened collective bargaining the essence of union strength. >> this is what a governor gets when he threatens the power of the union. >> in a state where teachers' salaries and benefits total to more than $87,000 per year, 2.7% higher than the national average they understand the need to ante up for health care and a pension but t...

Swarming with people, putting pressure on scott walker. 14 democrats, however, are missing. those are the state senators that crossed state lines to prevent passage of the budget repair bill. components of the weakened collective bargaining the essence of union strength. >> this is what a governor gets when he threatens the power of the union. >> in a state where teachers' salaries and benefits total to more than $87,000 per year, 2.7% higher than the national average they understand the need to ante up for health care and a pension but the collective bargain they say is untouchable. >> i'm st...