Wisconsin governor and flailing Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is a very desperate man who, accordingly to recent polls, has seen his support drop to 3 percent and 2 percent.
Walker's campaign announced a reboot last week which will focus on 'wreaking havoc in Washington' but apparently he intends to wreak havoc nationwide with a purge of all unions. Moreover, Walker would roll back President Obama's executive orders on paid sick leave, among other things.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
If elected, he would also cancel President Barack Obama's Labor Day order that federal contractors provide paid sick leave and work to end policies requiring some salaried workers in the
private sector to receive overtime — saying in some cases they should get time off instead. [...]His plan — all but impossible to pass, according to one observer — goes further than what he's done in Wisconsin and would decimate private- and public-sector unions.
During a speech in Las Vegas today, Walker will reportedly call for abolishing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as well as all prevailing wage laws. He will also call for implementing "right-to-work" in all 50 states.
What Walker is calling for would make life much worse for damn near everyone that works for a living, not just those who belong to a union.
Repealing prevailing wage laws nationwide would decimate the construction and private contracting industry while implementing right-to-work would depress benefits and wages for everyone. Dismantling the NLRB would be felt anywhere and everywhere workers have been mistreated, from factories in middle America to delivery drivers and fast food workers.
I don't expect a majority of Republican voters to recognize that what Walker is proposing could ruin their lives, but his proposal goes so far I do expect at least some of them will see it as desperate and unserious.