WI. State Assembly Passes Collective Bargaining Law

From jsonline: After police carried demonstrators out of the state Assembly Thursday, Republicans entered the chamber and approved Gov. Scott Walker's bill repealing most collective bargaining by public employee unions.
The body voted 53-42 in favor of the proposal, sending the bill to the Republican governor after an epic month of struggle unlike anything in living memory in Wisconsin politics.
All Democrats voted against the bill and were joined by four Republicans - Dean Kaufert of Neenah, Lee Nerison of Westby, Travis Tranel of Cuba City and Richard Spanbauer of Oshkosh. All other Republicans and the body's lone independent, Bob Ziegelbauer of Manitowoc, voted for the bill.
After Republicans cut off debate a little more than three hours after it started, Democrats jumped up to protest. Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) brought a megaphone out from under his desk and through it yelled, "Mr. Speaker, I demand to be recognized."
He was ignored.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/117735163.html
Good for the State of Wisconsin. It shows that the GOP can stand up to the bullies and thugs of the Democratic party and the thugs and goons from the government employee unions and their supporters.

My predictions:
1. Not much will change in terms of working conditions
2. Unions will lose about 25 % of their members
3. Pay will actually go up for the government employees because the CPI will go up significantly.
4. Peter Barca will challenge Scott Walker in the next governor's race. Why else is Barca looking for the spot light and acting like a fool.
5. This will be a non-story in 2 weeks or less. The only time it will be mention will be when it goes to court.
6. Other conservative states will be embolden to try and do what Wisconsin is doing and they will be successful.
7. There will be fewer layoffs in school districts that adopt Walker's rules than school districts that already have settled and will not adopt Walker's rules.
8. There will be fewer State of Wisconsin employee union layoffs as opposed to what would have happened if the law did not pass.
Wisconsin was the battleground state and the GOP won. Elections have consequences.