From the POST-GAZETTE:
Though Republicans have taken over the Capitol and the state faces a massive deficit, Pennsylvania’s public sector unions do not seem headed for a Wisconsin-style budget brouhaha with GOP leadership.
But they do expect smaller fights on a number of other fronts this year.
Teacher unions see the first bill introduced to the state Senate in 2011 — a school tuition voucher proposal — as an attack on their members. Unionized clerks for the Liquor Control Board have declared “war” on impending efforts to privatize state stores. In Pittsburgh, transit workers are steeling themselves for a bill from House Speaker Mike Turzai to open Allegheny County transit services to the private sector…
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