Just a few guesses:
The 'employer' of public sector union workers is the public itself or taxpayers, and subjects have been interpellated as or convinced to see themselves, first and foremost, as oppressed taxpayers. Such is the power of ideology. At any rate, we don't have direct class struggle against capital here, so it's possible that anti-union sentiment does not translate into pro-capital sentiment. It seems that the public, overwhelmingly in the non-unionized private sector, was not convinced that there was much in stronger public unions for themselves; on the contrary. The UAW's Treaty of Detroit however seems to have raised wages overall, and the wider public seems to have understood the general benefits of strongly positioned unions in the so-called Golden Age. Walker must be trying to turn the anti-public union sentiment into a more explicit pro-capital program. He may still not be successful. LR
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