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The impact on the Mets of Mr. Giuliani's public bargaining posture remained unclear yesterday.

Podhorzer said those numbers are the largest he's seen since coming to the organization in 1997, and he attributed much of that enthusiasm to the attacks on public bargaining rights in places like Wisconsin and Ohio over the previous two years.

But Walker could make the state's pension system bear the costs of a broader state budget shortfall -- one created almost entirely by lower tax revenues resulting from the economic downturn -- without raising taxes on public workers or eliminating public bargaining rights.

Of course, part of Brown's public bargain in winning the landslide victory for Prop 30 last November was to give the state a breather in terms of more new taxes.

Various interest groups have attacked unions and encouraged states to roll back public employee bargaining rights or to pass "Right-to-Work" laws, which prohibit collective bargaining agreements from requiring workers to pay union dues.

But Democrats criticized the legislation, saying it effectively eviscerated public employees' bargaining rights and would make it harder for them to stay in the middle class.

The state pioneered many social reforms: It was the first to introduce workers' compensation, in 1911; unemployment insurance, in 1932; and public employee bargaining, in 1959.

Unions plan to run intensive state and local campaigns that go beyond their ongoing effort to recall Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, who pushed through legislation to curb public employees' bargaining rights.

And his campaign, fueled by an spending advantage of more than 7 to 1 over his Democratic opponent, provides a blueprint for elected officials considering a rollback of public employee bargaining rights elsewhere, like Iowa and Minnesota.

To know: Wisconsin Republicans ended a standoff over public workers' bargaining rights, using a legislative maneuver to pass an anti-union bill despite the absence of fourteen Democratic lawmakers.

By Samantha Henig March 10 , 2011[ image: /photos/590954ea019dfc3494e9ea73] To know: Wisconsin Republicans ended a standoff over public workers' bargaining rights, using a legislative maneuver to pass an anti-union bill despite the absence of fourteen Democratic lawmakers.