Tempers Explode as Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Taking Away Union RightsSHAME! COWARDS! State Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, and other Assembly Democrats approach the front of the chamber in outrage as their Republican counterparts cut off debate and voted on the union busting bill at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., early Friday morning, Feb. 25, 2011. (Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King) MADISON, Wisconsin -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/25