Given that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may face a recall election in the near future, it’s worth taking stock of why he has so outraged organized public workers in his home state and around the country. The pro-reform MacIver Institute describes a number of the provisions in Walker’s new Compensation Plan:

[D]epartment heads will now be given the freedom to assign overtime in an efficient manner without regard to seniority, a move that will save more than $5 million in one state agency alone.
The bulletin board provided to post information about union activities can now be used for other matters
Taxpayers will no longer finance paid time off for union activities
Nearly 38,000 state employees will be eligible for Discretionary Merit Compensation based on Merit, Pay Equity, and Retention. Before Governor Doyle got rid of DCA’s (similar to the new DCMs) most union contracts prohibited merit from being a consideration
One contract allowed Police Communication Operators who work through lunch and bring a lunch a reimbursement of $4 a day for a bag lunch. This is eliminated
Another contract allowed certain nurses and nursing assistants an extra dollar an hour for mentoring. Mentoring is now considered a part of anyone’s job
Most provisions granting extra pay for carrying a beeper were eliminated

I also recommend Steven Malanga’s post on the growth of state and local government in Ohio, which offers some context for the defeat of SB 5:

From the 1980 census to 2010, Ohio’s population has grown less than 7 percent. But its public sector workforce has increased by 17 percent. That’s a far faster rate of growth of the public sector relative to its population than most states. At the same time taxes have soared, so that today, the state’s tax burden is 18th highest, and significantly, its business tax burden is 10th highest. No wonder that executives surveyed by CEO magazine

As Ohio goes …