Russ Feingold: “I am sorry to say is yes. Increasingly, through the 1980's and early 1990's, there were systematic efforts in certain…”

“I am sorry to say is yes. Increasingly, through the 1980's and early 1990's, there were systematic efforts in certain places to use permanent replacement workers. Among the ones that stick out is what happened to people in De Pere, WI, when International Paper chose to use permanent replacement workers. I held a hearing as a State senator, at the time, and heard some of the most compelling and troubling testimony I have ever heard as an elected representative from families that were broken by the loss of that job security that the Senator has described. In fact, I am quite sure that some of those folks were forced from being workers to being on welfare, as a result. I saw the same thing near Milwaukee, in Cudahy, WI, another very tense, and difficult, public hearing when the story of that situation was laid out. Closer to my own home in Madison, WI, a lot of pain, a lot of hurt, and a lot of destruction of family--another value that the new majority likes to talk about.”