It's back to the drawing board for Wisconsin activists.
Business unionism has prevailed for over 60 years in the US labor movement, since the CIO expelled 11 left-led unions in 1949. By "business unionism," I'm referring to a form of unionism that only focuses on the wages, working conditions and benefits of their own members, regardless of impact on other workers. (If benefits extended to non-members, that was ok, but that was never the intention or purpose.) It is, quite frankly, collective individualism. It doesn't care about others--it is the epitome of the "I've got mine, screw you, Jack" culture and society that predominate in the US today.