Barack Obama in Unintimidated, by Scott Walker

On Jobs: No assault on unions: don't denigrate public employees

Of course, we had not "vilified" anyone. If anything, I had bent over backward to avoid criticizing public workers. Moreover, we were giving our public workers in WI a much better deal than President Obama gives most federal workers in Washington, DC.

To the contrary, Obama unilaterally froze their pay--and he didn't have to get permission from a union steward to do it. If limiting collective bargaining in WI constituted an "attack on unions," then why didn't the president champion giving collective bargaining powers to workers at the federal level?