"That will be pretty costly," Walker said. "But I think it's pretty clear that the big government labor-union bosses that have been fighting the reforms in Wisconsin now for the past month and a half, I don't think they're going to give up."

"We're giving people, the workers in our state, the right to choose whether they want to be in the public-employees union, and whether or not they want up to $1,000 a year to come out of their paycheck, or whether they want to better spend that on their families, their healthcare, and other things in their life," he said. "That's what really is at the heart of it."