SparrowHawk
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I just found this courtesy of the fine folks at Forbes,
This article is very well done. In fact I'm going to include the link as it seems to address the issue in an unbiased way. A rarity in these times. Whole Story HERE
I have NEVER been a fan of Scott Walker. While I think the budget needed to be balanced and by extension the Unions needed to face reality, the ham handed way that Walker went about these goals was not in his or the States best interest. To me Scott Walker represents everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.
The law as I read it was more to punish labor then it was anything else. Are some of the provisions working? YES they are, but at what price? What have the citizens of WI given up to achieve some of the more worthy goals of the law?
Federal Judge Strikes Down Part Of Scott Walker's Anti-Collective Bargaining Law
A Wisconsin federal district court judge has ruled that some key elements of Wisconsin’s Act 10—Governor Scott Walker’s anti-collective bargaining law—violates the equal protection rights of affected state employee unions.
The ruling extends to the law’s prohibition of automatic dues collecting and the requirement that the affected unions hold annual recertification elections requiring a majority of the union’s workforce members.
At the heart of the court’s ruling is the exemption Scott Walker gave to police and firefighter unions who remain free to automatically collect membership dues and require no annual recertification vote.
Walker has long claimed that these unions were given special treatment because the state could not afford a strike or any disruption of the critical services provided by police and firefighters as a result of being saddled with the restrictions placed on the general service unions.
The remaining unions have never bought the explanation, believing that the exemption was payback for the support given to Walker’s candidacy by the police and firefighters. Clearly, Federal District Judge William Conley agreed, writing in his ruling published today,
This article is very well done. In fact I'm going to include the link as it seems to address the issue in an unbiased way. A rarity in these times. Whole Story HERE
I have NEVER been a fan of Scott Walker. While I think the budget needed to be balanced and by extension the Unions needed to face reality, the ham handed way that Walker went about these goals was not in his or the States best interest. To me Scott Walker represents everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.
The law as I read it was more to punish labor then it was anything else. Are some of the provisions working? YES they are, but at what price? What have the citizens of WI given up to achieve some of the more worthy goals of the law?