Portions Of Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law Struck Down By Federal Court By Amanda Terkei | HuffPost | 03/30/2012 4:46 pm WASHINGTON Just over a year after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a measure taking away most collective bargaining rights for public workers, labor unions scored a victory as a federal court struck down portions of the law. The court ruled that the state cannot prevent public sector unions from automatically deducting dues from workers' paychecks and cannot require them to be recertified annually. The law, known as Act 10, requires most public sector unions to hold annual votes on whether a majority of its members want to recertify the union. It also took away the rights of some unions to automatically collect dues from members' paychecks. The court kept most of the law in place, but it ruled that the state did not have the power to pick and choose which unions could deduct dues. Under Act 10, only "public safety unions" -- those representing firefighters and police officers -- could continue to take out payments automatically. "So long as the State of Wisconsin continues to afford ordinary certification and dues deductions to mandatory public safety unions with sweeping bargaining rights, there is no rational basis to deny those rights to voluntary general unions with severely restricted bargaining rights," the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin concluded. The decision added that the state of Wisconsin had "apparent, if not actual, favoritism and entanglement in partisan politics by discriminating in favor of fundraising efforts on behalf of public safety unions over general employee unions." U.S. District Judge William Conley rejected the argument that Act 10 violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, but he ordered the state to "return to automatic dues deductions for all members of public unions no later than May 31, 2012." The case was brought last summer by a group of unions, including the Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin. (Read the full opinion here.) "While we're pleased that Scott Walker's transparent attempts to destroy his political opponents have been ruled illegal under the First Amendment, this ruling only raises the stakes for the upcoming recall elections," said Kelly Steele, spokesman for the labor coalition We Are Wisconsin. "The reality remains Walker lied his way into office by concealing plans to wipe out 50 years of collective bargaining, and the fight continues until workers rights' to negotiate for fair wages and safe working conditions are fully restored." Walker's office did not return a request for comment. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/scott-walker-anti-union-law_n_1392372.html ....... The chips begin to fall for our illustrious governor from Wisconsin as over 900,000 signatures (only 350,000 needed) were submitted for the recall of Governor Walker who must be having a hiss-fit about now. Wisconsinites have raised a nationwide interest in their effort to get rid of republican Walker, who lied, cheated, and shoved the people of Wisconsin by claiming his governorship would be for the people, but within two weeks of his inauguration into office gave lucrative no-bid contracts to the Koch Brothers who financed his way into the governorship. Gov. Walker proceeded to force the majority of the Legislature pass laws dumping all workers rights by outlawing unions in Wisconsin. Democrats were forced to flee the county to avoid the bizarre, draconian vote, with Gov. Walker illegally sending State Troopers to find them, while over 100,000 voters stampeded the Legislature, made the whole scene totally bizarre. Gov. Walker is reportedly a activist tpublican bag party member, which he did bot mention during the election process. The Wisconsin historical political scene wavers betwen the Democratic and republican party majorities, depending on the current political issues, and Governor Walker should have seen this coming. He completely underestimated the courage, intelligence, and the will of the people who had been dealt a stealthy, underhanded, bill-of-goods by a bought and paid for politician, who, once gaining office, acted like a nazi tyrant making him the most recent republican that once in office left the pretext of working for the people of Wisconsin to immediately start working for his behind the scene financial mentors. I applaud the people of Wisconsin who had their votes count twice, first inadvertently toward such chaos, pain and suffering, then who have demanded the recall of this modern-day Jekyl & Hyde governor as their right of retribution for the temporary overthrow of Democracy in Wisconsin. If it could happen in Wisconsin, it could happen anywhere in America.
so the left had to get activist judges to do the dirty work since the majority of citizens in Wisconsin are on the side of Walker. And those 2 initials pieces of the law that are allegedly struck down only hurt the citizens of the state as well as the members. Taxes pay for the collection of those dues at the expense of the people. NOT the Union. ANOTHER Expense americans have to take on for the benefit of union blackmailers. Secondly, union members are being manipulated. They aren't even aware how much is being taken from their paychecks for NOTHING except keeping the union elite in hefty cash and electing corrupt democrats.
Clearly. Wisconsin voters do not care for Unions. http://campaign2012.washingtonexami...ial/unions-not-popular-voters-michigan/456031
...... I don't know Wisconsin, but there must be an honest Independent or Democrat somewhere in that state, don'cha think?
ROFL! How very hypocritical of you... everyone just do a search on this site of threads started by Agent_286 with Limbaugh in the title... you will get a dozen hits in the last few weeks alone. Suddenly, he does not want Limbaugh in his threads?
Well applaud them a third time Agent...for giving Democrats and Union Slobbery an absolute ass whooping..... ...In Yo Face..... . . .
All the ruling means is that the law must be written to include preventing ALL UNIONS from automatically extracting extortion fees from workers who CHOOSE TO BE IN THE UNIONS. It has NO EFFECT on the MEAT OF THE LAW, which made it ILLEGAL for UNION-DOMINATED SHOPS TO FROCE PEOPLE TO JOIN THE UNION, TO WORK THERE. Your "big win" is nothing more than WINDOW DRESSING....get back to SLAPPING BARRETT for CONCEDING HIS ASSWHUPPIN'
That's a very ignorant statement obviously coming from someone who has no knowledge of dues check-off. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
I'm not 100% sure I understand what the law does, but if I'm right I think ti works like a right to work law correct? Oh and he already beat on recall vote, why not another
You won't find an honest democrat in U.S. District Judge William Conley's office. He's a lib hack legislating from the bench.
This is great news. Labor does all the work and creates all the value in this economy. They should be able to unionize and level the bargaining field. Why there are rank and file employees on this site stabbing them in the back is beyond me. You are either management or you are labor. If you're part of labor, get with the program and stop selling out the interests of your peers. Got that?
"Right to work" another freeloader's paradise. The union bargains all the benefits and here comes the freeloading RTWers that don't want to pay for it. What a shock. Must be today's libertarian party...bunch of spoiled ungrateful punks. Like Society was built for their enjoyment without taxes. It was the magic of the free market. Welcome to the world of Illusion.
What would liberals do if not for the occasional liberal judge holding out on their opinions - baseless though they may be - to preserve the totalitarianism of liberalism? They cannot get their views passed by vote on these matters; Wisconsin is against the notion of forced dues collections; the Wisconsin voter is against the unfounded notion of allowing a PUBLIC union to collectively bargain with the same politicians to whom these same unions donate millions to get elected... ...so here we have Unions that are so delightful that they have to FORCE people to be a member, and FORCE money from their paychecks to continue to support the metastic mass. Uh huh. Liberals are despots..
They don't even want to be part of the union! Why? Because they have decided that they can represent their INDIVIDUAL value on the market better than the representation of the Union that they've grown to abhor! Do you really need me or anyone else to post examples of Union Thug Tactics? Uh huh. I think the one with the wool being pulled over their eyes isn't who you think it is. Union Thug Tactics at Wisconsin Choice School
Yep, definitely Limbaugh conflicts with his/her/it Huff postings. But it's frequent on PF these days for the lefties to demand only their "approved" sources be recognized as legit. It's new "progressive" (head in sand) norm.
Perhaps, but if federal law establishes the process, I am not sure that states may add additional restrictions without federal authority like they can with environmental regulations.
