Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
Wisconsin Right to Work Advances
The latest on the Wisconsin Right to Work bill and the surrounding union boss protests. Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice and Jason Stein have the story on jsonline.com. In an abrupt vote recalling the chaotic labor protests of 2011, Republicans pushed so-called right-to-work legislation out of a committee Tuesday night after a day of impassioned testimony…
Read MoreWEAC’s Not the Only One
Apparently other Wisconsin public sector unions are reeling from the curtailment in the scope of monopoly bargaining (Act 10), as reflected in the staggering membership losses experienced by other public sector unions. Robert Samuels comments in the Washington Post. Walker had vowed that union power would shrink, workers would be judged on their merits, and…
Read MoreWEAC Scrambles for Power
Passage of Act 10 gave Wisconsin teachers the power to refrain from supporting or joining a teachers’ labor union in order to get or keep a job. With a 50% loss in membership, the Wisconsin Education Association Council is turning its money and power to local races in an effort to recoup some of their…
Read MoreWisconsin Right to Work Bill Considered
Steven Walters predicts the Wisconsin legislature will seriously consider the Right to Work Bill during this session. The list of other major decisions that Republican legislators will be making–and many of them in the next few months–is stunning: — Right-to-work law: If former Rep. Duey Stroebel wins Tuesday’s three-way GOP primary in the 20th Senate…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips February 13, 2015
Illinois Governor Fights Forced Unionism Western Journalism.com, February 11, 2015 Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation commented on Rauner’s executive order: “This executive action is a bold step to protect the rights of Illinois state employees from being forced to pay tribute to union bosses as a condition of working as a…
Read More‘It’s So Old-Fashioned, It’s A Brand New Idea’  Â
(National Institute for Labor Relations ResearchFact Sheet) Recent State Election Returns Indicate Support For Right to Work Is an Increasingly Valuable Political Asset By Stan Greer On June 5, 2012, Badger State Republican Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a “recall” election. He defeated his union-label Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor…
Read MoreUnions Fail to File in Time, Lose Representation
Two Wisconsin unions failed to file a timely petition to represent several government employees, as required by Act 10. TheWisconsin Public Relations Commission is sticking to its guns, and the law. Molly Williams has the story in Courthouse News. The Wisconsin Association of State Prosecutors and Local 150 of the Service Employees International Unionfiled their…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips January 19, 2015
Public Unions vs. the Public Wall Street Journal Online, January 15, 2015 The facts: Public-sector unions are not underdogs. . . As Mr. DiSalvo shows, public-sector unions are also rich. Taken together, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually lobbying governments on behalf of their members. Our courts have ensured that funding for political…
Read MoreBest Available Evidence Indicates Right to Work Laws Foster Faster Growth in Employee Compensation
As I noted in a post on this web site last week, the editors of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s (MJS) editorial page admitthat state Right to Work laws protect employees’ “freedom to choose whether to be in a union.” But judging by the rest of their January 6 editorial opposing consideration of any Right to Work…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips January 09, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court is One Decision Away from Curtailing Union Power in California Fox and Hounds Online, January 9, 2015 Last year marked a legal turning point for California’s teachers’ unions and public employee unions across the nation. First, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu ruled in June that some of the…
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