Wisconsin's top court rules in favor of new law limiting union rights

[Dos Equis]

This story has fallen off the radar.  Unions strike out again. 

Wisconsin's top court rules in favor of new law limiting union rights
By Scott Bauer
Associated Press
POSTED: 12:33 p.m. HST, Jun 14, 2011

MADISON, Wis. >> The Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Republican Gov. Scott Walker a major victory today, ruling that his polarizing union rights law can go into effect.

In a 4-3 decision, the court said Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi overstepped her authority when she said Republican lawmakers violated the state's opening meetings statutes in the run-up to passage and declared the union rights law void.

The law, which eliminates most of public employees' collective bargaining rights and requires them to pay more for their health care and pensions, sparked weeks of protests when Walker introduced it in February. Tens of thousands of demonstrators occupied the state Capitol for weeks, thrusting Wisconsin to the forefront of a national debate over labor rights.

Walker claimed that the law was needed to help address the state's $3.6 billion budget shortfall and give local governments enough flexibility on labor costs to deal with deep cuts to state aid.

Democrats saw it as an attack on public employee unions, which usually back their party's candidates. Democratic state senators fled to Illinois to try to prevent a vote on the measure, but Republicans got around the maneuver by convening a special committee to remove fiscal elements from the bill and allow a Senate vote with fewer members present. Walker signed the plan into law two days later.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit the next week claiming Republicans didn't provide the proper public notice of the meeting in violation of state law. Sumi first issued a temporary order blocking publication of the collective bargaining law while she weighed his arguments and then last month declared the law void.

Attorneys for the state Department of Justice, representing the Republicans who control the Legislature, asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, in part to speed the process. Walker counted on the law being in effect in the budget he put forward for the fiscal year that starts July 1.

Ozanne had urged the court to let the case work its way through the usual appeals process.

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[MCWAY]

This story has fallen off the radar.  Unions strike out again.  

Wisconsin's top court rules in favor of new law limiting union rights
By Scott Bauer
Associated Press
POSTED: 12:33 p.m. HST, Jun 14, 2011

MADISON, Wis. >> The Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Republican Gov. Scott Walker a major victory today, ruling that his polarizing union rights law can go into effect.

In a 4-3 decision, the court said Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi overstepped her authority when she said Republican lawmakers violated the state's opening meetings statutes in the run-up to passage and declared the union rights law void.

The law, which eliminates most of public employees' collective bargaining rights and requires them to pay more for their health care and pensions, sparked weeks of protests when Walker introduced it in February. Tens of thousands of demonstrators occupied the state Capitol for weeks, thrusting Wisconsin to the forefront of a national debate over labor rights.

Walker claimed that the law was needed to help address the state's $3.6 billion budget shortfall and give local governments enough flexibility on labor costs to deal with deep cuts to state aid.

Democrats saw it as an attack on public employee unions, which usually back their party's candidates. Democratic state senators fled to Illinois to try to prevent a vote on the measure, but Republicans got around the maneuver by convening a special committee to remove fiscal elements from the bill and allow a Senate vote with fewer members present. Walker signed the plan into law two days later.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit the next week claiming Republicans didn't provide the proper public notice of the meeting in violation of state law. Sumi first issued a temporary order blocking publication of the collective bargaining law while she weighed his arguments and then last month declared the law void.

Attorneys for the state Department of Justice, representing the Republicans who control the Legislature, asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, in part to speed the process. Walker counted on the law being in effect in the budget he put forward for the fiscal year that starts July 1.

Ozanne had urged the court to let the case work its way through the usual appeals process.

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It fell off the radar, so to speak, because the liberals FAILED to get the tiebreaking judge, Dave Prosser, voted off the court last month.

But, that was all the talk on the left-winged goofie sites (i.e. Huffington Post).

The libs poured SOOOOOOO much into getting Prosser booted, crying voter fraud, because apparently they think the unofficial AP report that claimed Kloppenberg won was gospel.

The reason it didn't go through the appeals court is because the lefties were BANKING on Prosser being replaced with Kloppenberg, ensuring that Sumi's ruling would be upheld.

Now, to go to HP and hear the weeping and teeth-gnashing.

[Soul Crusher]

There are a lot more right wingers on hp lately. 

The libs are all pissed off about it.

[MCWAY]

There are a lot more right wingers on hp lately. 

The libs are all pissed off about it.

You mean Zsa Zsa STILL hasn't broken them off a piece of that $315 million?

Of course, if AOL just appeals to lefties, they could go belly up.

[Soul Crusher]

You mean Zsa Zsa STILL hasn't broken them off a piece of that $315 million?

Of course, if AOL just appeals to lefties, they could go belly up.

That deal is in trouble.  I really don't even go there any more.   Seeing those delusional libs spout such whacked out nonsense gets old real quick.

[dario73]

Yes. Death to all public worker unions!!!

[MCWAY]

That deal is in trouble.  I really don't even go there any more.   Seeing those delusional libs spout such whacked out nonsense gets old real quick.

But, watching them get their feer rammed in their mouths, when their claims get shown to be woefully FALSE, is almost always a barrel of laughs.

[loco]