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Wisconsin collective bargaining law faces federal lawsuit from unions
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jun 15, 2011 05:48pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | SCOTT BAUER |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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A coalition of unions filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday arguing that the law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking away union rights to bargain, organize and associate and illegally discriminates among classes of public employees. The lawsuit seeks to block portions of the law taking away collective bargaining rights, but allows the higher pension and health care contributions that the unions agreed to take to move forward.
"Scott Walker has created two classes of public sector workers and that is unconstitutional," said Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt. "When a legislature discriminates among classes of workers, especially when doing so has more to do with political payback than with any legitimate reasoning, the law has been violated." |
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