Tag: Act 10

Gov. Tony Evers has proposed his new biennial budget and contained within said budget is a provision that would roll back much of the anti-worker Act 10 that was enacted by former Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican cronies in the legislature. In one of his boldest moves, Evers called…

No, me neither. And I don’t remember them screaming in the faces of the Capitol police…

One of the hallmarks of public education in Wisconsin is the locally elected school board. Local individuals who are invested in the results of public education can run for their local school board. Or if not on the board they can reach out to their local representative to have their…

Eaerlier today The Guardian posted a comprehensive article outlining the depths of the efforts by conservatives to help reelect Gov. Scott Walker after it became clear Gov. Walker would face a recall election after he “dropped the bomb” on public employees via the infamous Act 10. While I encourage you…

Earlier today Democratic State Reps. Jocasta Zamarripa, Christine Sinicki, Tod Ohnstad, Robb Kahl, and Rep. Jonathan Brostoff wrote an op-ed for the CapTimes outlining all the bad things Republican efforts to “reform” Wisconsin’s civil service laws would do. Here’s a snippet. While Republicans deconstructed Wisconsin’s historic campaign and ethics laws…

Wisconsin…..where lobbyists are in charge of setting policy. Personal email records received by 27 News from the office of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) show a high level of coordination between senior members of the administration and a number of Republican lobbying groups during the battle over collective bargaining rights for…

As noted by CapTimes reporter Mike Ivey, a new report by the Pew Charitable Trust showed Wisconsin with the largest decline in the nation in the percentage of families considered to be middle class. If you feel like you’re working harder for less money, it’s not your imagination. Wisconsin ranks…

For many public employees, Act 10 truly was a bomb dropped squarely in their laps. Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called “Budget Repair” bill, was less about repairing a hole in Wisconsin’s budget and more about crippling a political enemy of Republicans – Wisconsin’s public employee unions. In the wake…

This is worth a read… If Walker could travel to that other universe — the one where he negotiates with unions instead of breaking them — here’s what he would find: The budget deficit is closed through negotiated employee concessions, cuts to programs and a little fiscal magic. There are…

This is a powerful video. My own thoughts on the impact of Act 10 on public employees are well-documented, but Monologues of Dissent summed up my thoughts perfectly. This is my boat, and the boat of so many other state workers who were barely getting by prior to the “modest…