Tag: Act 10

This is good news for City of Milwaukee employees. The City of Milwaukee’s proposed 2015 budget would give pay raises of 3.9% to 2,331 workers next year to compensate them for state-mandated pension contributions, Mayor Tom Barrett said Monday. The pay increases would cost the city $4.8 million, according to…

It should surprise absolutely no one that Gov. Scott Walker is considering expanding the anti-union restrictions of Act 10 to police officers and firefighters if he wins reelection. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said this week that state Republicans might expand the state’s controversial restrictions on collective bargaining to the…

This is disappointing, but not at all surprising, given that the State Supreme Court is firmly in the pocket of the right-wing special interests that helped elect the conservative majority. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers, sparked massive…

Back in 2011, Gov. Scott Walker made it clear that while he wanted to cripple public employee unions through the passage of Act 10, public employees would still have some of the strongest civil service protections in the country. At the time Gov. Walker unambiguously stated civil service laws would…

Last week I noted Republican State Assembly candidate Justin Moralez had not answered (after a week) a question I asked regarding his stance on Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s notorious anti-public employee legislation, and shortly after I posted about the fact that Moralez had not answered my question, he sent…

Here’s what I asked Republican State Assembly candidate Justin Moralez a week ago on Facebook: Since posting my query to Moralez, he has posted a number of posts to his Facebook page…..yet not a single word in response to my question. I guess I’ll just keep waiting.

As reported by Jack Craver in the CapTimes, there’s one thing Democrats Mary Burke & Kathleen Vinehout and Republican Scott Walker seem to agree on: public employees should continue to pay increased health insurance and pension contributions. Although Mary Burke, the only declared Democratic candidate for governor, has said she…

I’ll admit that I have not yet made up my mind about which Democratic candidate (if any) I’ll support in the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial primary. While I absolutely love that Democratic State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout has been unambiguous in her support of reinstating collective bargaining rights for public employees, I’m…

From my email inbox: MADISON – State Representatives Chris Taylor (D-Madison), Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) announced today they will introduce a bill to reinstate the collective bargaining rights Governor Walker and legislative Republicans stripped from public workers last legislative session. “I helped implement collective bargaining in…

Over at Cognitive Dissidence, Jeff Simpson is on the offensive against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke on the issue of the restoration of collective bargaining rights for public employees. At the root of Simpson’s attack is Burke’s response when asked about Act 10, Gov. Walker’s union-busting, collective bargaining-eliminating legislation by…