Published: June 15, 2011
Tags: AFL-CIO, collective bargaining, Doug La Follette, Phil Neuenfeldt, Scott Walker, unions
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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state employees will start paying more for their health care and pension benefits in late August, state officials said Wednesday as a coalition of unions filed a new lawsuit against the GOP-supported plan that strips away collective bargaining rights from most public workers. The announcement [...]
Published: June 15, 2011
Tags: budget, collective bargaining, Department of Administration, Department of Justice, DOJ, Doug La Follette, Mike Huebsch, unions
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state workers will start paying more for their health care and pension benefits in late August. Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said Wednesday that is the soonest the law calling for the higher contributions can be implemented. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a lower court judge [...]
Published: June 15, 2011
Tags: budget, collective bargaining, Doug La Follette, Scott Walker, unions
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s polarizing collective bargaining rights law is set to take effect on June 29 after the state Supreme Court determined that a judge overstepped her authority when she voided the governor’s plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights. The ruling Tuesday evening [...]
Published: June 15, 2011
Tags: budget, collective bargaining, Doug La Follette, Scott Walker, unions
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette says he will publish the law taking away most collective bargaining rights from public workers on June 28. That means the law will take effect June 29. La Follette’s decision announced Wednesday comes after the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a lower [...]
Published: April 7, 2011
Tags: Doug La Follette, union, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Madison (AP) — Wisconsin’s secretary of state has asked the state Supreme Court to drop an appeal made in his name that seeks to overturn a lower court judge’s order barring the state’s divisive new union rights law from taking effect.
Published: March 30, 2011
Tags: Doug La Follette, Ismael Ozanne, Legislative Reference Bureau, Maryann Sumi, Mike Huebsch, Scott Walker, Steve Means, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
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TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans face a new hurdle in their campaign to curb public sector unions’ power. So far Republicans have managed win after win — overcoming massive protests and outmaneuvering Democrats to push their plan through the Legislature, then finding a [...]
Published: March 29, 2011
Tags: collective bargaining, Department of Justice, Doug La Follette, Ismael Ozanne, Kathleen Falk, Maryann Sumi, Mike Huebsch, Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Walker, Steve Means, Supreme Court, unions, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The showdown over Wisconsin’s explosive union bargaining law shifted from the Statehouse back to the courthouse on Tuesday, but it remained unclear when or even whether the measure would take effect. Republican lawmakers pushed through passage of the law earlier this month despite massive protests that [...]
Published: March 29, 2011
Tags: collective bargaining, Dane County District Attorney, Department of Administration, Doug La Follette, Huebsch, Ismael Ozanne, Justice Department, Scott Walker, unions
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s administration insists a new law eliminating most collective bargaining rights for state employees has gone into effect. Other state and municipal leaders who dispute that are looking to a Tuesday court hearing for some clarity on the issue. The latest wrangling over [...]
Published: March 25, 2011
Tags: AFL-CIO, collective bargaining, Doug La Follette, lawsuit, Legislative Reference Bureau, Neuenfeldt, Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Walker, unions
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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans insist that the anti-union law that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol and that is being challenged in court takes effect Saturday because a state office decided to post it online. The head of the office that posted it and a court [...]
Published: March 24, 2011
Tags: 4th District Court of Appeals, collective bargaining, David Prosser, Doug La Follette, Ismael Ozanne, Kathleen Falk, lawsuit, Scott Walker, Supreme Court, unions
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court declined to rule Thursday on whether to allow a law stripping public employee unions of nearly all their collective bargaining rights to take effect, saying the issue should be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s appropriate for the state’s highest court [...]
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