Published: November 17, 2011
Tags: collective bargaining, Marty Beil, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin State Employees Union, WSEU
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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Republican-controlled legislative committee on Thursday approved the first Wisconsin state employee pay plan created under a new law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers, despite objections from those who will be covered by it. The plan, put forward by Gov. [...]
Published: August 31, 2011
Tags: AFSCME, collective bargaining, Marty Beil, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin State Employees Union
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin State Employees Union wants state lawmakers to pressure Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to begin negotiating with it over salary increases for 22,000 state workers. The union sent letters Tuesday to state lawmakers from both parties to follow up on its request made to Walker’s [...]
Published: May 26, 2011
Tags: collective bargaining, Ismael Ozanne, J. B. Van Hollen, lawsuit, Marty Beil, Mary Bell, Maryann Sumi, Scott Walker, Supreme Court, unions
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TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The fight over stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin’s public workers will move into the state Supreme Court, and possibly back into the Legislature, after a judge ruled Thursday to strike down the law that passed despite massive protests that paralyzed the Capitol. [...]
Published: February 18, 2011
Tags: collective bargaining, Marty Beil, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin State Employees Union, WSEU
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the state’s largest public employee union says the workers are willing to make financial concessions to Gov. Scott Walker but will not give up their collective bargaining rights. Thousands of people have descended on the state Capitol this week to protest a Walker bill that would require public [...]
Published: February 14, 2011
Tags: AFL-CIO, Balistreri, collective bargaining, Danny McGowan, Department of Health Services, Frank Lasee, Marty Beil, Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades, Samantha Kerkman, Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Walker, Teamsters, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Wisconsin State Employees Union, WSEU
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin unions were mobilizing Monday to fight Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to remove nearly all collective bargaining rights for public employees. They don’t have much time. The Legislature is moving quickly to pass the proposal, perhaps as soon as Thursday, which Walker said is needed immediately [...]
Published: January 30, 2011
Tags: AFT-Wisconsin, Mark Miller, Marty Beil, Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin State Employees Union, WSEU
Comments: 1
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Forcing concessions from state employees is a popular talking point for Gov. Scott Walker and one that likely will find a central place in his first State of the State speech on Tuesday. Publicly at least, union officials say they want to keep talking with Walker. [...]