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Judge Strikes Down Key Parts Of Walker’s Anti-Public Employee Union Law
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 30, 2012 04:19pm |
| Category | Legal Ruling |
| News Date | Mar 30, 2012 03:35pm |
| Description | A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled key parts of the state’s law restricting public employee union rights unconstitutional.
The decision was handed down by District Judge William N. Conley, who was nominated to the bench by President Obama in 2009, and confirmed by the Senate in 2010. Conley found that parts of Act 10 violate equal protection rights, the Wisconsin State Journal reports, by imposing restrictions to collective bargaining and mandatory dues collections, and requiring annual recertification on most unions but exempting them for police and firefighters.
In response, Conley has handed down an injunction requiring a return to automatic dues collections, and forbidding the annual mandatory recertification elections by an absolute majority of workforce members.
Conley wrote: “So long as the state of Wisconsin continues to afford ordinary certification and dues deductions to mandatory public safety unions with sweeping bargaining rights, there is no rational basis to deny those rights to voluntary general unions with severely restricted bargaining rights.” |
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