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Wis. Judge Tosses Out Most of Walker’s Anti-Labor Law
The progressive ^ | 9/15/2012 | Matthew Rothschild

Posted on 09/16/2012 5:11:34 PM PDT by listenhillary

On Friday afternoon, a Wisconsin judge dealt governor Scott Walker a big blow by ruling against the anti-labor law that Walker railroaded through last year.

Dane County circuit court judge Juan Colás ruled in favor of the Madison Teachers, Inc., and a public employees’ union in Milwaukee in tossing out most of Walker’s controversial law.

The judge found several key sections of the law to be violating the state’s constitution and the U.S. Constitution and deemed them “void and without effect.”

These sections included:

--requiring a referendum for wage increases above the cost of living for municipal and school district employees

--limiting traditional collective bargaining rights to public safety and transit unions (Walker’s effort to divide and conquer by exempting police and fire fighters)

--prohibiting payroll deduction of dues from all other public sector unions

--prohibiting municipal employers from bargaining on anything but wages for all other public sector unions

--imposing steep certification and recertification requirements for all other public sector unions

--prohibiting the city of Milwaukee from making the employee’s share of pension fund contributions.

The judge ruled that these sections of the law “infringe upon the rights of free speech and association guaranteed by both the Wisconsin and United States Constitution.”

He also ruled that the law violates the equal protection clause because it treats public and transit unions differently than other unions and other organizations.

And he said the section of the law that related to Milwaukee employee pensions violated the Home Rule Amendment of the Wisconsin Constitution.

Walker denounced the decision as biased by a “liberal activist judge” and said the administration would appeal.

Meanwhile, labor unions in Wisconsin rejoiced.

“As we have said from day one, Scott Walker’s attempt to silence the union men and women of Wisconsin’s public sector was an immoral, unjust, and illegal power grab,” said Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. “Now a court has ruled that the essential provisions” are unconstitutional.


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To: centurion316
Working on a translation of this guy's name I looked very closely at the second part ~ 'colas' ~ and that seems to mean something like 'tail' although there's another term 'culo' that gets near to the problem, but doesn't quite hit the target.

Picking "Tail" as the root of the meaning, and noting his first name of 'Juan' or "wan' the best fit is WANKER!

21 posted on 09/16/2012 6:34:14 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: listenhillary

A lot of judges are going to need to be replaced.


22 posted on 09/16/2012 6:34:56 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: muawiyah

Whatever his hobbies may be, I’m sure that devotion to justice are not among them.


23 posted on 09/16/2012 6:54:19 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: listenhillary

Walker should pull an “Obama”.. Ignore the judge and continue doing what he’s doing.


24 posted on 09/16/2012 7:18:22 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: listenhillary
So if a judge wants to stiff the executive and legislative branches of government, why don't they impeach her and jail her. Teach her and her fascist cronies a lesson.
25 posted on 09/16/2012 7:27:41 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: JCBreckenridge; All
"They’ll fight this one until the end."

C'mon END!!! That's exactly where we should be heading with our efforts on all this goofy government excess.

Only trouble is, our side seems all to willing to retire after a small percentage of progress toward that END!!!

This nation is up against the debt wall and too broke ignore the whole operations END!!!

It's no longer a matter of commonsense, compromise or especially, victory by incrementalism. It's time to WIN all the way to the END!!! NOW!!!

26 posted on 09/16/2012 9:17:49 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("The New Normal," is FAR from any normality!!!)
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To: muawiyah

Wah? Are you tryin ta pin the danged tail on the donkey???


27 posted on 09/16/2012 9:19:37 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("The New Normal," is FAR from any normality!!!)
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