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Expect more protests. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned a previous judge’s ruling on the recently passed anti-collective bargaining bill, signed into law by Republican governor, Scott Walker. This means that thousands of public employees across the state will lose their right to collective bargaining. The law hits Wisconsin teachers the hardest. None of this comes as a surprise. After the election victory of David Prosser earlier this year to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the ruling was all but certain. Whatever your opinion of the teachers unions may be, the act of denying thousands of public employees their right to...

[...]On the most obvious level, teachers unions are taking a pounding because Republicans have gained power in recent state elections, and the GOP has a strong partisan interest in undermining public-employee unions, which provide troops and treasure to the Democratic Party. In Wisconsin, Walker's campaign to restrict the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other groups to the issue of wages is transparently partisan. Exempt from his plan are two unions that supported him politically: those representing police and firefighters. But Walker's argument - that greedy teachers are putting their own interests over the interests of the public - resonates...