WI Supreme Court upholds Gov. Walker's collective bargaining law changes

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Ever since Gov. Scott Walker was elected in Wisconsin, the various public employee unions have been out to get him and overturn his key legislation.

They failed to get any long-term impact in running a recall election against him, failed to get enough judges outsted to vote in their favor, etc., and have now failed at the WI Supreme Court in their argument against him.

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More than three years after its passage sparked massive protests that jammed the Capitol Square, the state Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a divisive state law that sharply curtailed the collective bargaining rights of most public workers.

In a 5-2 decision, the court said that public workers in Wisconsin do not have a constitutional right to bargain collectively.

“We reject the plaintiffs’ argument that several provisions of Act 10, which delineate the rights, obligations and procedures of collective bargaining, somehow infringe upon general employees’ constitutional right to freedom of association,” Justice Michael Gableman wrote for the majority.

“No matter the limitations or ‘burdens’ a legislative enactment places on the collective bargaining process, collective bargaining remains a creation of legislative grace and not constitutional obligation. The First Amendment cannot be used as a vehicle to expand the parameters of a benefit that it does not itself protect.”

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