Saturday, March 31, 2012

Federal court strikes down parts of collective bargaining law

CLAY BARBOUR and MARY SPICUZZA | Wisconsin State Journal (123) Comments | Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012 4:00 am

A federal judge on Friday upheld most of Gov. Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining law, but struck down key parts of it by ruling that the state cannot prevent public employee unions from collecting voluntary dues through payroll deductions and cannot require they recertify annually.
The collective bargaining law, also known as Act 10, established a system in which most of the public unions were required to have an "absolute" majority of their members vote every year to recertify — a standard higher than traditionally used. The law also took away some unions' rights to collect mandatory dues and prevented unions from deducting voluntary dues directly out of employee paychecks.

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