Tag Archives: Wisconsin

Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstates collective bargaining law

Journal Sentinel: Supreme Court reinstates collective bargaining law

Madison – Acting with unusual speed, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial plan to end most collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers.

The court found that a committee of lawmakers was not subject to the state’s open meetings law, and so did not violate that law when it hastily approved the collective bargaining measure in March and made it possible for the Senate to take it up. In doing so, the Supreme Court overruled a Dane County judge who had halted the legislation, ending one challenge to the law even as new challenges are likely to emerge.

Bigger than Unions, Bigger than Wisconsin

YES!: Bigger than Unions, Bigger than Wisconsin

How Americans across professions, religions, and states are uniting in opposition to Wisconsin’s anti-union bill—and cultivating a movement that reaches far beyond the state border.

Wisconsin Academics Get Expansive Bargaining Bill

FACE/AFT: Wisconsin Academics Get Expansive Bargaining Bill

After 40 long years of advocacy and a roller coaster ride of hopes raised, then dashed, academic employees in the University of Wisconsin system finally have the right to decide whether they will be represented by a union. On June 29, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed the 2009-2011 biennial budget, which includes a provision extending collective bargaining rights to more than 20,000 UW faculty, academic staff and research assistants.

Drug firms’ cash skews doctor classes

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Drug firms’ cash skews doctor classes
Company-funded UW courses often favor medicine, leave out side effects

Do your legs feel tingly? Do you suffer from mood swings before your period? Would you take a mind-altering drug to quit smoking?

If so, the pharmaceutical industry and the University of Wisconsin-Madison want to teach your doctor a lesson.

Carroll U. Does Not Have to Bargain With Faculty Union, Appellate Court Rules

The Chronicle News Blog: Carroll U. Does Not Have to Bargain With Faculty Union, Appellate Court Rules

Carroll University, a private Presbyterian institution in Wisconsin, will not have to bargain with its faculty union because it qualifies for an exemption from the National Labor Relations Board’s jurisdiction on religious grounds, a federal appellate court ruled today.