Wisconsin: Rightwing Groups Try to Stamp Out Local Union Contracts
http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/10/187874/rightwing-groups-try-stamp-out-local-union-contracts
A rightwing legal group is suing the school district, school board, and teacher’s union in Madison, Wisconsin, for honoring a labor contract negotiated before the state supreme court upheld Governor Scott Walker’s divisive Act 10 law, ending most collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
The plaintiff in the suit is blogger David Baska, who asserts that he is personally harmed, as a taxpayer, by a union contract that protects teachers’ wages, benefits, and working conditions. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), the legal arm of the rightwing Bradley Foundation, filed the suit, after successfully suing the school district of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on similar grounds.
Around the same time the suit was filed, Governor Scott Walker blasted his opponent, Mary Burke, for supporting the teachers' contract as a member of the Madison school board, instead of using Act 10 to hold down costs.
The lawsuits in Madison and Kenosha show how aggressive the coordinated rightwing assault on labor rights in Wisconsin has been.
More at the link. The Bradley Foundation makes the Koch brothers look like liberal crusaders.
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