United WI: Appeals Ct ruling "maintains right of public employees to bargain w/employers,

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keeping Walker's power grab in check."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/john-nichols

Some Good News for Wiscosnin

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1. Labor rights are human rights...

"For generations, Americans accepted the basic premise that labor rights are human rights. When this country counseled other countries on how to forge civil and democratic societies, Americans recognized that the right to organize a trade union—and to have that trade union engage in collective bargaining as an equal partner with corporations and government agencies—must be protected.


Now, with those rights under assault, it is wise, indeed, to recommit to the American ideal that working people must have a right to organize and to make their voices heard in a free and open society. As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., said fifty years ago:

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

History remembers, as should we. A recommitment to labor rights is a recommitment to ideals that enlarged America and made real the promise of democracy."

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173272/recommitment-american-ideal-labor-rights-are-human-rights

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2. Excuse me, but I dont' see any mention of an Appeals Court ruling anywhere in the article you cited

am I missing something?

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3. It's not in the Article, but in John Nichols tweet..

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4. Thanks, I would have missed the tweet at the site

because it is in light gray and I am blind in one eye and unsteady in the other.

Here is the link to the tweet : https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/311621579383664640

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5. This will be appealed. Please support Ed Fallone for State Supreme Court April 2nd!!!!!!!!!!

We need Ed on the Court or we will lose there.

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6. ruling likely sets the stage for Van Hollen to take the case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

A Wisconsin Court of Appeals today refused to put on hold a judge's decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10, which effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen had asked the 4th District Court of Appeals to place the September ruling of Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas on hold while Van Hollen appeals the decision.

The Appeals Court today upheld that decision, leaving the status of Act 10 in limbo. The Appeals Court said it saw "no basis to set aside the circuit court's decision that a stay was not warranted."

Today’s ruling likely sets the stage for Van Hollen to take the case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The conservative wing of the Supreme Court has a 5-to-4 majority.
The actual ruling is here, via WisPolitics.com.
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/

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7. already-divided court made worse with a rush to pass Act 10 that insured in Prosser chocking Bradley

The nonpartisan Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed an ethics complaint against Justice Prosser over the incident, but because the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the only governing body that can make a final ruling on this issue, the matter is stalled as the Court cannot reach a quorum. Prosser asked every member of the court to recuse themselves from the case; Roggensack was the first to do so, followed by two other justices, dampening any hopes of a resolution.

Further division within the court is evidenced by a February 13, 2013 memo from Justice Bradley where she expresses continued concerns over her safety. The memo, where she too recuses herself from deliberations over the choking incident, discusses the court's dysfunction, and singles out Justice Roggensack for denying it.

Roggensack had made a series of public statements where she discounted the court's internal conflicts by calling it "just a bunch of gossip" and that the court was "doing just fine." Bradley's memo refutes these statements by detailing how she and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson had been forced to lock their doors and request additional security from the Capitol Police even before the choking incident, due to concerns over what she describes as Justice Prosser's "history of abusive behavior."

Roggensack, for her part, has urged her colleagues to join her in signing a joint apology letter to the citizens of Wisconsin regarding the incident between Prosser and Bradley, which purports to be an alternative to the ethics case finding a resolution. Her opponent Fallone has criticized the letter, as well as her decision to recuse herself from the case, stating "t is obvious that her unnecessary recusal in the case continues to be an obstacle to the resolution of the matter."

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/03/12015/another-wi-supreme-court-election-battle-dominated-outside-spending