Breaking: Coalition of Wis Unions Challenge Walker's Union-Busting Bill on Constitutional Grounds

[kpete]

Source: Daily Kos

THU MAR 31, 2011 AT 06:40 PM EDT
Breaking: Coalition of Wis Unions Challenge Walker's Union-Busting Bill on Constitutional Grounds!

byJud Lounsburys.pdf

This afternoon Dane County Firefighters, AFSCME Local 60 (Dane county workers), and Madison Laborers amended the complaint http://www.thewheelerreport.com/releases/March11/0331/0331laborer of their earlier lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the passage of the collective bargaining bill, with a broader attack on the unconstitutional substance of the collective bargaining bill.

The first argument raised in the ammended complaint, is that the bill violates the Wisconsin constitution on equal protection grounds, because union government employees are treated significantly different than non-union employees under the bill:


*****These provisions treat those employees who are represented by public sector labor organizations in ways that are different in significant respects from the ways in which they treat employees who are not represented by any labor organization; and they treat some limited number of public sector employees who are represented by labor organizations in ways that are different from the ways in which they treat most employees who are represented by public sector labor organizations, thereby creating unnecessary conflict among employees and divisions within and among public sector labor organizations.



Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/31/962089/-Breaking:-Coalition-of-Wis-Unions-Challenge-Walkers-Union-Busting-Bill-on-Constitutional-Grounds!

[Kingofalldems]

1. K and R all Pro Union/Democratic Party threads

[HereSince1628]

2. Interesting, thats better than a similar point I made about 10 hours ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=780275&mesg_id=780415

[freshwest]

3. Great. Shows the discrimination against those who try to define their working conditions.

This is part of punishing people to shut them up. It tells them their labor, thus their time, bodies and minds are not their own property to protect.

[Tx4obama]

4. K & R n/t

[Lifelong Protester]

5. Keep the lawsuits coming

Walker and his fiends have pushed through a LOT of illegal stuff. That's his style, do it, and MAYBE it will pass or maybe it will get him in trouble. Walker did this a LOT in his old Milwaukee county job.

[Lugnut]

6. K&R n/t