Coalition of Dane Cty [Madison]Unions File Suit Claiming Collective Bargaining Bill Unconstitutional

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Coalition of Dane County Unions File Suit Claiming Collective Bargaining Bill Unconstitutional
Thu, 03/31/2011 - 5:28pm | Jud Lounsbury


This afternoon Dane County Firefighters, AFSCME Local 60 (Dane county workers), and Madison Laborers amended the complaint 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 complaing, 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.

The second argument is that the bill violates the Wisconsin Article 1 Sec 3: Free Speech, Article 1 Sec 4: Right to Assemble and Petition:........................

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