Walker budget-repair bill unconstitutional, Milwaukee city attorney says

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http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/117152008.html
Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill provisions requiring workers to pay 5.8% of their salary toward pension costs is unconstitutional, according to Milwaukee City Attorney Grant Langley.

Langley states in a 15-page opinion released Monday that the bill doesn't pass constitutional muster for three reasons.

It interferes with the city's home-rule authority over its pension plan; it violates employees' contractual rights; and the bill would violate workers' due process rights because it would violate terms of the city's global pension settlement with city workers from a decade ago.

Langley writes that because of a large body of case law striking down pay cuts that violate union contracts, "it is highly unlikely that the courts would uphold proposed (budget-repair law) on this ground."

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1. So, in other words, Walker wants to TAX public service workers an additional 5.8%?

Classic overreach.

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2. Unbelievable.

And a triple whammy:

effective pay cut
effectively a tax
and any pension they pay into the Republicans will steal decades before workers can claim it, as we are now seeing all over the country with current pensions.

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4. KICK because this is FUCKING important!!

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