Sentences with phrase «most public workers»

That process was changed under the law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers and required them to pay more for their health insurance and pension benefits.

The groups are filing a federal lawsuit against the governor's plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep - deprived Democrats realized what was happening.

The groups are filing a federal lawsuit against the governor's plan to strip most public workers of...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal also would allow most public workers to collectively bargain only for wages.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin Democrats who fled the state nearly three weeks ago asked Monday for a meeting with Gov. Scott Walker to talk about changes to his plan to eliminate most public workers» union rights, a request the governor dismissed as «ridiculous.»

Burkhalter said membership was about 90,000 before Walker's strict limits on collective bargaining for most public workers kicked in.

The new state law, held up pending a legal challenge, forbids most public worker unions from negotiating salary schedules, benefits and workplace rules with employers.

Gov. Scott Walker's move to curb collective bargaining for most public workers gives school districts unprecedented authority to run schools as they see fit, without consulting teachers unions.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker is trying to cast his likely re-election effort next year as a fight over the Act 10 law passed in 2011 that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep - deprived...

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights and cut their pay.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

Under Walker's plan, most public workers - excluding police, firefighters and state troopers - would have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health - care costs.

The governor's top aide, Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, later issued a statement saying Walker would comply with Sumi's order and halt preparations that were under way to begin deducting money from most public workers» paychecks, but that the governor's administration still believes the law took effect after a state office unexpectedly published online.

The law applies to most public workers, including school teachers, but does exempt most police and firefighters, local transit workers and emergency medical service employees.

If unions and their Democratic allies prevail in the recall — just over a year after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers — it would send a powerful warning to other politicians who might try to limit union rights.

Before that he was part of a team that defended Walker's Act 10 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

Gov. Scott Walker is trying to cast his likely re-election effort next year as a fight over the Act 10 law passed in 2011 that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

Under Walker's plan, most public workers - excluding police, firefighters and state troopers - would have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health - care costs.

Thousands of protesters, including many Madison teachers, rally at the Capitol in Madison on Feb. 16 against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed limits on collective bargaining for most public workers.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Walker argued that the Madison School Board could have put more money toward raising graduation rates and academic achievement if it had taken advantage of his controversial 2011 measure known as Act 10, which effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers, instead of choosing to negotiate a contract with its teachers union for the 2015 - 16 school year earlier this summer.