{"id":320888,"date":"2011-03-18T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:36:04","slug":"judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"95.5106019985\">\n<div readability=\"6.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\"><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pushed for legislation curbing the collective bargaining rights of state employees in unions.<\/p>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>Wisconsin Senate Democrats contend that passage of bill violated open meetings law<\/li>\n<li>In response, the Dane County district attorney filed a lawsuit<\/li>\n<li>A Wisconsin judge issues a temporary restraining order against the new law<\/li>\n<li>Governor is confident initiative will prevail, spokeswoman says<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>CNN affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkow.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=14276368\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WKOW<\/a> has more on the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>(CNN)<\/b> &#8212; A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday halting the state&#8217;s controversial budget repair law that curbs the union power of most public employees, the Dane County district attorney&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Scott Walker, who championed the measure and signed it into law last week, said he was confident the initiative would eventually prevail in the court system, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This legislation is still working through the legal process. We are confident the provisions of the budget repair bill will become law in the near future,&#8221; Cullen Werwie, the governor&#8217;s press secretary, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Senate Democrats called the law, which reduces the collective bargaining rights of most state employees, an attack on workers and filed a complaint with the Dane County district attorney, claiming that the Senate&#8217;s Republican-led vote violated Wisconsin&#8217;s open meetings law.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi came in response to a lawsuit filed by District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, charging such a violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>In  the lawsuit, Ozanne alleges that the joint committee of conference,   which resolves differences in legislation passed by the Senate and   assembly, failed to give a 24-hour public notice of its March 9 meeting   despite the objection of state Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha.<\/p>\n<p>The judge&#8217;s order enjoins Wisconsin Secretary of State Douglas La Follette from publishing the new law &#8220;until further order of the court,&#8221; according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-Treasurer Stephanie Bloomingdale of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO praised the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Wisconsin, we have a democracy, and rules need to be followed. No one is above the law, including Scott Walker,&#8221; Bloomingdale said. &#8220;This is definitely a move in the right direction for working people in Wisconsin to uphold worker rights and also to uphold democracy in Wisconsin and America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the controversy over the governor&#8217;s budget repair bill, Democratic state senators fled the state in protest. They returned Saturday to cheering crowds and vowed to continue the fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People think that this is a picnic for us. They&#8217;re wrong. But I&#8217;ll tell you something, we did it for the right reasons,&#8221; state Sen. Dave Hansen said Saturday. &#8220;And the fight will continue. It does not end with that vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The senators returned to Wisconsin just one day after Walker signed the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans cleared the final hurdle to the controversial proposal last week, passing the bill after the state&#8217;s GOP-controlled Senate approved an amended version of the measure &#8212; despite the absence of the 14 Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a necessary quorum of 20 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The amended bill stripped the spending components out of the original proposal, enabling lawmakers to pass the measure with fewer votes.<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers say the law will help Wisconsin close a $137 million budget shortfall with a plan that requires public workers, with the exception of police and firefighters, to cover more of their retirement plan contributions and health care premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Raises will be tied to the rate of inflation, unless state voters approve an exception. The legislation also requires unions to hold a new certification vote every year, and unions will no longer be allowed to collect dues from workers&#8217; paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>Unions mobilized their supporters to oppose the bill, drawing tens of thousands of people to rallies opposing Walker and supporting the fugitive Democrats.<\/p>\n<p> CNN&#8217;s Matt Cherry contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/xVl0LQOYae0\/index.html\" title=\"Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill - CNN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Wisconsin Gov. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill - CNN - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill - CNN - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Wisconsin Gov.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/judge-halts-wisconsin-anti-union-bill-cnn\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Judge halts Wisconsin anti-union bill &#8211; 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