21:54 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a law stripping most public employees’ collective bargaining rights.<\/p>\n
In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled a lower court judge had improperly interfered in the legislative process when she overturned the law.<\/p>\n
In May, Judge Maryann Sumi ruled that Republicans violated open meetings laws in their haste to pass the bill.<\/p>\n
Republicans said the bill was needed to cut public spending. Democrats said it was an attack on pro-Democratic unions.<\/p>\n
‘Affront to democracy’<\/span><\/p>\nIn a statement, Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, who strongly backed the bill, said: “The Supreme Court’s ruling provides our state the opportunity to move forward together and focus on getting Wisconsin working again.”<\/p>\n
But Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, a major union, called the Supreme Court’s decision “an affront to our democracy.”<\/p>\n
The law, which also requires state government employees to pay more for their healthcare and pensions, was proposed in the winter by the newly elected Mr Walker.#<\/p>\n
He said it would give local governments more flexibility to close budget gaps.<\/p>\n
The bill ignited weeks of furious protests by tens of thousands of government workers and their supporters.<\/p>\n
They said the bill was an attack on their livelihoods and on the unions, which tend to back Democrats in elections.<\/p>\n
‘Open meetings violation’<\/span><\/p>\nWhen the time came for a vote on the bill, state Senate Democrats fled in order to deny the Republican-controlled body a quorum in the chamber.<\/p>\n
However, in March Republicans were able to circumvent that effort using a procedural move.<\/p>\n
After Mr Walker signed the bill into law, though, Dane County’s district attorney alleged that Republicans met to pass the bill without the 24-hour notice required by Wisconsin’s open meetings law.<\/p>\n
Judge Sumi of Dane County agreed.<\/p>\n
However, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned her ruling and upheld the law, finding Judge Sumi “usurped” the state’s legislative body.<\/p>\n
The court also rejected arguments Republicans had violated open meetings law.<\/p>\n
“The doors of the Senate and Assembly were kept open to the press and members of the public,” the Supreme Court said. “Access was not denied.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, voters have launched efforts to recall several of Wisconsin’s state senators in retaliation for their votes – both in favour of the bill and against it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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