He’s only in single digits in current polls, but I suspect Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker hit a responsive chord with business interests this week when he advised that “the NLRB is broken beyond repair.” In releasing “Power to the People – not the Union Bosses – Plan”, Governor Walker who is running for the Republican…
Read More »With organized labor racking up a number of wins across the country from NLRB rulings, minimum wage increases, and the like, it is refreshing to see what Wisconsin Governor (and as-yet-unannounced GOP Presidential candidate) Scott Walker is now pursuing along with the Wisconsin legislature – repeal of the state prevailing wage law. This week, the…
Read More »Just days after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed his state up as the 25th in the nation with a Right-To-Work law on the books, lame-duck President Barack Obama attacked the likely candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination in a statement released Monday by the White House. In part, Obama professed his deep disappointment that…
Read More »It was not the least bit surprising when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this week signed into law Right to Work legislation making Wisconsin the 25th state to enact right-to-work laws. The law makes it illegal to require the payment of union dues as a requirement of employment. Walker, a likely GOP presidential candidate for the…
Read More »Just days after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the new Wisconsin new Right to Work legislation into law, organized labor expressed their strong disapproval by filing suit challenging the new law as an unconstitutional transfer of property in that unions would still be required under federal law to provide services to employees who choose not…
Read More »The proposed Right to Work bill that was passed last week by the state senate, was on yesterday’s agenda for the Wisconsin Assembly. The branch is overwhelmingly republican controlled, so it is expected to pass and be sent to Governor Scott Walker, who has advised that he will sign it into law. Walker came out…
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