Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill or the Wisconsin Budget Adjustment Act, [1] [2] is a controversial law enacted by the 100th Wisconsin Legislature which significantly limited the rights and compensation of state and local government employees in Wisconsin.
Act 10 took effect in June 2011. Consequently, Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and 13 state senators faced recalls over Act 10 — 10 Republicans and three Democrats. Most incumbents won, but ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Act 10, which restricted public employees’ collective bargaining rights, is unconstitutional under the state’s equal protection clause according to a ...
Despite Act 10 being upheld repeatedly by state and federal courts, an activist Dane County judge decided to issue a ruling suddenly deciding Wisconsin's law is unconstitutional," LeMahieu said in ...
The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving as many as 100,000 protesters [3] opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill."
The session also saw passage of 2011 Wisconsin Act 43, the dramatic gerrymander which successfully locked in Republican control of the legislature for the next decade. Following the outrage over Act 10, recall elections were held in 2011 and 2012 in which 13 state senators were challenged. Three were eventually removed from office and replaced ...
But a decade after Wisconsin’s anti-worker Act 10 was implemented, that spread grew from $73,330 in the Badger State to a whopping $93,390 in Minnesota. A median inflation adjusted household ...
The 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 led to large protests around the state capitol building in Madison. [11] At the statewide level, Wisconsin is competitive, with control regularly alternating between the two parties. In 2006, Democrats gained in a national sweep of opposition to the Bush administration, and the Iraq War.