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U.S. Constitution Title: Court strikes down Wisconsin right-to-work law Attorney General Brad Schimel, also a Republican, promised to appeal the decision and said he was confident it would not stand, noting that no similar law has been struck down in any other state. Schimel has not decided whether to seek an immediate suspension of the ruling while the appeal is pending, spokesman Johnny Koremenos said. "We are confident Wisconsin's freedom-to-work law is constitutional and will ultimately be upheld," Walker wrote on Twitter. Three unions filed the lawsuit last year shortly after Walker signed the bill into law. Right-to-work laws prohibit businesses and unions from reaching agreements that require all workers, not just union members, to pay union dues. Twenty-five other states have such laws. The unions argued that Wisconsin's law was an unconstitutional seizure of union property since unions now must extend benefits to workers who don't pay dues. Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust agreed. He said the law amounts to the government taking union funds without compensation since under the law unions must represent people who don't pay dues. That presents an existential threat to unions, Foust wrote. "While (union) losses today could be characterized by some as minor, they are not isolated and the impact of (the law) over time is threatening to the unions' very economic viability," he wrote. Foust noted that no other state court had struck down a right-to-work law on those grounds, but said he wasn't obligated to follow other states. Republicans who backed the law dismissed the ruling, saying it will be reversed. "Once again, a liberal Dane County judge is trying to legislate from the bench," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said in a statement. "No one should be forced to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment." The law's Democratic supporters hailed the decision as a victory for the middle class and working families. "The extreme right-wing Republican agenda has been incredibly harmful to working people and businesses inWisconsin," said Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca. Three unions — Machinists Local Lodge 1061 in Milwaukee, the Wisconsin AFL-CIO chapter and United Steelworkers District 2 in Menasha — brought the lawsuit. Erin Mediros, an attorney representing all three unions, didn't immediately respond to a voicemail Friday. Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, said the ruling was a "needed check on Scott Walker's attacks on working families." "Right to work has always been unjust, now it's proven unconstitutional," he said. Supporters of right-to-work laws say they give workers the freedom to choose whether to join a union. Opponents say the laws weaken unions by depriving them of the dues from workers who choose not to pay them, resulting in lower wages and fewer employee rights. They also say the Republican-backed law is intended to undermine unions' political power because unions tend to vote Democrat. In 2014 the Indiana Supreme Court rejected two nearly identical challenges to that state's right-to-work law. Those lawsuits alleged that the law unconstitutionally required unions to provide services to nonunion workers without compensation. The Wisconsin attorney general argued the law doesn't take anything from the unions since it technically doesn't remove any money currently in their accounts. Walker launched his run for president just months after signing the law, and frequently mentioned it while campaigning. Months after taking office in 2011, Walker also signed a law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public sector workers. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 15. WTF happened to paragraph breaks here? Why do we have to spend 10 minutes scrolling down a blank page to get to the text and photos?
#9. To: sneakypete (#7) Hmm...you only get that kind of blank page if you're on a very small screen. If your page width is less than 1040 pixels, you will get that long blank space that you have to scroll down for. The cause is the article sidebar being rendered before the article is. My articles are all posted within a table 720 pixels wide. This overcomes some of the problems the forum has with certain fonts and other features. It also keeps articles from getting so wide that they become hard to read on larger monitors. I do wish Neil would fix it and I do know where his code and template need to be altered. This stuff was set up back in 2002 and the web and browsers and monitors have all changed a bit since 2002. In fact, this site is officially broken due to its use of SPAN tags instead of DIVs. Back in 2002, no one cared much and they were mostly interchangeable but in 2016, all the main browsers rigorously enforce those layout tags. What browser are you using? What is your screen resolution? Maybe I need to adjust my table. Do you get this on every thread, just on threads that I post, or just on this one thread alone?
#11. To: TooConservative (#9) What browser are you using? What is your screen resolution? I am using the most current version of Mozilla,and have no idea what my screen resolution is other than "HD",which probably means nothing. I do know it is the same as it has always been,and I didn't always have this trouble. Seems like it has only been a problem the last week or so. Maybe I need to adjust my table. If you are asking me this,you are backing up. I don't even know what a table is in the sense you are talking about. Do you get this on every thread, just on threads that I post, or just on this one thread alone? Seems like every thread I open,regardless of who created it.
#15. To: sneakypete (#11) Did you check your Zoom setting as I suggested?
Replies to Comment # 15. #16. To: tooconservative (#15) Not yet,but I plan to as soon as I get caught up on other stuff to the point where my mind is clear to think. I'm mostly posting during commercials while watching the Walking Dead right now.
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