Wisconsin's local governments never asked to end collective bargaining, as Scott Walker contends

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Wisconsin's local governments never asked to end collective bargaining, as Scott Walker contends
Joe Tarr on Monday 02/21/2011 3:26 pm


Gov. Scott Walker has said he wants to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees in part to give local governments and school boards the authority to make unilateral adjustments to pensions and other benefits.

As he said at his press conference last Friday, "To protect our schools, to protect our local governments, we need to give them the tools they've been asking for, not just for years but for decades."

But local governments and school officials have asked for no such thing.

"Our position is we've sought significant modifications in bargaining laws, but we've never sought to eliminate collective bargaining rights," says Miles Turner, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators.

In fact, the association, which represents almost all of the state's 424 school districts, doesn't want to do away with collective bargaining.

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