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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Walker Attack On Workers Shot Down
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The poor dim-witted corporate tool Scott Walker and his War on Workers is have a very bad week.
Last Friday, a judge ruled that Walker's Right to Exploit Workers was struck down by a Dane County judge. The corporate controlled Attorney General, Brad Schimel, asked that the judge order a stay while he appealed this ruling. This past Friday, the judge denied the motion and issued a final order calling this malevolent law what it was - unconstitutional - with some strong, straight to the point language:Foust also emphasized that he believes barring the state from enforcing the law is the right decision, noting that the law creates a misdemeanor crime for anyone who violates it.
The right of the union to be paid for work it performs is not trivial, Foust wrote. Act 1 makes it a crime for the union to require someone to pay for the services he or she receives from the union. Enjoining the attorney general and the state from pursuing criminal prosecutions is appropriate relief.
In another blow to Walker's attack on Wisconsinites, Walker's scheme to make it harder for people to get unemployment compensation took a major hit.
Walker and the other corporate controlled tools known as Republicans had passed a law in 2013 saying that a person could be denied unemployment if they had been fired for "substantial fault." This means that if the person had made even just one mistake, had one minor infraction or wasn't able to do the job, they could be denied unemployment.
This law failed to stand up to scrutiny in the
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Another Walker Attack On Workers Shot Down (Original Post)
Stellar
Apr 2016
OP
Unfortunately, this victory will be short-lived. The State Supreme Court has been ...
Scuba
Apr 2016
#4
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)1. Why did I think "Zombies"...
...when I read this title?
Hmmmm...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. Heh. This is what I thought.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)3. Ohhh, that works too...
...now I have to ponder which more closely makes the point?
Unless... we conflate...
Zombie Walkers... or ... Walker Walkers..
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Unfortunately, this victory will be short-lived. The State Supreme Court has been ...
... bought-and-paid-for by the same special interests that stand to benefit from a reversal.
It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to overstate the level of corruption in our State government, including our Supreme Court.
AllyCat
(16,266 posts)5. Our awful State Supreme Court. Corporate-controlled doesn't half explain what it does
We are stuck with Walker for as long as he wants to be here thanks to those tools.