{"id":21187,"date":"2014-07-31T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21187"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:59:39","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-vindicates-scott-walker%e2%80%99s-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21187\/wisconsin-supreme-court-vindicates-scott-walker%e2%80%99s-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Vindicates Scott Walker\u2019s Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker\u2019s campaign for reelection just got a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today the state\u2019s seven member Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that Act 10 \u2013 the controversial union-busting law championed by Walker and the GOP-led legislature \u2013 is constitutional, reports NPR.<\/p>\n<p>In upholding the law\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/07\/31\/336822839\/wisconsin-supreme-court-upholds-states-controversial-labor-law \" target=\"_blank\">curtailment of certain state employees\u2019 collective bargaining rights<\/a> \u2013 in particular teachers\u2019 unions \u2013 the majority reasoned that, \u201cNo matter the limitations or \u2018burdens\u2019 a legislative enactment places on the collective bargaining process, collective bargaining remains a creation of legislative grace and not a constitutional obligation. The First Amendment [right of association] cannot be used as a vehicle to expand the parameters of a benefit that it does not itself protect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision vindicates Governor Walker\u2019s goal to free Wisconsin taxpayers from being held hostage by public employee unions who demand ever increasing compensation, and threaten to strike if unsatisfied. Throughout the country, public employee unions have abused the privilege of collective bargaining to bring many states to the brink of insolvency. Armed with this decision, Walker can consolidate his policy victories and begin to tout Wisconsin as a model for other states to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker\u2019s campaign for reelection just got a whole lot easier. Earlier today the state\u2019s seven member Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that Act 10 \u2013 the controversial union-busting law championed by Walker and the GOP-led legislature \u2013 is constitutional, reports NPR. In upholding the law\u2019s curtailment of certain state employees\u2019 collective bargaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2419,1186,2412,1051,1500],"class_list":["post-21187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-labor","tag-scott-walker","tag-union","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21192,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions\/21192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}