Wisconsin GOP: Anti-worker in 2011, anti-worker 14 years later

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Headline:  Isthmus, 12/9/2024

The five-justice July 2014 majority opinion was written by then-Justice Michael Gableman, who did not seek re-election in 2018 and who was recently the subject of an Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) referral for misconduct that could lead to loss of his law license. The OLR referral cited Gableman misrepresentations in how he handled a state Assembly probe of Wisconsin’s 2020 election for president. 

Joining Gableman’s 2014 opinion upholding Act 10 were Ziegler, now retired Justice Pat Roggensack, and Justices David Prosser and Patrick Crooks. Prosser died on Dec. 1, Crooks in 2015. 

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The Gableman-led majority in 2014 focused on this issue: Public employees have no right to collectively bargain. 

“[Unions] seek the right to organize with others to pursue something more specific: collective bargaining with their employers on a range of issues,” Gableman wrote. “This is not a constitutional right.”

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