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Dismantling the Union Monopoly: Wisconsin teachers union to lay off 40% of staff
Posted by Robbie Cooper at 9:22 am Add comments

Aug 162011
Form the Elections Have Consequences department, we see one of the huge wins for Conservatives in Wisconsin unfolding this week. Since Wisconsin unions are no longer allowed to garnish the wages of their members and forceably take dues from their pay checks — instead, having to rely on those teachers to voluntarily pay union dues (feign surprise: most won’t), the union bosses and lackeys are having to lay off their bloated pay rolls.

Tiny violins and all that.

Via Red State:

For years, the Wisconsin Education Association Council maintained a virtual monopoly on Wisconsin’s education system, raking in $25 million in union dues from teachers in 2009. Moreover, it also controls an insurance trust called the WEA Trust, which gave the union the ability to “sell” (though negotiations) school districts health insurance for teachers–often at a premium price.

According to WHBL in Sheboygan, WEAC’s monopoly has suddenly shrunk, thanks to Scott Walker’s government-union reform law.

And from that WHBL article:

Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union plans to lay off 40% of its staff members.

Director Dan Burkhalter of the Wisconsin Education Association Council said Monday that 42 people who work for the union had received layoff notices. And he blamed it on what he called Governor Scott Walker’s “union-busting” legislation.

The law allows teachers in districts without ongoing contracts to bargain only for salaries at-or-below inflation. Employees no longer have to pay union dues, and most public unions must hold certification votes each year to stay in existence.

Burkhalter says WEAC is busy signing up members to stay with the group and voluntarily pay dues. He said the teachers’ union has made quote, “steady progress in signing up members” – and they expect even more progress once the school year begins in a couple weeks.
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