Wis. judge rejects request to reinstate union law
MADISON — A judge has rejected the state of Wisconsin's request to put on hold his earlier ruling striking down large portions of Republican Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law.
Dane County District Judge Juan Colas on Monday released his ruling rejecting the request for a stay.
Colas in September ruled the law stripping most public workers of nearly all their union rights violates teachers and local government workers' free speech, free association and equal protection rights.
Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen had asked for a stay while he appeals. Van Hollen's spokeswoman Dana Brueck says he will now ask the court of appeals to issue a stay.
Lester Pines, an attorney for those challenging the law, says the judge reached a correct decision in rejecting the stay.
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Oct 23, 2012 at 12:10 p.m.
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Sad day for Wisconsin as Judge Colas' ruling is a joke. First, they're not 'rights,' as the rest of the public did not have them. Second, free assocation and free speech remain available to public union members as we witnessed when they marched on and trashed the capital. Finally, it was the public and tax payers at-large who remained equally unprotected as big public labor held them hostage year after year for contract terms well in excess of what was sustainable, affordable or reasonable as compared to their private sector counterparts.
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