MADISON, WI (WTAQ-METRO) – There won’t be a shortage of people defending Wisconsin’s Act 10.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Friday promised to defend the law both in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
A number of public sector unions want to roll back the law from 2011 that limited what public sector workers, particularly teachers, could negotiate for in their contracts.
They feel with a liberal majority make up of the state’s Supreme Court now is the time to mount that challenge.
WILL says the end of Act 10 would be devastating to local schools and local governments. WILL’s Rick Esenberg says Act 10 has saved over 16 billion-dollars over the past decade.
Former Governor Scott Walker may get involved with the latest challenge to Act 10. Walker was a guest Sunday on Capital City Sunday, and said he’s worried about the new challenge to the law he signed back in 2011. Walker says Act 10 has saved local schools billions of dollars over the past decade, and said it has put local voters back in charge of their schools.
Walker says if Act 10 goes away, union bosses and not the voters, will run schools in Wisconsin once again.
