The wages of Walker’s win: According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, public employee unions in Wisconsin may just choose to decertify instead of facing the yearly recertification votes required by Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill. The Journal-Sentinel reports: “Under Walker’s legislation, public employers could no longer collect membership dues on behalf of unions and workers would no longer have to pay dues to unions if they decline to do so. All that leaves little incentive for unions to keep their official status.” Instead, government unions may reorganize as voluntary organizations that would advocate on other issues important to members.
And The Examiner reported Friday, that Wisconsin prison and health workers continue to rake in big overtime bucks. More than 160 of them earned $25,000 or more in just overtime pay in 2010 alone.
