With the recent publication of
additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new
questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining
legislation. Some of those provisions may be adopted by ALEC for
introduction in other states.
According to documents posted
by good government organization Common Cause, the Koch-funded,
Michigan-based think tank Mackinac Center for Public Policy will ask ALEC at its Spring Task Force Summit
on May 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina to adopt as a "model bill" a
proposal that strongly resembles sections of Governor Walker's Act 10.
Those provisions, requiring that public employee unions recertify with a
majority of eligible employees (rather than just a majority of those
voting) and do so regularly, were considered some of the most onerous
burdens on unions imposed by Act 10, and their source a subject of
significant speculation.
The Act 10 provisions that the Mackinac Center will bring to ALEC were recently struck down
by a federal court in Wisconsin. That court also rejected the law's
prohibition on voluntary union dues deductions, which resembled
already-existing ALEC model legislation. READ MORE
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