Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice goes aside in the case of Union rights
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Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice goes aside in the case of Union rights

Madison, Wis. (AP) – A conservative justice in Wisconsin Supreme Court said Thursday that he will not participate in a waiting case that will determine whether tens of thousands of public workers will recover collective negotiating rights that were removed by a 2011 law.

Justice Brian Hagedorn prepared the law, known as team 10, when he was head of bad lawyer for the then Gov. Scott Walker. His decision to revoke from the case leaves the court with four liberal justice and two conservatives.

The Republican controlled legislature Earlier this week Asked that liberal justice Janet Protasiewicz would not hear the case because she entered Capitol in protest in 2011.

The Hagedorn, in a short two -sided order, said that the law commands that he does not hear the case. Democratic legislators on Tuesday had urged him to go aside.

“The issues raised involve issues that I provided legal advisers in both the first craft and later defense of team 10, including in a case that raised almost identical claims according to the federal constitution,” wrote Hagedorn.

Protasiewicz has not responded to the conversation she goes aside. Even if she did, the court would still have a 3-2 liberal majority.

She did not participate in an incremental decisive Thursday related to the case.

A Dane County Circuit Judge last month overturned the main part of the law and says it violates equal protection guarantees in the Wisconsin constitution by sharing public employees in “general” and “general security” employees. According to the decision, all public workers who lost their collective negotiating power would have it restored to what was in place before 2011.

The judge made the decision to keep waiting for the appeal. School workers trade unions that aroused the atmosphere have asked the Supreme Court to take it directly and skip the appealed court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to take the case.

Now the Hagedorn will not participate in the decision or others related to the mood.

Supporters of the law have said that it gave local authorities more control over the workers and the powers they needed to lower costs. To cancel the law, which enabled schools and local authorities to raise money through higher employees’ grants for benefits, would bankrupt these units, support for Act 10 has claimed.

Democratic opponents claim that the law has damaged schools and other authorities by removing employees’ ability to collectively negotiate for their salary and working conditions.

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