Erik Gunn at The Wisconsin Examiner reports on Organized Labor’s future after core parts of an Anti-Union Wisconsin Law were struck down by a Dane County Judge.  Parts of the landmark State Law had eviscerated most Union Rights for most Public Employees in Wisconsin.  The Judge Jacob Frost ruled Act 10, passed by the State Legislature’s Republican Majority in 2011 and signed by former Republican Governor Scott Walker, was unconstitutional in making some Public Safety Workers exempt from the Law’s limits on Unions - but excluding other Workers with similar jobs from those protections.  Ben Gruber, a Conservation Warden and Union Leader who is one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, called the ruling “personal for me and my Co-Workers.”  “As a Conservation Warden, having full Collective Bargaining Rights means we will again have a voice on the job to improve our workplace and make sure that Wisconsin is a safe place for everyone,” he said in a statement distributed by the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC).  WEAC stated: “The lawsuit was filed because of the dire situation that exists in Wisconsin’s Public Service Institutions since Workers’ freedoms were unconstitutionally taken away.” “The State’s Education Workforce is in crisis as (40%) of Teachers leave the profession in the first six years because of low wages and unequal pay systems.  The Conservation Warden Program is fraught with unfair and disparate treatment of Workers and there is a (32%) Staff vacancy rate for Corrections Officers.”

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