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- 04-07-2011
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By Sean Cavanagh/Education Week
Elected officials in Ohio and Wisconsin were successful in muscling into law new measures to restrict collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public workers, but those controversial plans now face serious legal and political challenges. In Ohio, teachers’ unions have joined other labor organizations and political advocates in an effort to collect enough signatures to force a referendum aimed at overturning the state’s bargaining law, signed into law last week. And in Wisconsin, the state’s collective bargaining law is being challenged in court on the basis that state legislators violated open meetings laws by approving it through an unusual procedural maneuver. That case is pending in a state circuit court. (more...)
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