Budget Repair Bill Gives Unions Disincentive to Make Concessions

by | June 1, 2011

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The Wisconsin Budget Project has a new blog post describing how the budget adjustment bill provides a disincentive — at least in the short term — for public employee unions willing to make concessions.

Here’s an excerpt:

“A number of local public employee unions have indicated their willingness to re-open their contracts to make concessions that would prevent staff layoffs and service reductions. If so, they better do it quickly, because once Act 10 provisions go into effect, unions that voluntarily work with local governments to reopen their contracts and make concessions will be subject to all the provisions in Act 10.

That means that if unions make a good-faith effort to make financial concessions through a modification of their contract, the result will be that they will be immediately limited in their rights regarding arbitration, union dues, fringe benefits, and other areas.”

You can read the entire post here, at the Wisconsin Budget Project blog.

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