{"id":799,"date":"2011-06-29T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:35:19","slug":"news-release-teacher-files-brief-in-wisconsin-government-unionism-reform-battle-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-teacher-files-brief-in-wisconsin-government-unionism-reform-battle-in-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/06\/wisconsin-teacher-amicus-walker-reforms-06292011\" title=Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court\">Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Public-sector union bosses file desperate lawsuit seeking to protect forced dues stranglehold over Wisconsin\u2019s public workers and taxpayers<\/h3>\n<p><b>Madison, WI (June 29, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law &#038; Liberty, a Kenosha teacher affected by Wisconsin\u2019s recent public-sector unionism reforms has filed an <i>amicus curiae<\/i> brief in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Kristi Lacroix, who has been a teacher for 13 years and is an English teacher at the LakeView Technology Academy in Pleasant Prairie, filed the brief Monday in favor of the reforms which sharply limited government union officials\u2019 monopoly bargaining power over public workers and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Governor Scott Walker\u2019s government-sector monopoly bargaining reform bill, which protects the Right to Work for most government employees and bans automatic forced-union-dues seizures from public employees\u2019 paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>In response, union lawyers filed a new lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn the bill, claiming that Freedom of Association \u2013 the right of American citizens to voluntarily come together to express their opinions and petition the government \u2013 gives union bosses forced-dues and monopoly bargaining powers.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation staff attorneys have won at the United States Supreme Court numerous times on this very issue, winning precedents that support the constitutionality of Wisconsin\u2019s government-sector monopoly bargaining reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/06\/wisconsin-teacher-amicus-walker-reforms-06292011\">Read the entire release here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/06\/wisconsin-teacher-amicus-walker-reforms-06292011\" title=Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court\">Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Public-sector union bosses file desperate lawsuit seeking to protect forced dues stranglehold over Wisconsin\u2019s public workers and taxpayers<\/h3>\n<p><b>Madison, WI (June 29, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law &#038; Liberty, a Kenosha teacher affected by Wisconsin\u2019s recent public-sector unionism reforms has filed an <i>amicus curiae<\/i> brief in federal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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