WisPolitics.com: WisPolitics: Walker criticizes proposed special session on state employee contracts

State Employee contracts are already 1.5 years overdue. Gov.-elect Walker says its just plain wrong to settle these overdue employer/employee contracts before January 3rd, 2011.

Based on the communicated word of Gov.-elect Walker, both in verbal and written form, it is very reasonable to assume that if these already overdue contracts are not settled under the Doyle Administration, who by the way has that obligation to get them settled, then state employees could conceivably not see any settled negotiations with the Walker Administration over the next four-years thus having state employees work with a contract that could be up to or even more than six-years expired.

Gov.-elect Walker you have already been found in a recent ruling by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission of not bargaining in good faith at the County level, that ruling was for agreeing to one thing and then deliberately doing something else, but now you wish to find ways to fail to negotiate with employees that you will have working for you who have protections under the law for the employer to collectively bargain with the employees and you wish to ignore that requirement?

One has to wonder with what poor positions you are already taking with regards to creating jobs, keeping good manufacturer's in Wisconsin and sending back hundreds of millions of dollars to the Feds as merely the Gov.-elect, what misleading endeavors will you manufacture when you hold the constitutional title of Governor?

WisPolitics.com: WisPolitics: Walker criticizes proposed special session on state employee contracts

Posted by Steven Williams
PEL Coordinator
AFSCME Council 24