{"id":1298,"date":"2011-02-16T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2016-11-17T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:21:32","slug":"national-guard-prepped-to-maintain-labor-discipline-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/national-guard-prepped-to-maintain-labor-discipline-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard prepped to maintain labor discipline in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently elected governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, acknowledged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/article\/20110211\/GPG0101\/110211052\/Public-workers-in-Wisconsin-reeling-from-anti-union-bill\">preparing the Wisconsin National Guard<\/a> to respond to the possibility of disorder among state employees. The <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/wi\/article_068eaf54-3604-11e0-b4dd-001cc4c002e0.html\">announcement<\/a> came one day after Wisconsin Democrats accused the Republican governor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/115726754.html\">\u201cdeclaring war\u201d<\/a> on public employees\u2019 unions by attempting to sharply limit their collective bargaining rights.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Walker has called for a set of austerity measures ostensibly designed to shore up the state\u2019s finances by cutting public workers\u2019 benefits, by capping annual pay increases, and by eliminating their legal right to bargain over anything except wages. Walker\u2019s plan has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/116094324.html\">submitted to the state legislature<\/a>, which may act on it this coming week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2011\/02\/11\/wisconsin%E2%80%99s-walker-calls-for-end-of-collective-bargaining-alerts-national-guard\/\">According to the AFL-CIO<\/a>, the National Guard hasn\u2019t been deployed in a public employee labor dispute since the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis and hasn\u2019t been used against labor in Wisconsin since 1934.<\/p>\n<p>The drama in Wisconsin is merely one front of a national campaign against public sector unionism being waged in state houses across the nation, including ongoing political battles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatchpolitics.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2011\/02\/11\/copy\/kasich-you-strike-you-get-punished.html?adsec=politics&amp;sid=101\">Ohio<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/10\/nyregion\/10unions.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently elected governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, acknowledged preparing the Wisconsin National Guard to respond to the possibility of disorder 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