Legal Opinion
International Ass'n of Machinists District 10 v. State
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided September 19, 2017No. 2016AP820PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
¶ 1.
SEIDL, J.
The issue in this appeal involves whether Wisconsin's "right-to-work law," 2015 Wisconsin Act 1 (Act 1), effectuates an unconstitutional taking of the property of labor organizations1 in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution. We conclude the parties challenging Act 1 have not met their burden of proving the law is unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.
¶ 2. Employees are permitted to unionize and elect exclusive representation. A benefit to unions of *249exclusive representation is that employers are com pelled to bargain with that exclusive representative. But the benefits of…
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