United States District Court Strikes Down Parts of Wisconsin Antiunion Statute
March 2012
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin recently ruled on a challenge brought by a coalition of seven unions, for which Bredhoff & Kaiser served as lead counsel. The court struck down on equal protection and First Amendment grounds two important provisions of Wisconsin Act 10, the widely publicized antiunion statute sponsored by Governor Scott Walker in 2011, a requirement for annual recertification by an absolute majority of union members and a prohibition on the voluntary withholding of union dues from a general employee’s paycheck.