High court blocks union arguments....
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court late Friday night blocked a group of unions from participating in oral arguments Monday that could determine the fate of Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial anti-collective bargaining law.
In a 4-3 vote, the conservative-dominated court ruled that a group of unions that had convinced a Dane County Circuit Court judge to block statewide implementation of Act 10 has no standing to argue as the case goes to the high court Monday.
The majority found that the group of unions tried to intervene in the case too late. The plaintiffs in the case, Madison Teachers Inc. and the Milwaukee municipal union, Public Employees Local 61, AFL-CIO, will participate in the high-stakes arguments Monday. But the court ruled that the other unions’ request to make arguments before the court was “untimely.”
“Intervention at this late stage will cause delay in the case that has been waiting for our review since June 14, 2013,” according to the decision by justices Michael Gableman, David Prosser, Patience Roggensack and Annette Ziegler.
Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and justices Ann Walsh Bradley and N. Patrick Crooks issued a strong dissent. They said blocking the other unions from participating is “unfair and illogical.”
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