Details on MATC Union Contract, Board Deliberations

Last night, the Milwaukee Area Technical College District Board voted, 5-3, to approve a new contract with AFT-Local 212 for full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and paraprofessionals.  The current contract does not expire until February 15, 2014, and the new...

Act 10 Is Still the Law

There has been considerable confusion regarding the impact of litigation regarding Act 10. A recent decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in WEAC v. Walker upheld the law in its entirety. In September 2012, in Madison Teachers v. Walker, Judge Juan Colas of...

GAB Nomination Panel Selected

Before oral arguments this morning, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court selected, by random drawing, the four court of appeals judges who will sit on a committee to nominate the next member of the Government Accountability Board.  The...

Supreme Court Candidate Forum

Today, two WILL attorneys, Tom Kamenick and CJ Szafir, attended a candidate forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association featuring the three candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  The candidates, incumbent Justice Pat Roggensack, Marquette law professor Ed Fallone,...