Why Government Employee Unions Hate Wisconsin

In the aftermath of legislation that clips the power of public employee unions in Wisconsin, the state's largest teachers union...issued layoff notices to 42 employees.

The new legislation limits collective bargaining,...requires local unions to hold annual recertification votes, prohibits employers from automatically deducting union dues from a public worker's payroll and allows bargaining-unit members to opt out of paying union dues altogether if they wish.

The announcement of layoffs at the Wisconsin Education Association Council,... affects about 40% of its workforce....

The union has even been sending recruiters to teachers' homes to persuade them to remain in the union, possibly under the "we know where you live" school of salesmanship. Or is it 'salespersonship'?

Erin Richards of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has more here.