Jun 29 NewsHour Connect: The End of Collective Bargaining in Wisconsin By Lauren Knapp Wisconsin's controversial new collective bargaining law takes effect on Wednesday. The law severely diminishes state employee's collective bargaining rights and enacts what is essentially an 8 percent cut in pay for state workers. Salaries are not being directly cut, but… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch Divided Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Collective-Bargaining Restraints The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to uphold a controversial law, backed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, to deny some public workers their right to collective bargaining. Judy Woodruff discusses what's ahead in the ongoing legal and political battles with… Continue watching
May 11 Will Wisconsin's Recall Elections Hold Clues to 2012? By Dante Chinni With the 2012 presidential race in early stages and the political press looking for clues about the mood of the electorate, politics in Wisconsin has become a national story. The battles between new Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Democrats and the… Continue reading
Apr 07 What Does Wisconsin Special Election Mean for Democrats, Republicans? The political world, especially its left side, is abuzz over Tuesday's special state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. The race was nonpartisan, at least technically. On Thursday, the official count of the election swung back to give the… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama's Libya Stance, Wisconsin Union Fight Shields and Brooks on Obama's Stance on Libya's Revolt, Wisc. Union Fight… Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch Wisconsin Protesters Vow to Fight Vote to Curb Bargaining Rights In Wisconsin, GOP Assembly OKs Collective Bargaining Curbs… Continue watching
Mar 09 Wis. Senate's Surprise Vote to Restrict Bargaining Stuns Unions, Democrats Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; file photo In a swift and surprising move that caught Democrats and union leaders off-guard, Republicans in Wisconsin's state Senate approved a bill Wednesday night that would curtail collective bargaining rights for most public unions… Continue reading
Mar 09 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified By Paul Solman With all the strife over public-sector unions, including irate e-mails in response to our pension coverage on the program, we thought we'd lighten the mood by sharing some recent political cartoons. Continue reading
Mar 08 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified As debates rage in government halls across the U.S., political cartoonists have taken to skewering all sides -- and making points while they're at it. Here's a few of our favorites. Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch AFL-CIO's Trumka: No American Should Face Choice Between Rights, Job Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, a voluntary federation of 57 U.S. and international labor unions. Many AFL-CIO members would be affected by pending state-level legislation that would cut collective-bargaining rights for public employees. Continue watching