Act 10 Five Years Later: Walker's Wins--and Ours, too!
Walker's example emboldened conservatives to stand up to Big Labor and fight for the right to work, literally and figuratively. Michigan, then Wisconsin, now West Virginia have become Right-to-Work states, with Kentucky, Missouri close behind.
Watchdog.org reports on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Act 10 reforms, signed into law in 2011.
This reform package curbed the collective bargaining power of the public sector unions in Wisconsin. They could only negotiate within certain limits on pay. They could no longer limit talks on healthcare plans. They had to pay more money into their pension and benefits systems. The unions also had to recertify every year and could no longer take money out of the workers' paychecks for union dues.