Topic: Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Opponents of Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker said on Thursday they have collected 94 percent of the signatures necessary to force him into a recall election next year.The group United Wisconsin, which opposes restrictions on public sector unions signed ...
MADISON (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered at the Wisconsin capitol on Saturday to demand a recall of Republican Governor Scott Walker, whose controversial and successful drive to limit public unions last winter sparked the biggest protests in the state since the ...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Opponents of Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, who led a controversial move to limit bargaining rights of state employees, will launch a recall effort against him with an online filing on Tuesday, organizers said.United Wisconsin, one of several groups ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's chief of staff Keith Gilkes, who helped steer the Republican governor's controversial push to curb collective bargaining rights of public sector workers, resigned on Friday.Walker's office said that Gilkes would leave his post next ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Labor unions and their Republican opponents are pouring record amounts of cash into state ballot fights over workers' rights this year that could shape the political agenda in the 2012 election.The contests in Wisconsin and Ohio -- both crucial ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A state government agency in Wisconsin finally made it official on Monday that Republican incumbent David Prosser won a hotly-contested race for a state Supreme Court seat.After a lengthy statewide recount of nearly 1.5 million ballots, the Government Accountability ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - The Wisconsin state Senate on Thursday approved a Republican-backed bill that would require photo identification to vote, and Republican Governor Scott Walker is expected to sign the measure into law.Debate over the proposal again highlighted the partisan divisions ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Opponents of a bill stripping Wisconsin public employees of most of their collective bargaining rights rallied at the state Capitol on Saturday, the day after a state agency published the measure despite an order barring such a move.Republican ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Opponents of a bill stripping Wisconsin public employees of most of their collective bargaining rights rallied at the state Capitol on Saturday, the day after a state agency published the measure despite an order barring such a move.Republican ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Scott Walker, Wisconsin's newly elected Republican governor, won his battle last week to get the curbs he backed on public-sector unions approved by the state legislature and signed into law.But the Democratic Party and organized labor, which opposed ...