first, second, third grade and think you're going to make up
>> All right, Representative Kitchens, thanks very much.
>> Well, thank you. >> A lawsuit once again
challenging Wisconsin's decade old act ten law heard oral
arguments this week in a Dane County court. The suit is
brought by multiple unions and individuals representing public
employees, who argue they have been adversely affected by act
ten, act ten, or the budget repair bill was signed into law
in 2011 by then Republican Governor Scott Walker, prompting
weeks of protests that drew as many as 100,000 people to the
Capitol. The law prohibits general public employees from
collective bargaining, but like police and firefighters.
The distinctions between these two groups and how they're
applied is the basis of the lawsuit.
>> There are simply not substantial distinctions that
make the class of general employees, as defined in At ten,
differ from the class of public safety employees. There's no
substantial distinction, for example, between on the one
hand, the Capitol Police, the UW police and conservation wardens,
all of whom are, law enforcement officials with ¦arrest authority
who are deemed general employees.
between the classifications here, I think that this court
can acquire that, but cannot under rational basis, with