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Madison, WI, United States (AHN) – A Dane County judge on Thursday suspended the implementation of a law repealing collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin on grounds that Republican lawmakers passed it illegally.

Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled that GOP senators violated the state’s open meetings law when they passed Act 10 on March 9 on short notice.

Under the open meetings law, the public should be given at least two hours’ notice for any public meetings.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat, petitioned the court to block the law after Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca claimed in a complaint that the public and Democrat lawmakers were not notified properly of the convening of a Senate committee that amended the bill and voted to pass it into law.

Senate staff announced the meeting on bulletin boards in the Capitol and informed legislators by e-mail at past 4 p.m. on March 9. The committee convened at 6 p.m. that day so the notice was made less than two hours as mandated by state law.

Only 20 people were allowed to attend the meeting, with Barca as the only Democrat present. Some 3,000 people who were refused entry into the meeting room signed a petition to make a record of the incident.

Gov. Scott Walker sought the law to balance Wisconsin’s 2012-2013 budget. The case will go to the state Supreme Court, which will decide on June 6 if it will take it.

Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, the brother of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, insisted that Act 10 was passed legally and expressed optimism that the Supreme Court will uphold its validity.

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By Amanda Iacone Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Virginia has spent millions encouraging businesses to add jobs or relocate to the state’s Southside region during the past two years, but the region continues to lag behind the rest of the state in jobs. In March, the region — the southern end of Virginia’s Piedmont area — had a [...]

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Sacramento, CA, United States (AHN) – California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday was set to unveil an updated budget plan to close a record $26.6 billion deficit while taking into account better-than-expected April tax receipts and Republican opposition to a June ballot on tax extensions.

The announcement will come as the end of the fiscal year looms, and teachers and students in the state, which has the nation’s largest university system and the world’s eighth-largest economy, protest further cuts.

Brown early this year proposed a plan reducing spending by $12.5 billion, including $1.4 billion in cuts to higher education, and generating $12 billion from an extension of taxes that are due to expire this summer.

The tax extensions require a June ballot that in turn, must first be approved by two Republicans from the Assembly and two from the state Senate. The deadline for including the extensions in the ballot has passed, and unions have asked lawmakers to instead pass a bill allowing the ballot.

The governor’s revised budget plan is expected to seek at least some of his revenue-generating tax hikes even as Republicans point out the state’s more than $2 billion in unanticipated April tax revenue.

Last week, Brown announced drastic measures such as eliminating the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and shuttering 70 of 278 state parks, including the governor’s mansion.

Eliminating the appeals board, which is composed of appointees who preside over appeals on disputes about jobless and disability claims, would save the state $1.2 million.

The closure of parks would reduced spending by $11 million in the fiscal year starting in July, and another $22 million the following year. Parks with the least attendance and cultural and environmental significance were chosen for the closure, which will not affect 92 percent of public attendance in parks.

Brown, who served as governor for two terms nearly three decades ago, also plans to merge the state’s two personnel agencies into a single human resources department to save at least $5.8 million.

Previously, he ordered a hiring freeze and slashed the number of state cars and cell phones by 50 percent.

Republicans, who released an alternative budget plan last week, have railed against the latest proposals as “posturing” and ” misguided threats.”

State GOP spokesman Mark Standriff called the planned closure of parks “a ‘Washington Monument Strategy’ that is both cynical and manipulative, and shows little respect for the taxpayers.”

The Republican plan relies on the higher April revenue to prevent cuts to education and law enforcement. It does not raise taxes and calls on state workers to “do their part” with a 10 percent reduction in pay, benefits and other employee costs, which the GOP says would provide the government with $1.1 billion in savings.

The California Teachers Association, which held statewide protests last week, said the GOP’s alternative proposal would leave a $14.7 billion budget gap and fails to provide “real solutions.”

The San Francisco Chronicle said in its editorial on Monday that the GOP plan “should be dismissed as a nonstarter,” because it “included a heavy dose of borrowing and reliance on ‘savings.’ ” The newspaper also blasted Republicans for pushing “a ridiculously long wish list that strayed far from the subject of the budget.”

In March, Brown ended negotiations with Republicans after what he said was “an ever changing list of collateral demands” in return for support for a special election, such as giving a $1 billion tax break to out-of-state corporations so the companies would bring jobs to California.

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California’s new prepaid debit card for disability and unemployment benefits won high praise Tuesday from the National Consumer Law Center for the best services with the fewest junk fees. New Jersey was the only other state to get two thumbs up in…

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Florida residents would no longer get up to 26 weeks of state unemployment benefits come 2012, under a bill state lawmakers approved late last week.

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London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – The pay gap between public and private sector employees in Britain widened further from 2008 to 2010, according to a study by British think tank Policy Exchange released over the weekend.

According to the report, a government sports and leisure assistant got an average pay hike of 13.5 percent during the three-year period, while a worker in a private company with a similar job go only an average pay hike of 12.2 percent.

Worse off were private school teachers who even got a 12 percent pay cut, while their public school counterparts received a salary adjustment of 2.1 percent.

Reckoned on an hourly basis, the hourly rate of a mid-income public employee was $20.31 (GBP 13.54), while that of a private sector worker was about $15.09 (GBP 10.06).

However, certain private sector high earners such as bankers, football players and television stars have salaries that were much higher than their public counterparts.

Union officials however are downplaying the Policy Exchange study citing the return of the culture of large city bonuses, while council staff are going through job reductions.

Private company workers, though are expected to catch up because state workers’ pay is frozen until 2008 as Britain reduces its budget deficit and debt. Chancellor George Osborne has sought at least a two-year nationwide wage freeze for public workers and to reform pension systems for state workers.

The only exception to the rule of the larger pay hike was in Yorkshire. The pay disparity was particularly felt in Wales and the northwest.

According to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 20.4 percent of U.K.’s population are employed in the public sector. The number had actually gone down from 21.1 percent and is expected to be further reduced because of the coalition government’s austerity measures.

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An Assembly committee advanced legislation Thursday that would slow a looming increase, as well as future decreases, in taxes paid by businesses into the state’s unemployment fund.

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Detroit, MI, United States (AHN) – Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is threatening workers in the city he will void their collective bargaining agreements by passing a new state law that would lead to the appointment of a fiscal manager who would cancel the pacts.

Bing is pushing for the municipal workers to pay more for health care and pensions.

Initiatives by Republican governors to cut government spending and labor power by curtailing collective bargaining rights have been largely successful even as union leaders protested such attempts in Wisconsin and Ohio. However, Bing did not encounter such stiff resistance among the 12,000 municipal workers.

Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, said the lack of massive objection to Bing’s budget proposals was probably due to the city workers viewing him as a political leader seeking concessions and not to emasculate the unions.

The city previously closed 24 offices spread over five days in the first quarter of 2011 as part of budget-mandated furloughs to cut costs. The offices closed on Jan. 31, Feb. 14 and 28, and March 14 and 28.

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Non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates dipped in all but two Tennessee counties in March, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced today. Lincoln County registered the …

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