It extended collective bargaining rights to a class of new workers and allowed same-day voter registration.
He also extended collective bargaining rights to urban workers, but, for the most part, the reforms served to encourage economic growth and to benefit the middle class.
This approach may well be extended to bargaining over budget resolutions as well, with Republicans threatening a government shutdown unless they get what they want.
When Wisconsin extended collective bargaining to public employee unions in 1959, said Jonathan Kasparek, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin in Waukesha, politicians and the general public considered it an issue of basic fairness.
4. Doctors: Vote on an amendment to a bill extending collective bargaining rights to doctors that makes clear that the right to bargain collectively does not apply to negotiations to force a health plan to perform or pay for abortions.
She has warned that empowering the prosecution and extending plea bargaining could create an institutional bias to over-penalize petty crime and bargain-down corporate crime.
E1 Helping Playwrights Negotiate Two senators offered legislation to extend collective bargaining rights to many American playwrights.
Those include the abolition of investigating magistrates; the use of juries in only the most serious criminal proceedings; tighter minimum sentences; and extending plea bargaining.
Education historians said the unions were facing the harshest political climate since states began extending legal bargaining rights to schoolteachers decades ago.
When Gov. Gaylord A. Nelson, a Democrat, sought to extend collective bargaining rights to municipal workers in 1959, he did so in partnership with a Legislature in which one house was controlled by the Republicans.
