Gov. Jim Doyle used his veto pen this week to weigh in on a dispute over whether some University of Wisconsin System staff can be absorbed – without an opportunity to vote – into existing labor unions.
But on Tuesday it appeared the issue may not be decided until it is sorted out before a state regulatory panel and, possibly, in the courts.
Under a provision inserted into the budget, roughly 4,000 currently unrepresented academic staffers at UW campuses could have been reassigned into the unions without a vote on the matter, state officials said last week.
Doyle struck that provision Monday in his budget vetoes.