State employee union leaders rebuff irked workers’ bid to depose them

Leaders of the Wisconsin State Employees Union have held off an attempt by angry prison guards and others to win key executive board seats in the wake of the failed recall attempt against Gov. Scott Walker. At least some union members continue to question the union?s pre-primary endorsement of Kathleen Falk and donations to her campaign after polls showed her behind eventual Democratic Party nominee Tom Barrett, said Dan Meehan, a prison guard who narrowly lost a bid for statewide vice president at the union?s annual convention over the weekend. “Rage is what it is ? absolutely, completely,” Meehan said. “My members don?t feel they?ve got a voice anymore.”