University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics – which doesn?t receive state money directly – would be barred from collectively bargaining with its roughly 5,000 union employees under Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed budget-repair bill.
The provision surprised health system executives.
“We did not anticipate and certainly did not request elimination of the right to bargain, and we have communicated this to the Governor,” Donna Katen-Bahensky, president and chief executive of the health system, wrote in an e-mail to employees on Friday.