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In 2009, then Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker promised he would spend the county money by onset unionized courthouse section guards and exchange them with clannish section guards.  Walker claimed that using a clannish section concern at the courthouse and another county facilities would spend taxpayers more than $125,000 a year.  The organisation was rejected by the County Board.

In March of the aforementioned year, Walker, in an “emergency budget measure,” (sound familiar?)   unilaterally ordered the expulsion of the section guards and replaced them with a clannish concern after Walker claimed a potential 2010 year-end inadequacy of most $7 million.

In Jan of 2010, an intermediator ruled against Walker's actions. “The county did not hit a genuine budget crisis at the instance and county officials unsuccessful to provide the organization representing the section guards an possibleness to make whatever alternative cost-saving proposals before birthing them off,” said intermediator Amedeo Greco.

According to a inform filed at instance by Steve Schultze, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Journal Sentinel: "It's another warning here of penny-wise, pound-foolish," said Patricia Yunk, contract director for District Council 48 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. She said Walker's crisis outsourcing advise of courthouse section was an warning of how his strategy of punishing unions that unsuccessful to concord to concessions went awry.

Although the amount cost of Walker’s selection remains unknown, the judgement titled for“immediately hiring backwards the laid-off county workers with backwards pay, with some unemployment compensation or wages from a new job subtracted.  It also titled for a indorse of at small 180 days of work - the amount of instance that Greco said should hit been presented to the section guards' organization to react to Walker's privatization plan.”

It gets worse- The clannish section company hired by Walker to change the unionized section guards was no another than G4S Wackenhut, whose employees, patch guarding the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan allegedly had wild, drunken, nearly naked ‘hazing’ parties as reported by Mother Jones.  (WARNING! The photos are realistic and haw be disturbing to some).    And ease worse- The supervisor appointed by G4S Wackenhut to the Milwaukee County Courthouse and another details was removed from his post after existence institute to hit individual criminal convictions including operative a firearm patch intoxicated and disorderly conduct.