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Two Wisconsin unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139 and 420, filed a law suit against Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, and the chairman of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, James Daley, over a 2011 law that significantly reduced workers’ rights in collective bargaining. Wisconsin Act 10 bars employees from bargaining over anything other than wages, and stopped the practice of union dues being automatically taken out of their paychecks. The Operating Engineer’s two chapters are claiming that the Act violates their first amendment rights, and filed a law suit in Milwaukee federal court on Friday.