Prison guards vote to leave Wisconsin State Employees Union

The Wisconsin State Journal reports:

Prison guards voted Thursday to break away from the once-powerful Wisconsin State Employees Union, already wobbly at the knees after a 2011 state law effectively ended public sector union rights. The vote was 1,548-1,108 for the split. “From the governor’s office on down, everybody is watching this to see if this is the first domino to fall,” said Brian Cunningham, a guard at Waupun Correctional Institution who is interim president of the new union, the Wisconsin Association for Correctional Law Enforcement.