Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of

Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions have scored a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law.

A Dane County judge has restored collective bargaining powers to teachers and other public workers, ending a near-total ban on collective bargaining since 2011, throwing out a law known as Act 10. Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost ruled in favor of unions who filed a lawsuit a year ago.