KENOSHA, Wis. – The Kenosha Unified School District is using the “fog of political war” surrounding Gov. Scott Walker’s historic collective bargaining reform law – known as Act 10 – to reinstate automatic union dues deductions for teachers and other school employees who request the service.

The district’s decision takes effect on Feb. 19, but Act 10 supporters say the move is in direct violation of the law, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

The confusion stems from a 2012 ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colás, who “declared key elements of Act 10 violated the state constitution, including the one dealing with dues deductions,” the Journal Sentinel reports.

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There have been several appeals and injunctions since then, which have created chaos and uncertainty throughout the state. The only beneficiaries of this confusion have been teacher unions like the Kenosha Education Association (KEA), which succeeded in getting enough pro-union school board members to grant them a new contract last November.

That new contract, which runs through the end of the 2014-15 school year, contains an automatic dues deduction provision, the Journal Sentinel reports.

Critics say the board’s contract decision was a boneheaded move, as Wisconsin school districts in the Act 10 era can replace collectively bargained contracts with employee handbooks that simply set forth employees’ work rules, wages and benefits.

A former Kenosha teacher and a current one – with the help of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) and the National Right to Work Foundation – have filed a lawsuit against the district and the teachers union.

“We say the (district’s) collective bargaining agreement violates Act 10,” WILL Education Policy Director C.J. Szafir told the paper.

The case is being heard in Kenosha County Circuit Court, though everyone seems to agree that only a final word from the state Supreme Court will settle the controversy.

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“We need a final binding legal authority telling us what we can and cannot do so we can move forward,” Kenosha school official Sheronda Glass told Journal Sentinel.