Marty Beil, Executive Director of AFSCME Council 24 representing 24,000 state workers in Wisconsin, says Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle is refusing to allow mediation to resolve new state employee contracts.

[Marty Beil] : "Apparently the governor has been having tea with the governors in Missouri and Indiana because he's taken a very anti-union, anti-state employee position. It's pretty callous on his part."

That's a reference to newly elected GOP governors in Indiana and Missouri wiping out collective bargaining for state employees. Gov. Doyle, a Democrat, isn¹t moving against collective bargaining but Beil says there are serious unresolved issues and a mediator could help break the impasse.