KENOSHA, Wis. – The Kenosha, Wisconsin teachers union is no more.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Kenosha Education Association failed to file for recertification by Wisconsin’s Aug. 30 annual deadline, and will no longer be recognized as the collective bargaining unit for teachers in the Kenosha Unified School District.

The recertification requirement is part of Gov. Scott Walker’s landmark 2011 legislation known as Act 10, which limits collective bargaining for most state employee unions to wages only, capped at the rate of inflation.

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Several large Wisconsin school districts, including Kenosha, continued to operate under collective bargaining agreements signed before Act 10 became law. Several of those contracts expired July 1, allowing school officials and staff to take advantage of Act 10 provisions.

Union contracts in Milwaukee and Janesville school districts also expired in July, but teachers in those districts recertified by the state deadline, Peter Davis, general counsel for the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission told the Journal Sentinel.

That means Kenosha union officials can’t bargain with the district over teacher pay, or much else. Christina Brey, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Education Association Council – the state teachers union, seems to think recertification is no biggie.

“It seems like the majority of our affiliates in the state aren’t seeking re-certification, so I don’t think the (Kenosha Education Association) is an outlier or unique in this,” Brey told the Journal Sentinel.

“They just can’t negotiate over a small portion of what they want a voice in,” she said.

But Brian McNicoll, with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, reports it’s more than that. Teachers in Kenosha didn’t simply not seek recertification, they voted to dump their teachers union.

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By a margin of two to one, Kenosha teachers voted to decertify in an election this week. Only 37 percent wanted to affiliate with the Kenosha Education Association.

Institute policy analyst Matt Patterson said there’s a reason teachers and other state employees have dropped out of their unions since Act 10 took effect.

“Gov. Walker’s bold and effective reforms have loosened the grip of unions on Wisconsin’s public purse, to the benefit of taxpayers and to the detriment of Big Labor Bosses. The news today proves what unions have long feared – that when workers are actually given a free and fair choice, they will often choose to opt out of union membership altogether,” Patterson said.

“The public at large – and an increasing number of union members – have become wise to the fact labor unions stifle innovation and burden governments and businesses with unsustainable costs and regulations.”