Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has carefully avoided endorsing a “right-to-work” measure that would weaken private sector unions, but he is happy to take credit for making much of the Wisconsin public sector “right-to-work,” meaning that employees can no longer be forced to pay union dues even if they are represented by a union.

“You have money that was forcibly taken from people without them having any say about that,” Walker recently told the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. “That’s where I thought the corruption was.”

And yet, under Walker’s watch, “forced unionism,” as conservatives refer to it, is alive and well for a significant portion of the state’s public employees: Police officers and firefighters.

Public safety personnel, who retained the bargaining rights that Act 10 stripped from other public workers, still work under union contracts that require them to pay dues to support the cost that the union undertakes to represent them.