Wisconsin Governor-Elect and Democratic Leaders Target Repeal of Act 10 and Right-to-Work Law
Wisconsin Governor-elect David Crowley and Democratic legislative leaders said on November 12 that they will push to repeal the state's right-to-work law and Act 10, the 2011 law restricting collective bargaining.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Dianne Hesselbein said her caucus has enough votes to repeal the right-to-work law, which bars union contracts from requiring workers to pay union fees, and to restore prevailing-wage requirements for public construction projects, and that repealing Act 10 will be a priority.
Incoming Assembly Speaker Greta Neubauer said her caucus will take the related court litigation into account as it makes its plans.
The state Supreme Court this week agreed to hear the unions' 2023 lawsuit challenging Act 10. A Dane County judge had sided with the unions, but an appeals court reversed that decision in 2024.
Act 10, pushed through in 2011 by then-Governor Scott Walker, sharply limited collective bargaining rights for most public-sector employees and sparked mass protests at the State Capitol. Democrats won the governorship and control of both legislative chambers in this fall's elections, for the first time in 16 years.
Source: Wisconsin Legislative Democratic Leaders
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Photo: 威斯康星州议会大厦，位于 Madison。Warren LeMay 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 2.0。 / The Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Photo by Warren LeMay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
