Pocan and Risser are submitting legislation to restore collective bargaining rights

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While many will see this as symbolic, they are doing what they were elected to do. They are still fighting and I have a tremendous amount of admiration for them, and the co-sponsors.

The bill is expected to receive a bill number in the next two weeks and will be submitted to a legislative committee in the Assembly and Senate.

"I helped implement collective bargaining in the 1959 legislative session and it worked, resulting in over 50 years of labor peace in Wisconsin," Risser said in a statement. "What Republicans did was unprecedented, spiteful and contrary to our Wisconsin values."


Of course Fitzgerald is an arrogant ass about it.

"Collective bargaining will come back when the people of Wisconsin want it to come back, not because of two Madison legislators proposing a bill," added Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, in the statement. "When the Democrats were in charge, their answer was job-killing tax hikes and more government. We're not going to go back to that broken model just so Mark Pocan and Fred Risser can make a political point."

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