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Michael Sainato

‘We were demonized’: labor unions win big in ruling on Wisconsin’s Act 10

People protesting on the street. The ones at the front are holding a banner that reads Unions For All.
Wisconsin workers and union members discuss the need for unions for all on 25 October 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for SEIU

As the labor movement braces for a second Trump term, union members and their leaders are celebrating a major victory over a controversial law that stripped public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

In response to a lawsuit alleging that a notorious law passed by the former Republican governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker in 2011 is unconstitutional, a county judge ruled on Monday that more than 60 sections of the law and several sections of a follow-up law in 2015, Act 55, are unconstitutional.

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