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Omaha Steve

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Tue Feb 24, 2015, 03:54 PM Feb 2015

Right-to-work supporters, opponents clash in Senate committee hearing on Wisconsin bill

Source: The Cap Times

By Jessie Opoien

A public hearing on Wisconsin's right-to-work bill amounted to a ping-pong match between supporters and opponents during its first hours Tuesday morning.

Testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform began at 10 a.m., with the first several hours scheduled for comments from invited experts speaking for and against Senate Bill 44.

Speakers alternated between supporters and opponents, with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald opening the hearing.

"This issue, at its heart, is about worker freedom," Fitzgerald, the bill's author, said.

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Union laborers lined up outside a hearing of the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform Tuesday. They were registering their opposition to right-to-work legislation while the committee heard expert testimony in favor and opposed to the bill.



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Right-to-work supporters, opponents clash in Senate committee hearing on Wisconsin bill (Original Post) Omaha Steve Feb 2015 OP
I doubt that the debate matters. The Wisconsin GOP is determined to turn it into Kansas. sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #1

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