Mahlon Mitchell has picked up another endorsement from a prominent union group this week in a crowded field of Democratic candidates for Wisconsin governor.
The leader of the nation's largest public sector union said Wednesday that defeating Gov. Scott Walker is its top priority this fall, a pledge that the Wisconsin Republican's campaign dismissed as a sign that unions were bitter over his success.
Special interest groups in Wisconsin spent less trying to sway state law and policy in the first half of 2013 than in comparable past periods. But it’s still a whole lotta moolah.
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights in a decision hailed by Republicans but not undoing a state court ruling keeping much of the law from being in effect.
Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014 - part of a renewed offensive against perceived anti-union policies.