04/10/2023 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Nick Niedzwiadek
RIGHT-TO-WORK OPPONENTS STAKE OUT NEW BATTLEGROUND: Abortion rights might have been the policy deemed the biggest maybe-winner after last week’s state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. But the state’s now-liberal leaning court — and the authority on redistricting that comes with it — could also soon cause right-to-work backers to break a sweat.
“We want Wisconsin to be the next Michigan,” said Ryan Neibauer, political director at IBEW Local 494. The union’s PAC backed Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz in the race.
To refresh: Michigan last month became the first state in decades to repeal a right-to-work law, laws that allow union-represented workers to opt against paying union dues as a condition of employment.
The union victory came after an independent redistricting commission helped make it possible for Democrats to win unified control of the state’s legislature. Now, some union representatives say they’re looking for another W in Wisconsin.
“To overturn the right-to-work law, the primary issue here is, elect someone who is going to take a fresh look at the gerrymandered maps,” said Richard Kolodziejski, a spokesperson for the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters. The union funds the Wisconsin Carpenters PAC, which backed Protasiewicz.
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