Expert: Impact of Right-to-Work difficult to accurately track

RHINELANDER - Lawmakers in the Wisconsin State Senate will start focusing on a right to work bill proposal next week.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Friday that a public hearing will be held Tuesday on the measure by the Senate Labor Committee. Debate will begin Wednesday in the Senate and continue until there's a vote.

The legislation would make it illegal for a business to require an employee to pay union dues or join a union to work, giving a worker the "right to work" without having to join a union. Meanwhile, economists look at Right-to-Work legislation from a different angle.

Full story: WJFW

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