DAN SIMMONS
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University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staffers would have won the right to unionize and collectively bargain for wages, same as other public employees, in an early draft of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 state budget, a proposal that the UW System quickly moved to stop. It ultimately didn’t end up in Walker’s budget, which was released publicly last week.
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