Source: Ben Manski, Sarah Manski, Jacobin, March 1, 2018
The rise and fall of Wisconsin’s remarkable 2011 uprising holds lessons for a post-Janus world…..
…. Journalists reporting on the implications of the impending Janus decision often note that recent experiences in Wisconsin offer a preview. In this, they’re usually referring to the impacts of anti-union legislation signed into law in Wisconsin in 2011-2012. But we think Wisconsin offers another set of lessons as well: of how a twenty-first century mass uprising by hundreds of thousands — perhaps more than a million — working people came about in one US state, and of where that unprecedented uprising faltered. ….
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