A pro-worker majority is at stake in Wisconsin's upcoming Supreme Court election
The April 1 election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pitting Judge Susan Crawford against Judge Brad Schimel, will have serious consequences for the state’s working families. Judge Crawford has demonstrated support of policies that raise workers’ wages and protect workers’ rights, while Judge Schimel supports policies that have demonstrably hurt Wisconsin workers and their families.
The race is drawing such high-profile attention because so much is at stake in this race. Wisconsin Supreme Court seats are nonpartisan, but it is widely understood that a Crawford victory will retain the 4-3 pro-worker majority on the bench, while a Schimel victory will flip the Supreme Court in a direction that will be detrimental for working families.
The election of Scott Walker as governor in 2010, along with a Tea Party-backed Republican majority, undid a host of pro-worker policies in rapid succession. The Wisconsin Supreme Court may soon issue rulings on many of them. Among the changes they made:
Walker and the GOP passed Act 10 in 2011, severely limiting public-sector collective bargaining rights, and then a few years later passed a so-called “right-to-work” measure to hobble private-sector unions.
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