MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald’s office now says it does not have a firm count yet of how many members plan to vote for a right-to-work bill.
The Republican Fitzgerald told WTMJ Radio in Milwaukee Friday he believes he’ll have the 17 votes for passage by the end of the session.
Fitzgerald said lawmakers were “coming around” on the issue of right-to-work — in which employers would not be able to require workers to join unions or pay union-dues as conditions of employment.
Fitzgerald had originally called for approval of a right-to-work bill early in the new session. Later, he said support for the measure in the Senate was unclear — and he now says he’d like a vote after the April 7th elections, when a full complement of senators will be on board after Glenn Grothman’s seat gets filled.
The Republican Grothman was elected to Congress in November.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
