The labor movement looked like it suffered a huge setback in Wisconsin this winter. Governor Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in the state legislature were finally able to enact a new law that gutted collective bargaining rights for public workers. But union lawyers say that they’ve actually benefited from the struggle. Fights in Wisconsin and other states have energized their members—and swayed at least some of the public to their side.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, general counsel and deputy executive director of the Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles, says that the public seemed indifferent about unions until the Wisconsin melee. The attack in that state has “backfired,” Crabtree-Ireland believes. “People are more engaged and more interested in the balance that unions bring to relations between management and employees.”
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