A look at Wisconsin’s labor union trends in the shadow of Act 10

The number of labor union members in Wisconsin decreased between 1983 and 2022, with a slightly steeper plummet 2010 onwards, according to data. “Wisconsin was actually the first state in the nation that legalized public sector bargaining in the United States in 1959, with the labor peace act,” Professor Michael Childers said, “Wisconsin was also the first state to greatly curtail those rights.”