Madison, Wisconsin, Opponents to the government's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers protesters in the rotunda of the state capital.

Madison, Wisconsin, Opponents to the government's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers protesters in the rotunda of the state capital.

Photograph

Carlos Javier Ortiz

Maker
American, b. 1975

Madison, Wisconsin, Opponents to the government's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers protesters in the rotunda of the state capital.

Gov. Scott Walker's plan to require public workers to pay more of their health insurance and pensions, effectively cutting the take-home pay of many 57%. Madison schools were closed for several days as employees call sick to lobby the bill.


February 2011
Inkjet print, printed 2012
Overall: 20 x 26.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Image: 16.9 x 25.3 cm (6 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2012
2012.0798.0011
Inscriptions recto (marker): 2

[no inscription verso]

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