Kathy Wilkes is an award-winning labor writer and editor, and a former union organizer, co-founder, officer, negotiator, and communications director. She is based in Madison.
        
               
  
      
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        “Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat
      
                    As thrilling as defeat of an archenemy may be, activists here take nothing for granted.
                          
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        “Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat
      
                                
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        How the NFL Players’ Union Can Block the League’s New Ban on Protests
      
                                
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        Red Cross Is Instructing Truckers to Draw Blood and Nurses to Load Trucks
      
                                
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        Union Rights Were the Difference Between NFL Players Kneeling for the Anthem and Bowing to Trump
      
                                
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        How UAW Won the Wisconsin Kohler Strike
      
                                
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        Scott Walker’s Campaign Failed Because Voters Actually Don’t Want a Union Buster-in-Chief
      
                                
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        In Wisconsin, A Test Case for Right to Work
      
                                
                      Kathy Wilkes