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As Democrats fend off Republicans' attempts to take control of the Senate this year, they'll turn to fundraisers and activists who have been powerful allies in the past. But if they're looking to organized labor for help, even in states where unions have had a lot of clout, they may be disappointed.

"Many labor leaders and union members are still fuming," 

wrote New York Times journalist Stephen Greenhouse

, Wisconsin's new law curbing collective bargaining rights for public workers. 

"The problem isn't that most people hate unions, 

. "The problem for unions is that most people don't care about them, or think about them, at all."


How has Wisconsin, which a half-century ago was 

the first state to give public-sector unions

 the right to negotiate contracts, changed the labor landscape in America? On The Daily Circuit, we debate whether unions can ever regain the power and influence they once yielded.

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We look at how unions will influence upcoming elections nationwide.

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