About 70 unionized UW-Madison food service workers and their supporters picketed the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery work site Monday to protest the university?s alleged complicity in a practice nearly as old as capitalism itself: union busting. The 1,500-member Local 171 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is irked because three dining venues planned for the privately owned parts of WID will not employ its members.
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