Quoted: ?I don?t think there?s a particularly anti-union tradition that doesn?t exit in other states,? said William Powell Jones, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who is writing a history of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and public employee unions. ?I think it?s that there?s a progressive, pro-union trend that doesn?t exist elsewhere, and there?s been conflict over that tradition.?