Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor who conducted the widely followed Marquette Law School Poll this year, says it will become a challenge for organized labor to find ways to maintain its influence in the public arena.”Union people are the ones who show up to make calls on behalf of candidates from morning until night. These people aren?t going away, but their financial resources are going away, and that will make the unions weaker,” Franklin says. “The Democratic Party will have to evolve to replace some of that monetary support and to retain the people power that unions provide to the party.”
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