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Public-employee collective bargaining and Act 10

Baseline proposition: Wisconsin should restore public-employee collective bargaining to its pre-Act 10 status

Evidence outcome: Support

The deterministic population-consensus-without-cross-poll-averaging.v1 method classified the reviewed evidence as support for the stated baseline proposition. It did not average unlike polls or establish a campaign position.

What this does not mean

This profile reports reviewed public-opinion evidence for the exact proposition above. It is not factual proof that benefits or costs prevail, a participant mandate, a policy recommendation, or an official campaign position. Recommendation: none. Campaign position: not established.

Published exact Wisconsin registered-voter opinion context under the approved POLL-001 batch. Each proposition, population, uncertainty, wording limitation, missing voice, and no-position boundary remains separate.

Adults age 18 or older who were currently registered to vote in Wisconsin or planned to register.

As you may know, in 2011, a law known as Act 10 eliminated most collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin. Would you like to see collective bargaining for public employees returned to what it was before Act 10 was passed or keep the current law that eliminated most collective bargaining?

Return collective bargaining
53%
Keep as it is now
46%
Don't know
1%

Source and fieldwork

Marquette Law School Poll registered-voter toplines, July 8-16, 2026. Marquette University Law School; sponsored by Marquette Law School. 419 respondents, fielded July 8, 2026 through July 16, 2026. Evidence is current.

Official toplines · Official methodology

Method boundary

Directions apply only to the exact baseline proposition and do not establish a candidate position.

Reported margin of error is plus or minus 6.2 percentage points; sampling error is only one potential source of error.

Sampling, weighting, and limitations

Sampling: Full-probability hybrid Wisconsin registration-based sample and probability-based SSRS Opinion Panel, administered by web and live-interviewer telephone in English.

Weighting: Design weighting, source-specific nonresponse adjustment, compositing, and calibration to Wisconsin registered-voter demographic, 2020 presidential-result, and partisanship benchmarks.

  • Published percentages are rounded to whole numbers.
  • The survey was administered in English only by web and live-interviewer telephone.
  • Question wording, nonresponse, mode, order, measurement, and other unmeasured errors may affect the result.
  • This opinion item does not establish factual impacts, implementation authority, or a candidate position.
  • The statewide registered-voter result remains separate from affected-community evidence and member results.

Missing voices

  • Public employees and unions
  • State and local public employers
  • Service users and taxpayers

Conflicts

No conflict exists within the single admitted item. That does not establish broader agreement or replace missing evidence.

Reproducibility record

Method
population-consensus-without-cross-poll-averaging.v1
As of
2026-08-25T18:50:25Z
Profile version
8e05e873-7383-577d-a689-ec7d69dfa7ce
Profile digest
sha256:6ea3c40b3cab1a1a6634a3cf632a93e1058db4dc99cb78fbf99905ea1aa25526
Issue version digest
sha256:57d76709b2dbe7976b6c0107f8612de846816967ed93b54221adcae271015710
Published
2026-08-25T19:36:47.004886Z