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Wis. recall effort highlights unions’ election-year efforts

By Jim Rutenberg and Steven Greenhouse

 |  NEW YORK TIMES  

  April 29, 2012

“Recall Walker’’ bumper stickers dotted the workers’ parking lot at the Georgia Pacific paper mill on Day Street here one recent afternoon, proof of their union’s role in the effort to oust Gov. Scott Walker from office early for his legislation limiting public employees’ bargaining rights. The recall vote here has been billed as a critical test of labor muscle versus corporate money. But it is only a warm-up for a confrontation that will play out on a much larger scale during the presidential election.

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