MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he won't allow a bill making Wisconsin a right to work state to come up for a vote.
Vos spoke Monday before the start of the two-year legislative session.
Gov. Scott Walker last month said he wouldn't pursue right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin like what passed in Michigan because he believes it would be a "huge distraction" to job creation efforts.
Many Democrats, union leaders and others have worried that Republicans would push to make Wisconsin a right-to-work state after passage of a 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
That measure generated massive protests and a series of recall elections, including one Walker survived in June.
Vos says not every issue the Legislature takes up needs to be that divisive.
| Approve: | 46.0% |
| Disapprove: | 49.0% |
| Spread: | -3.0% |
| Republican: | 39.0% |
| Democrat: | 41.7% |
| Spread: | +2.7% |
| Right Direction: | 31.3% |
| Wrong Track: | 59.4% |
| Spread: | -28.1% |
| Approve: | 14.4% |
| Disapprove: | 77.6% |
| Spread: | -63.2% |
