Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is Wisconsin's largest business group. It says its members include large and small manufacturers, service companies, local chambers of commerce and specialized trade associations. WMC is also a lobbying organization and often gets involved in state political races.
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
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Says Gov. Tony Evers "tried to make us pay even more at the pump by hiking the gas tax."
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“Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth”
"Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana…
"Typical minimum wage earners in America are teenagers living with their parents in middle class families."
Wisconsin’s laws "ranked the worst in the world for mining investment."
"When Nancy Nusbaum was Brown County executive, spending went up nearly 50 percent."
Protesters "attacked" the group’s headquarters with "graffiti on the sidewalk" and "stenciled images … smeared on the building and statue."
An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity.
Says four Democratic state senators voted to "raise taxes on Wisconsin workers by another $510 a month so freeloaders can get free state-run health care."