(The following appeared on the CNN website on February 25, 2011.)
The Wisconsin state Assembly passed a Republican bill Friday that strips most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, but the fight over the bill seems far from over.
The bill still has to be passed in the Wisconsin Senate, which could prove to be a more contentious battle.
Fourteen Democratic Senators have fled to neighboring Illinois to prevent a quorum from voting on the issue, and they remained absent early Friday.
Thousands have also protested the bill in recent days.
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