article_snippet: As legislators passed the new bill on Feb. 28,  thousands of opponents braved sub-freezing temperatures to rally outside the state capitol in Madison, chanting union slogans and listening to speeches.
article_snippet: It was a far cry from larger protests that engulfed the capital city in 2011 when he endorsed a plan to cut $1.5 billion of state spending by requiring unionized government workers to fund some of unionized government workers own health benefits.
article_snippet: The proposal, which he later signed into law, also gave school districts the power to hire and fire without regard for seniority, something opposed by teachers unions.
article_snippet: Getting that legislation to Walker's desk proved problematic, however: At one point 14 Democratic legislators fled the state to nearby Chicago, Illinois, denying Republicans the quorum Republicans needed to hold a vote.
article_snippet: He later survived a recall campaign led by unions, collecting more votes than He had during He election to office.
article_snippet: About 5,000 union supporters marched against 'right to work' legislation on Feb. 28 in Madison, WIsconsin, a fraction of the estimated 100,000 who had massed near the state capitol four years earlier in another anti-Scott Walker protest .
article_snippet: The super PAC supporting anti-Scott Walker, called Our American Revival, defended the right-to-work law on Tuesday. '
highlights_snippet: Republican-dominated state legislature approved a bill in just two weeks .