Democrats chant ` ` shame , shame , shame '' moments after the vote . Fourteen Democratic senators have fled the state in bid to prevent bill from passing . Thousands have protested proposal to limit collective bargaining . Tensions simmered in Wisconsin as a political stalemate continued Friday after the state 's Assembly passed a Republican bill that would strip most state workers of the bulk of their collective-bargaining rights . Wisconsin State Assembly passed controversial bill .
Democrats chant ` ` shame , shame , shame '' moments after the vote . Fourteen Democratic senators have fled the state in bid to prevent bill from passing . Thousands have protested proposal to limit collective bargaining . Wisconsin State Assembly passed controversial bill .