The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to immediately hear a case that seeks to restore collective bargaining rights lost that tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other public workers lost in

A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has rejected a Republican request that she not hear a pending case that seeks to restore collective bargaining rights that tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other state workers lost in 2011.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a lawsuit from UW Health nurses seeking to unionize more than a decade after their union was dissolved by a Republican-backed law restricting collective bargaining for public employees.