WI Assembly leaders say right to work not coming - WQOW TV: Eau Claire, WI NEWS18 News, Weather, and Sports

MADISON (WKOW) -- Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he won't allow a bill making Wisconsin a right-to-work state to come up for a vote.

Vos spoke Monday before the start of the two-year legislative session.

Governor Scott Walker last month said he wouldn't pursue right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin like what passed in Michigan because he believes it would be a "huge distraction" to job creation efforts.

Many Democrats, union leaders and others have worried that Republicans would push to make Wisconsin a right-to-work state after passage of a 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

That measure generate massive protests and a series of recall elections, including one Walker survived in June.

Vos says not every issue the Legislature takes up needs to be divisive.