Employment Relations Committee, Wisconsin State Legislature

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The Employment Relations Committee is a standing committee of the Wisconsin State Legislature.

Per the Joint Rules, all joint committees will have one co-chair from each chamber. All committee hearings are open to the public, and advanced notice will be provided if time permits.

See rules: Joint Rules

Membership

2025-2026 legislative session

Employment Relations Committee, 2025-2026
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)	Third-party members(0)
Greta Neubauer Dianne Hesselbein	Robin Vos Co-Chair Mary Felzkowski Co-Chair Mark Born Tyler August Howard Marklein Devin LeMahieu

2023-2024 legislative session

Employment Relations Committee, 2023-2024
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)	Third-party members(0)
Melissa Agard Greta Neubauer	Chris Kapenga Co Chair Robin Vos Co Chair Devin LeMahieu Howard Marklein Tyler August Mark Born

2021-2022 legislative session

Employment Relations Committee, 2021-2022
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (5)	Third-party members(0)
Janet Bewley Gordon Hintz	Chris Kapenga Co-Chair Robin Vos Co-Chair Devin LeMahieu Howard Marklein Mark Born

Jim Steineke (R) left this committee on July 27, 2022. ^[Source]

2019-2020 legislative session

Employment Relations Committee, 2019-2020
Democratic members (1)	Republican members (4)	Third-party members(0)
Gordon Hintz	Roger Roth Co-Chair Robin Vos Co-Chair Jim Steineke Alberta Darling

John Nygren (R) left this committee on December 02, 2020.

Jennifer Shilling (D) left this committee on May 15, 2020.

Scott Fitzgerald (R) left this committee on January 03, 2021.

The Employment Relations Committee is composed of the following eight members:

• Senate cochairperson, Joint Finance Committee
• Assembly cochairperson, Joint Finance Committee
• Assembly majority leader
• Assembly minority leader
• Senate majority leader
• Senate minority leader
• Speaker of the Assembly
• President of the Senate

2017 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.

Employment Relations Members, 2017
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)
• Jennifer Shilling	• Roger Roth, Co-chair
• Peter Barca	• Robin Vos, Co-chair
	• Scott Fitzgerald
	• Alberta Darling
	• Jim Steineke
	• John Nygren

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

Employment Relations Committee Members, 2015
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)
• Jennifer Shilling	• Mary Lazich, Co-Chair
• Peter Barca	• Robin Vos, Co-Chair
	• Alberta Darling
	• Scott Fitzgerald
	• Jim Steineke
	• John Nygren

2013-2014

Employment Relations Committee Members, 2013
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)
• Chris Larson	• Michael Ellis, Co-chair
• Peter Barca	• Scott Fitzgerald
	• Alberta Darling
	• Robin Vos, Co-chair
	• Scott Suder
	• John Nygren

2011-2012 Session

Employment Relations Committee Members, 2011
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (6)
• Peter Barca	• Jeff Fitzgerald, Co-chair
• Mark Miller	• Scott Suder
	• Robin Vos
	• Michael Ellis, Co-chair
	• Scott Fitzgerald
	• Alberta Darling

External links

• Employment Relations Committee

Footnotes

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Current members of the Wisconsin State Senate

Leadership

Senate President:Mary Felzkowski

Majority Leader:Devin LeMahieu

Minority Leader:Dianne Hesselbein

Senators

District 1

André Jacque (R)

District 2

Eric Wimberger (R)

District 3

Tim Carpenter (D)

District 4

Dora Drake (D)

District 5

Rob Hutton (R)

District 6

LaTonya Johnson (D)

District 7

Chris Larson (D)

District 8

Jodi Sinykin (D)

District 9

Devin LeMahieu (R)

District 10

Rob Stafsholt (R)

District 11

Stephen Nass (R)

District 12

Mary Felzkowski (R)

District 13

John Jagler (R)

District 14

Sarah Keyeski (D)

District 15

Mark Spreitzer (D)

District 16

Melissa Ratcliff (D)

District 17

Howard Marklein (R)

District 18

Kristin Alfheim (D)

District 19

Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R)

District 20

Dan Feyen (R)

District 21

Van Wanggaard (R)

District 22

Robert Wirch (D)

District 23

Jesse James (R)

District 24

Patrick Testin (R)

District 25

Romaine Quinn (R)

District 26

Kelda Roys (D)

District 27

Dianne Hesselbein (D)

District 28

Julian Bradley (R)

District 29

Cory Tomczyk (R)

District 30

Jamie Wall (D)

District 31

Jeff Smith (D)

District 32

Brad Pfaff (D)

District 33

Chris Kapenga (R)

Republican Party (18)

Democratic Party (15)

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Current members of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Leadership

Minority Leader:Greta Neubauer

Representatives

District 1

Joel Kitchens (R)

District 2

Shae Sortwell (R)

District 3

Ron Tusler (R)

District 4

David Steffen (R)

District 5

Joy Goeben (R)

District 6

Elijah Behnke (R)

District 7

Karen Kirsch (D)

District 8

Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D)

District 9

Priscilla Prado (D)

District 10

Darrin Madison (D)

District 11

Sequanna Taylor (D)

District 12

Russell Goodwin (D)

District 13

Robyn Vining (D)

District 14

Angelito Tenorio (D)

District 15

Adam Neylon (R)

District 16

Kalan Haywood (D)

District 17

Supreme Omokunde (D)

District 18

Margaret Arney (D)

District 19

Ryan Clancy (D)

District 20

Christine Sinicki (D)

District 21

Jessie Rodriguez (R)

District 22

Paul Melotik (R)

District 23

Deb Andraca (D)

District 24

Daniel Knodl (R)

District 25

Paul Tittl (R)

District 26

Joe Sheehan (D)

District 27

Lindee Brill (R)

District 28

Rob Kreibich (R)

District 29

Treig Pronschinske (R)

District 30

Shannon Zimmerman (R)

District 31

Tyler August (R)

District 32

Amanda Nedweski (R)

District 33

Robin Vos (R)

District 34

Rob Swearingen (R)

District 35

Calvin Callahan (R)

District 36

Jeffrey Mursau (R)

District 37

Mark Born (R)

District 38

William Penterman (R)

District 39

Alex Dallman (R)

District 40

Karen DeSanto (D)

District 41

Tony Kurtz (R)

District 42

Maureen McCarville (D)

District 43

Brienne Brown (D)

District 44

Ann Roe (D)

District 45

Clinton Anderson (D)

District 46

Joan Fitzgerald (D)

District 47

Randy Udell (D)

District 48

Andrew Hysell (D)

District 49

Travis Tranel (R)

District 50

Jenna Jacobson (D)

District 51

Todd Novak (R)

District 52

Lee Snodgrass (D)

District 53

Dean Kaufert (R)

District 54

Lori Palmeri (D)

District 55

Nate Gustafson (R)

District 56

Dave Murphy (R)

District 57

Kevin Petersen (R)

District 58

Rick Gundrum (R)

District 59

Robert Brooks (R)

District 60

Jerry O'Connor (R)

District 61

Robert Donovan (R)

District 62

Angelina Cruz (D)

District 63

Robert Wittke (R)

District 64

Tip McGuire (D)

District 65

Ben DeSmidt (D)

District 66

Greta Neubauer (D)

District 67

David Armstrong (R)

District 68

Rob Summerfield (R)

District 69

Karen Hurd (R)

District 70

Nancy VanderMeer (R)

District 71

Vinnie Miresse (D)

District 72

Scott Krug (R)

District 73

Angela Stroud (D)

District 74

Chanz Green (R)

District 75

Duke Tucker (R)

District 76

Francesca Hong (D)

District 77

Renuka Mayadev (D)

District 78

Shelia Stubbs (D)

District 79

Lisa Subeck (D)

District 80

Mike Bare (D)

District 81

Alex Joers (D)

District 82

Scott Allen (R)

District 83

Dave Maxey (R)

District 84

Chuck Wichgers (R)

District 85

Patrick Snyder (R)

District 86

John Spiros (R)

District 87

Brent Jacobson (R)

District 88

Benjamin Franklin (R)

District 89

Ryan Spaude (D)

District 90

Amaad Rivera-Wagner (D)

District 91

Jodi Emerson (D)

District 92

Clint Moses (R)

District 93

Christian Phelps (D)

District 94

Steve Doyle (D)

District 95

Jill Billings (D)

District 96

Tara Johnson (D)

District 97

Cindi Duchow (R)

District 98

Jim Piwowarczyk (R)

District 99

Barbara Dittrich (R)

Republican Party (54)

Democratic Party (45)