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Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor to Discuss Labor Issues at Dinner in Darboy.

By Pete Bach, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 1--DARBOY, Wis.--Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton says the union-management relationship in the Fox Cities offers a refreshing break from the acrimony organized labor has endured elsewhere in the state this year.

Lawton will serve as keynote speaker at tonight's 54th annual Fox Valley Labor-Management Dinner at the Darboy Club.

"When you look at Tyson Foods and what they're doing with their labor in Jefferson, the effort in the Fox Valley to fight that tr

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