Labor & Employment Law

Solidarity in Action: Check Out This New Video

By Tula Connell

Check out this great video from our team here that pulls together some of the many moments of people power in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states where governors and state legislatures are trying to take away the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs. It gives a glimpse of the huge outpouring of nationwide support and solidarity for workers under siege by lawmakers who are bought and paid for by billionaire CEOs like the Koch brothers.

As Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley says in the clip:

When you try to make unions the problem rather than the politically difficult decisions that we have to make as a people, then you’re not being very forthright and honest with the citizenry you’re representing.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).