Labor & Employment Law

Sunday Morning Wrap-Up

By Donna Jablonski

Sixty-thousands working people were at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison yesterday continuing the massive protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on middle-class jobs and workers’ collective bargaining rights–and they’re coming back again today. Between 1,000 and 2,000 tea partiers turned out yesterday–but guess who got the big media coverage?

Let’s keep spreading the real news via our social media channels so the truth gets out widely. On Twitter use hashtags #notmywi and #stateSOS. Add your voice on the We Are One solidarity page on Facebook .

More updates:

• Across Wisconsin and across the country solidarity events are spreading–at least 50 events already are planned for this week in 29 states, with working families, veterans, seniors, students, women’s groups, faith groups, environmentalists and many others. Stay tuned and watch your e-mail for more details.
• Baloney-detectors blared yesterday on Gov. Walker’s claims that his assault is about the state’s budget. Local unions and Democratic state legislators offered to accept wage, health care and pension changes in Walker’s budget scam to retain collective bargaining rights. Walker refused.
• Meanwhile, Walker is simultaneously adding to his state’s deficit and outsouring Wisconsin jobs!
• Watch for a big concert in Madison Monday with Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and the Street Dogs (offshoot of Drop Kick Murphys).
• In Michigan, Republicans in the state Senate are peeling off from supporting SB 5, an attack on public workers’ collective bargaining rights. And Gov. Rick Snyder is saying he won’t “pick fights” with the state’s unions. “We’re going to negotiate with our unions in a collective-bargaining fashion to achieve our goals,” he said, accordiing to WSJOnline. Now there’s an idea for Gov. Walker.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 20, 2011 (boomark / email).