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Madison, Wis., music teacher Anthony Cao is standing up with thousands of his colleagues at the statehouse, protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s hasty attempt to eradicate workers’ rights in the state.
Supporters will conduct a fundraiser Tuesday for 12 fired retail cleaning workers and will call on their former employer, Lunds & Byerly’s stores, to meet with the workers.
Public employees and their families, friends, and neighbors will be conducting a protest picket Saturday, Feb. 19, in Hudson, Wis., "to bring attention to the historic and extreme reversal of worker\’s rights being railroaded through the Wisconsin Legislature."
Hundreds of Minnesota workers jammed the state Capitol Wednesday to demand that lawmakers focus on creating jobs – and stop attacks on public employees and other workers. With video.
Schools in Madison were closed Wednesday as hundreds of teachers joined thousands of people at the state Capitol to protest Governor Scott Walker’s plan to strip workers’ rights.
Members of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers issued a statement in solidarity with Wisconsin workers seeking to retain their collective bargaining rights.
Even though it will mean fewer jobs in state government and painful cuts to some public services, Minnesota unions are praising Governor Mark Dayton’s 2012-2013 budget for protecting working families and asking the wealthy to pay their fair share.
Minnesota union members will rally for jobs and other pro-worker policies at the Minnesota AFL-CIO’s Day on the Hill Wednesday, Feb 16.
Wisconsin activists are answering Gov. Scott Walker’s assault on middle-class jobs and collective bargaining with neighborhood canvasses, a two-day lobbying and rally blitz at the state capital, television ads and social media campaigns.
After five or more long years of just being aided on things like grievances, Alan Jackimowicz, a Transportation Security Officer at Detroit’s international airport, is looking forward to getting a union that can bargain for him.
