Netroots Livestream: The Attack on America’s Middle Class, and the Plan to Fight Back
Tags: Al Franken, Bob Kuttner, collective bargaining, Joseph Hansen, Lee Saunders, Mary Bell, Mary Kay Henry,Union, WEAC, WI, Wisconsin, Wisconsin collective bargaining
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Time: Saturday, June 18 · 10:00am – 11:30am EDT (9:00am – 10:30am CDT)
Wisconsin Education Association Council President Mary Bell will participate in a keynote presentation on defending America’s middle class. Americans of all walks are angry, loud and organized to retain collective bargaining as the bedrock of the middle class and to expand the power of working people. Why are public sector workers bearing the brunt of this attack, and what is next? How can we continue to fight for workers even as more states try to strip away our right to collectively bargain? And how can progressive activists stand up for and with the middle class against corporations who are attempting to buy our government? Other speakers include Sen. Al Franken, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, UFCW President Joseph Hansen and economist Bob Kuttner. Moderated by Ari Melber of The Nation.