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thedailypage.com - There were thousands of signs at Saturday’s massive demonstrations around the Capitol, either supporting or criticizing Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to weaken Wisconsin's public employee unions. But...


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politico.com - MADISON, Wisc. — Snow and ice pelted the Capitol here Sunday morning as protesters prepared yet again to storm the city and a group of Senate Democrats referring to themselves as the “Wisconsin 14”...


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modeducation.blogspot.com - While regimes across the Middle East face uprisings by workers and citizens fed up with autocratic rule, poverty and corruption, workers in the Mid-West have been protesting attacks on their workpl...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Yesterday, February 18, I attended a seminar on quality teaching sponsored jointly by the Education Writers Association and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. There were more than 50 journalists...


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theawl.com - It's already been a long weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Protesters slept on the capitol floor and some Republican state legislators, after attempting to hold an illegal vote on Friday, made excuses...


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news.yahoo.com - COMMENTARY | Secretary of Education Arne Duncan traveled Wednesday to Denver to attend a national meeting on labor-management collaboration with teachers unions. This new friendliness between the D...


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allvoices.com - Wisconsin Governor Scott WalkerScott Walker warned state employees that if changes aren’t made to benefit contributions, 10-12,000 workers will be without work. Protesters have taken their concerns...


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npr.org - The Wisconsin state Assembly intends to vote on Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all state employees. Thousands of teachers and others have descended o...


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duluthnewstribune.com - MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker ignored an offer of financial concessions by state and local public employees Saturday, calling once again for Democratic senators to stop “shirking their responsibiliti...


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rawstory.com - Tags: fox news sunday, governor, ipad, Legislature, mass demonstrations, News, republican governors, senate democrats, state, state senators, vote, wisconsin gov, workers unionsAs protests escalate...


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jd2718.wordpress.com - I received this from Anthony Cody. Please, read it, and sign up: I feel we should stand in solidarity with the teachers and other public employees in Wisconsin. Collective bargaining is a basic rig...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WEACvideo | February 19, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikesDedicated Wisconsin public employees say they have agreed to Governor Walker's pension and health care cuts, but they won't give up their rights.


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npr.org - Enlarge Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images While the legislative process stalls, politics by other means continues in the streets and in the capitol's hallways. Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images While the l...


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thonline.com - Because of the amount of traffic and the errors that automated computer scripts cause, automated computer scripts are being restricted to certain pages and certain time periods. If you feel that yo...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I say, when the unwashed hordes descend on the capital demanding this and that, it’s disturbing. For the love of Smedley, can’t those despicable Wisconsin residents stick to their cheese and leave ...


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shoqvalue.com - By Shoq, on February 18, 2011, at 8:34 am This video will tell you just about everything you need to know about what Wisconsin is all about. If the left doesn't rise to this challenge, this nation ...


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realclearpolitics.com - February 20, 2011Sam Hananel And Jim KuhnhennOrganized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a d...


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jsonline.com - Feb. 19, 2011 7:00 p.m. | Madison - During the dueling demonstrations here Saturday on Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan, doctors from various hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to pr...


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opednews.com - Cross-posted from "The Daily Narrative" at http://www.hlgoodall.com Let's face it: Rich Republicans hate government workers. Actually, they hate all union workers too. For example, let's take a...


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latimes.com - Critics portray the Los Angeles teachers union as politically all-powerful, able to swing elections and exert control over the Board of Education in the nation's second-largest school system. But i...


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motherjones.com - If you need to know the basics of what's going on in Wisconsin, read on. If you're already up to speed, you can follow the action on Twitter or jump straight to today's updates from our reporter on...


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journaltimes.com - Journal Times staff JournalTimes.com | Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:52 pm | RACINE - The Racine police and firefighters unions have come out against Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargain...


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cityofmadison.com - News Release Home For Immediate Release: Feb 19, 2011 For More Information Contact: Joel DeSpain 266-4897 SATURDAY'S CAPITOL SQUARE DEMONSTRATIONS Law Enforcement Praises Protesters' Conduct On beh...


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cbsnews.com - (CBSNews) For the past several days we've been seeing pictures of thousands of demonstrators, marching through the streets of one capital city. Not in Middle East, but in our own Middle West. Cynt...


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huffingtonpost.com - first posted at thenation.comAlready multiple members of the Super Bowl winning Green Bay Packers have taken public stands against the frightening, dictatorial, anti-union rampage of Wisconsin Gove...


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politics.gather.com - The GOP in Wisconsin values frugality. It wants to take away some rights and benefits of public workers in the state to trim the budget a bit. But where is the humanity? Doesn’t Governor Walker und...


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t-g.com - By JOHN I. CARNEY ~ jcarney@t-g.com State Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, has said in a letter that he supports teachers but that teachers unions "are in t...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Governor Scott Walker took a state headed for a great surplusand instituted tax cuts for his Republican friends, which turned the surplus into a huge deficit. Now is using this deficit to justify t...


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businessinsider.com - by Linda BealeGOP deficit-reduction hype used in ideological "values" war?crossposted with Ataxingmatter There is concerted effort to portray Social Security as ruining the country by being a signi...


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host.madison.com - Anne E. McGill madison.com | | Posted: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:30 am I agree with the stance of the State Journal's Thursday editorial, "Right direction, dangerous speed." The public has had li...


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capitolhillblue.com - By DOUG THOMPSONThe statue "Forward," on the steps of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., is blindfolded with an American flag, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. A few dozen police officers stood between su...


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wiseye.org - 02.18.11 | Assembly Floor Session (Part 4) During this portion of the Assembly Special Floor Session a quorum call was ordered and roll call was taken. Assembly Democrats came in and stopped the v...


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knoxnews.com - We have two senators who are holding out and need some pressure applied ... Senators Rusty Crowe and Jamie Woodson" Tennessee Tea Party's website. Jamie Woodson NASHVILLE -- Conservative groups are...


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crooksandliars.com - Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses for teachers protesting in Madison. B...


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abcnews.go.com - By DEAN SCHABNER, KEVIN DOLAK, CHRIS BURY and OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN Feb. 19, 2011 Some Wisconsin doctors threw their support behind teachers protesting the Republican governor's efforts to strip union...


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blog.nj.com - Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 6:41 AMDaniel DiSalvo, an assistant professor of political science at City College of New York, studies the labor movement. He wrote an article in the fall iss...


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chicagotribune.com - By Dan Hinkel Tribune reporter 7:24 p.m. CST, February 19, 2011


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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Feb 19 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Here’s an MSNBC video saying that 70,000 people attended Saturday’s protest against Gov. Walker’s plan to end collective bargaining. Other media outlets estimate the tota...


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northjersey.com - MADISON, Wis. — Thousands protesting Gov. Scott Walker's plan to cut the state budget and reduce collective bargaining rights met supporters of the Republican plan face-to-face on Saturday. A spoke...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - bigeducationape.blogspot.com -bigeducationape.blogspot.com -reuters.com - Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:08pm EST * Tea Party-backed rally outnumbered* Atmosphere friendly despite confrontation fears By James ...


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jsonline.com - Feb. 20, 2011 10:17 a.m. | Charles Woodson of the Green Bay Packers says he's with working families in Wisconsin. In a statement released Sunday morning by the National Football League Players Asso...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SATURDAY'S CAPITOL SQUARE DEMONSTRATIONSLaw Enforcement Praises Protesters' ConductOn behalf of all the law enforcement agencies that helped keep the peace on the Capitol Square Saturday, a very si...


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philly.com - Posted on Sun, Feb. 20, 2011 WASHINGTON - Organized labor is trying to reenergize and take advantage of the growing backlash over the wave of antiunion sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen ...


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news.yahoo.com - By TODD RICHMOND and JASON SMATHERS, Associated Press Todd Richmond And Jason Smathers, Associated Press – 28 mins ago MADISON, Wis. – Sometimes they cursed each other, sometimes they shook hands, ...


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americanchronicle.com - By Bill Glauber and Don Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 20--MADISON -- To Richard L. Trumka, president of the national AFL-CIO, the showdown in Madison between Republican Gov. Scott Walker ...


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mystateline.com - Reported by: Marty KasperSaturday, February 19 2011 For the sixth day in a row public workers in Wisconsin have packed the states capital, demanding that governor Scott Walker give up on eliminatin...


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journalgazette.net - Some 7,500 labor supporters waved signs and shouted “Veto!” as they marched into the Indiana Statehouse to protest a right-to-work bill, the first approved in an industrial state.The year was 1957,...


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34years.tumblr.com - 0 notes February 19, 2011 I’m watching events in Wisconsin with interest. The governor and legislature were elected with, what they believe, are mandates to cut costs and reign in expenses. However...


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wkyc.com - MADISON, Wis. -- Both sides in the protests over union rights in Madison are expected to face a new foe on Sunday: the weather. The National Weather Service is forecasting snow mixed with freezing ...


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Democurmudgeon: "No Deal" Republicans Demand Democrats Return to Wisconsin to Debate #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Democurmudgeon: "No Deal" Republicans Demand Democrats Return to Wisconsin to Debate

"No Deal" Republicans Demand Democrats Return to Wisconsin to Debate

Always remember this week as the single moment the Republicans gave up any future arguments about allowing more time, bipartisanship and an open debate over lawmaking. We knew it wasn't true then, but could anyone have imagined such a blatant abandonment of their phony list of rules? Did they actually try ramming their agenda down our throats?

State Sen. Jon Erpenback had to laugh when he was asked to return to the capital to debate a "no deals" bill. What we are seeing is a shocking display of government power over labor. Sen. Erpenbach appeared on Upfront with Mike Gousha (goo-shay):

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Wis. union head calls on teachers to go to work

Wis. union head calls on teachers to go to work

Wis. union head calls on teachers to go to work

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Sunday, February 20, 2011; 5:03 PM

MADISON, Wis. -- The head of Wisconsin's powerful teachers' union is calling on educators to return to classrooms Monday and Tuesday rather than continue being absent to protest an anti-union bill at the state Capitol.

The protests against a bill that would take away public workers' right to collectively bargain for their benefits and working conditions forced several school districts to shut down last week after teachers called in sick to join demonstrators in Madison.

Mary Bell is president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. She said on Sunday that it's time for her members to return to work. For districts that do not recognize Monday as the President's Day holiday, she said teachers should go to work. Others should report as scheduled on Tuesday.

Bell says teachers will continue opposing the proposal.

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Statement of Support for Union Members in the Public Sector from AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Statement of Support for Union Members in the Public Sector from AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon

Statement of Support for Union Members in the Public Sector from AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon

Posted February 20, 2011

LOS ANGELES (Feb. 20, 2011) - The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists today released the following statement from National President Roberta Reardon supporting the efforts of public sector union members in Wisconsin, Ohio and other parts of the nation who are struggling to protect their basic right to collective bargaining:

On behalf of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO (AFTRA), we extend our solidarity and support to the men and women of the public sector unions of Wisconsin, Ohio and throughout the nation who are standing up for their right to organize and bargain collectively.

America's public sector workers are the backbone our society. Public sector union members educate our children; care for us when we are sick; enforce our laws; sustain our public works; protect our environment; keep our public transportation moving and risk their lives to provide us with relief services.

The attack on public sector union members currently underway in Wisconsin, Ohio and in other parts of our nation is an attack on all union members and the rights of all Americans. Just as AFTRA members have sacrificed at the bargaining table to provide

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Why America's teachers are enraged - CNN.com #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Why America's teachers are enraged - CNN.com

Why America's teachers are enraged

By Diane Ravitch, Special to CNN
February 20, 2011 2:48 p.m. EST
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Diane Ravitch: Teachers are rallying against Wisconsin plan to cut their benefits, union rights
  • She says teachers have been singled out for blame on America's education problems
  • Ravitch: How can we improve schools while cutting funding and demoralizing teachers?

Editor's note: Diane Ravitch is a historian of education and the author of the best seller "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."

(CNN) -- Thousands of teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public sector workers have camped out at the Wisconsin Capitol, protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reduce their take-home pay -- by increasing their contribution to their pension plans and health care benefits -- and restrict their collective bargaining rights.

Republicans control the state Legislature, and initially it seemed certain that Walker's proposal would pass easily. But then the Democrats in the Legislature went into hiding, leaving that body one vote shy of a quorum. As of this writing, the Legislature was at a standstill as state police searched high and low for the missing

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What’s up Wisconsin? | Reflections on Teaching #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

What’s up Wisconsin? | Reflections on Teaching

What’s up Wisconsin?

by alicemercer

180837_10150104479519461_88048989460_6159150_7892280_nBehind some silver-linings, there is some rain, lol. The nice weather has brought about an early bout with spring allergies this season, and I’ve been fighting off getting a secondary infection as part of my holiday “revels”.

With all the education and labor issues this week brought to us by the state of Wisconsin (go Badgers!), I’ve spent more time on Twitter and Facebook, trying to keep up, than on blogging. I see three problems with what is being proposed:

  • Governor Walker and his supporters are being disingenuous about what they are doing. They insist this is about budget concessions. The unions have agreed to discuss the cuts, what the unions and opponents are objecting to are provisions to strip government workers of their right to bargain
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Law Enforcement Association Official Regrets Walker Endorsement | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Law Enforcement Association Official Regrets Walker Endorsement | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

Law Enforcement Association Official Regrets Walker Endorsement

by Donna Jablonski, Feb 20, 2011

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Tracy Fuller, executive board president of the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association, says in a statement on the association’s website that he regrets the endorsement by the Wisconsin Troopers Association of Gov. Scott Walker.

The law enforcement union’s members were not included in Walker’s assault on jobs and collective bargaining rights. (We’re sure the fact the group endorsed Walker is just coincidence. Not.) Fuller also says he regrets “being the recipient of any perceived benefits provided by the governor’s annointing.”

More from Fuller:

I value all of the…agencies around the state. I don’t know how any of us could function without any of us around the state. We all need each other…

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Cary Nelson, "Ohio Is at War" #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac #OHEA

Cary Nelson, "Ohio Is at War"
Ohio Is at War
by Cary Nelson


Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Time: 1 PM
Location: Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH
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From the vantage point of the pancaked fields of Illinois, it is easy to wax nostalgic about Ohio's rolling hills. I spent four years there as an undergraduate and for many years thereafter I returned for several months each year. But my decades of AAUP activism have added a new and more telling element to my fondness for the state: respect for Ohio's brand of faculty activism and union solidarity.

All this was first brought home to me when I spoke at the 25th anniversary of the AAUP collective bargaining chapter at theUniversity of Cincinnati years ago. The chapter's history, celebrated and retold, included the distinctive respect and affection across departments that faculty members forged during their union job actions

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Schools Matter: Naomi Klein and Chris Hayes: The Shock Doctrine in Wisconsin #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Schools Matter: Naomi Klein and Chris Hayes: The Shock Doctrine in Wisconsin

Naomi Klein and Chris Hayes: The Shock Doctrine in Wisconsin

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Representative Gordon Hintz on the "Budget repair bill" #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac


foiz5000 | February 19, 2011 | likes, 27 dislikes

Uploaded under Fair Use. Original audio and video copyright WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network.

It seems some pretty shady tactics are being used to push the bill through. Rep Gordon Hintz provides some insight on the bill's handling from an opposing representative's point of view.

Transcript provided by AffirmationNow.

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A comment from Matt. « Fred Klonsky's blog #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

A comment from Matt. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A comment from Matt.

by Fred Klonsky

We know how this is going to resolve itself. Walker and the rest have become so inured of conservative sophistry that they will willingly snort the Koch-aine of some silly scheme or another. I guess if I really believed that the state of whatever, was actually a business, and should be beholden to only those business principals, than it’s only reasonable to believe that bankrupting the state in order to get out from under it’s financial obligations is in the natural order of things. It’s happened before. I have no worries about the rank and file finding greener pastures in the private sector, but who’s going to pick-up the trash on Tuesday?

-Matt

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Leader Pelosi: I Stand In Solidarity With The Wisconsin Workers | The Gavel #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Leader Pelosi: I Stand In Solidarity With The Wisconsin Workers | The Gavel

Leader Pelosi: I Stand In Solidarity With The Wisconsin Workers

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Karina

Leader Pelosi this afternoon:

As we gather here, in Wisconsin right now we’re watching an extraordinary show of democracy in action. Wisconsin’s workers, teachers and public servants must have a seat at the table to fight for good wages and a safe workplace. I stand in solidarity with the Wisconsin workers fighting for their rights and especially commend all the students and young people leading the charge, again, for fairness and for opportunity in their community.

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SOLIDARITY (AND DEMOCRACY) FOREVER #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

"Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor – those who cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized – do a disservice to the cause of democracy.” --John F. Kennedy
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Workers prepare to rally against 'union-busting' bill | Sandusky Register

Workers prepare to rally against 'union-busting' bill | Sandusky Register

Workers prepare to rally against 'union-busting' bill

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Register photo/ZACH NELSON Union members of UAW local 913 in Sandusky hold up signs while meeting with state representative Dennis Murray Saturday morning. Saturday, February 19, 2011. Saturday, February 19, 2011.
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Former construction worker Tim Dunlap knows he's lucky to have a decent pension that allowed him to retire last November at an age when many of his peers still have to work at least another decade.

But he worries about his youngest son, who also works in construction, and his oldest who teaches in Monroeville. He said both their futures could be at risk if a proposed Senate bill is approved Tuesday to restrict the bargaining power of public employees.

Dunlap, 54, and many of the more than 400 others who crammed into the UAW Local 913 hall Saturday morning to support teachers, safety officers and other government workers fear the measure will eventually extend to the private sector, creating the domino effect of making Ohio an anti-union state.

"You don't realize you're dead until the hearse is at your door," said Dunlap, a member of the Labor International "We just want what's fair for all workers."

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American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style | Dailycensored.com #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style | Dailycensored.com

American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style

by HurricaneDean


Wisconsin legislat 1829969c Getty Images American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style

This week, in the American corporatocracy, we witnessed Wisconsin Republicans, including their newly minted Governor Scott Walker (no relation to my brother), attempt to bust the unions. To do this, Walker and his Republican allies maliciously manufactured a financial crisis.

For decades the lairs on the Right have been scheming to strip workers of their right to collectively bargain with employers. The reason is simple, if you’re a proponent of the corporatocracy, the last thing you would want is an empowered work force. In fact, the real endgame for the folks that believe America should be turned over to a corporate power structure is the elimination of the middle class and the establishment of a vast underclass. Think about it.

For nearly 150 years, the corporatists have subtlety and sometimes

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How many states have collective bargaining with public employees' unions? Look at the Map | Talking Points Memo #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Look at the Map | Talking Points Memo

Look at the Map

Josh Marshall | February 18, 2011, 3:46PM

With the battle going on in Wisconsin, we wanted to ask: How many states have collective bargaining with public employees' unions? How many forbid it? Check out our map. It's pretty revealing. Map after the jump.

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