With Republican attacks on working people underway now in all 50 states, keeping track of the latest news is a challenge. Below are several key web pages that have provided invaluable help as working people seek information on the rapidly changing situation.
Monday's mass demonstrations against the radical attacks of anti-labor Republicans and big business were even bigger than predicted. More than 1,200 mass rallies or pickets were held in all 50 states, with several hundred thousand working people participating.
All UE members and supporters are reminded to make final plans for your participation in the We Are One actions this coming Monday, April 4th. While the radical Republican attacks on working people have been stalled or stopped in several states the attacks continue in others. The war on workers has shifted into high gear in Ohio, with the passage of SB5 now a reality. All indications are pointing to a massive upsurge underway against these corrupt and disgraceful attacks on working people.
Madison, Wisconsin
Working people across the country continue to expand the mobilizations to stop the gang-up attacks of big business, the Republican Party, and the corporate news media. UE members have joined the battle in more than 10 states with more to follow. Republican politicians in 25 states have launched radical attacks on the jobs, wages, pensions, health care benefits, and labor rights of millions of working people. Their stated go
As you’ve probably heard, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Senate has done a sneaky end run around state law, and around its own rules, to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting bill with no Democrats present. A few days ago Ohio’s State Senate passed SB 5, a similar anti-union bill, by just one vote. Workers are fighting for their rights in Indiana, Iowa and many other states. Union members and union supporters around the country are mobilizing in ever-growing numbers to defend collective bargaining and basic workers’ rights.
Public employee bargaining rights are under attack in several states, and much of the national attention has focused on the dramatic events in Wisconsin, where we’ve seen rallies as large as 100,000 people and more, a weeks-long occupations of the capitol building for weeks, state senate Democrats deny Republicans a quorum, and most recently, an end run by Republicans around the law to ram through their union-busting bill. UE members from around Wisconsin and the Midwest have journeyed to Madison battle.
The massive attacks launched against working people by Republican lawmakers all across the country are now entering their 4th full week.
Vermont House of Representatives member Bob South -- who is also a worker at Fairbanks Scales in St. Johnsbury and longtime president of UE Local 234 -- recently went into action against the Republican-led assault on working people now being launched in many state legislatures.
Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio