Month: March 2015

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Fill the Capitol! Shut Down “Right to Work!” All out to defend worker’s rights! Fill the capitol and shut down “right to work!” Fill the capitol all day Thursday, March 5! Shut down “right to work!” 8am: Capitol opens 12pm: AFL-CIO Rally begins 1pm: Assembly floor session begins This Thursday, “Right to work” for less […]

RECLAIM OUR STATE! Day of action in Madison! Across the country, families are standing up and reclaiming their stake in government. Politicians are rigging the system for big corporations and the very wealthy while our families are struggling to get by. This has gone on for too long. As Wisconsinites, we have a choice to […]

http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/12/the-racist-roots-of-right-to-work-laws.html While working to pass right-to-work legislation in Texas, Muse and the Association took their efforts to Arkansas and Florida, where a similar message equating union growth with race-mixing and communism led to the passage of the nation’s first right-to-work laws in 1944. In all, 14 states passed such legislation by 1947, when conservatives in […]

Protest “Right to Work” at Walker’s report to WMC lobbyists Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, 1 John Nolen Dr., Madison On Wednesday March 4, Scott Walker will speak at Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s Business Day – the annual meeting of Wisconsin’s most powerful corporate lobbyist group and its sponsored politicians.If you believe that our […]

Rally to Invest in Our Schools–Mar. 4 @ 4 This is the big day! Our goal is to get all of the UW campuses to have a day-of-action on the same day to illustrate solidarity in opposition to the proposed $300 million cuts to the UW System. We must act as a united body if […]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/p9ud65u 12 Noon, Spaights Plaza, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee Rally against Walker’s anti-union, anti-education agenda! Sponsored by: Defeat “Right to Work” in Wisconsin — ALSO: #SaveOurUW Coalition Meeting 3:30 – 5:30 p.m., March 4, UW-Milwaukee Student Union Room 280 To coordinate protests and other actions in opposition to the budget cuts/public authority. If […]