Month: April 2016

130th ANNIVERSARY OF BAY VIEW MASSACRE TO BE HELD MAY 1 SHOWING RE-ENACTMENT OF 1886 EVENT Again, there’ll be larger-than-life-sized puppets helping to re-enact Wisconsin’s historic Bay View Tragedy that occurred May 5, 1886 when the State Militia killed seven persons demonstrating for the eight-hour day. The 130th Anniversary Commemoration  of the Bay View Tragedy […]

CWA Release: http://bit.ly/1WokMqO Monday, April 11, 2016 After trying for ten months to reach a fair contract, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Virginia will go on strike at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13 if a fair agreement is not reached by then. The Verizon strike will be by far the largest work […]

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/ From the WI AFL-CIO: Wisconsin is no longer a Right to Work state! Wisconsin workers’ rights are being restored with a circuit court ruling that Gov. Walker’s anti-union Right to Work law is unconstitutional. On Friday, April 8, 2016, the court put a needed check on Scott Walker’s attacks on working families by ruling […]

From the Facebook group description, http://bit.ly/1Q3fFoD The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is one of the largest right-wing anti-worker, racist think tanks in the world. The Foundation is an integral part of Wall Street’s right-wing foundation network that has as its goal to wipe out all legal, social and other barriers to making profits by capitalists. This […]

Dontre Day! We are already in the early stages of planning #DontreDay on Saturday, April 30, 2016. We plan on having entertainment for the entire family along with other community organizations and supporters to help make REMEMBERING DONTRE BIG! If you’re interested in helping to make this event BIG please email us at thecoalitionforjustice@gmail.com. We […]

http://appalachianworkersalliance.weebly.com/blog The Appalachian Workers Alliance joins the families of the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in their outrage over the short sentence of one year in prison received by Don Blankenship, the Massey Energy coal boss. Blankenship was convicted for his role in a “conspiracy to willfully […]