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Assembly Passes RTW Bill, People’s Fight Back Goes On
![Feb. 28, 2015 state capitol in Madison [http://jennapope.com/]](https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jenna_pope_madison_2-28-15.jpg)
Feb. 28, 2015 state capitol in Madison [http://jennapope.com/]
Ms. Nina Simone Live: Backlash Blues
Tom Morello – Wisconsin Protests – Speech and Union Song – Madison, WI 2-21-11
Fight Back Against Right-To-Work (For Less)!
Check here for frequent updates, events and coverage of the resistance:https://www.facebook.com/wisaflcio and https://www.facebook.com/defeatrighttowork and #wiunion #WrongForWI
Feb. 28, 2015 state capitol in Madison [http://jennapope.com/]
AB Fed of Labor. This is what solidarity looks like! Alberta’s unions stand with #WIUnion workers against #RightToWork. #stopRTW
Madison, March 5: Shut Down Right-To-Work (For Less)!
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 is expected to reach the State Assembly. We are calling on every supporter of workers rights to join the protest in the capitol rotunda all day Thursday.
Greedy Wall Street bankers never give up and neither will we! Pack the Capitol rotunda!
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Join workers, faith leaders and community members for a rally as we stand together in solidarity to oppose AB61 as the Right to Work bill heads to the Assembly floor for a vote.Make your voice heard. Participate in democracy and bear witness to the debate over so-called Right to Work legislation.Right to Work is an attack on all Wisconsin families. Right to Work states see lower wages, fewer benefits and no new job creation.
Stand in solidarity. Make your voice heard. See you Thursday!
Stand in solidarity. Make your voice heard. See you Thursday!
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Check here for frequent updates, events and coverage of the resistance:https://www.facebook.com/wisaflcio and https://www.facebook.com/defeatrighttowork
Madison, March 11: 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 make. Are we going to fight each other for breadcrumbs? OR ARE WE GOING TO JOIN TOGETHER AND FIGHT BACK?
We say it’s time to fight back!
On March 11, Wisconsin will join a national day of action to take to the streets, parks, and state capitols to send a clear message right in our states: Our democracy and our planet do NOT belong to the few. They belong to we the people.
Transportation provided from MKE.
More details coming soon! But please save the date for this showdown you won’t want to miss!
The Racist Roots of ‘right to work’ Laws
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 Congress successfully passed Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, enshrining the right of states to pass laws that allow workers to receive union benefits without joining a union.
Civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who saw an alliance with labor as crucial to advancing civil rights as well as economic justice for all workers, spoke out against right-to-work laws; this 1961 statement by King was widely circulated this week during Michigan’s labor battles:
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights.
March 4 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 government should represent the people, not corporate campaign funders, join us at NOON WEDNESDAY to protest Walker and WMC.Invite your friends and allies and spread the word!
UW-Green Bay, March 4: 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 we are to even stand a chance. Please join us! EVERYBODY from the community is welcome!! Click on the link below to join our group to stay in the loop! Just request to be invited–you will be accepted.We will discuss how students can get active with others in the community and make their voices heard. We are also organizing letter-writing and phone-banking campaigns. We have flyers, contact info, and templates for postcards that people can mail in to their representatives. Please contact Paul Ahrens for more info!
Join the Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UWStudentsAgainstCuts/
![Brandi Grayson of the Young Gifted and Black coalition, speaking to hundreds of protesters at the state capitol in Madison Feb. 14, 2015. Grayson linked the struggles of the the Black Lives Matter movement and the fights to fully fund public education characterizing both as state violence on the people. [Photo: Joe Brusky]](https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brandi_grayson_madison_2-14-15.jpg)
Brandi Grayson of the Young Gifted and Black coalition, speaking to hundreds of protesters at the state capitol in Madison Feb. 14, 2015. Grayson linked the struggles of the the Black Lives Matter movement and the fights to fully fund public education [Photo: Joe Brusky]
