Saturday, March 3, 2012

Battleground Wisconsin


We earlier expressed our solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin in face of the anti-labor onslaught being launched by the hard right.

            The Badger State meets Tahrir Square
            Wisconsin… and the Vatican

This week’s New Yorker has an excellent article bringing the story up to date:

The author is surprisingly even-handed about Governor Walker personally, according him some props;  but overall the portrait of the fat-cat attack  is devastating.

[Update 11 III 12] Good idea:
Many unions areincreasingly financing their own efforts instead of writing large checks to theDemocratic Party 


[Update Jan 2017]
Union membership in Wisconsin down nearly 40 percent since 2011 law that sparked protests

 

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