Labor & Employment Law

You Can Support Wisconsin Senators Who Are Standing with Workers

By Mike Hall

Yesterday, the 14 Democratic members of the Wisconsin state Senate left the chamber to prevent Gov. Scott Walker (R) from railroading through his budget measure that would destroy middle-class jobs and eliminate collective bargaining rights for public service workers.

If you?d like to support the 14 brave Democratic senators who stopped the  vote on Walker?s bill with a contribution of any size, you can do that here.

If you make a contribution, be sure to go to the ?We Are One? Facebook page here and tell people you pitched in and where to donate.

Says state Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D):

Our job, and the role of the legislature, is to expand rights, not deny them.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).