Tag: solidarity
Rally for Manitowoc Cranes Workers this Saturday
From my email inbox comes news of a rally this weekend to show solidarity with the striking workers at Manitowoc Cranes. Brothers and Sisters, This Saturday, December 10 at the Municipal Baseball Field at 2200 Grand Ave, Manitowoc, WI 54220 there will be a solidarity rally to support the striking…
Blogging Blue is being boycotted!
Oh noes! Blogging Blue is being boycotted by “Segway” Jeremy Ryan! In announcing his boycott of Blogging Blue, Ryan cited a recent entry of mine criticizing the Defending Wisconsin PAC, which Ryan runs, for using a non-union print shop for his PAC’s printing needs. Apparently Jeremy Ryan has skin as…
Support unions? Then use a union print shop!
I’ve got a bone to pick with the Defending Wisconsin Political Action Committee (PAC), a group headed by “Segway” Jeremy Ryan. The Defending Wisconsin PAC is one of the myriad of political action committees that sprouted up here in Wisconsin in the aftermath of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s assault on…
It’s the last weekend before most of the recall elections…
…and hopefully this video will help re-energize you for the home stretch.
Remember this guy???
This is the guy I voted for in 2008…. Anyone know what happened to that guy? I sure don’t.
Buy a poster, support the recall efforts
From Karen Bassler via my email inbox comes word of a poster of posters (protest signs people have posted in their windows and front doors) that Karen is selling to raise funds to support the effort already underway to prepare for a recall against Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Lt….
Biden to Teamsters: If you vote Republican, “you’re on your own, Jack!”
Speaking to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention in Las Vegas on July 1, Vice President Joe Biden went off his prepared remarks to address efforts by Republicans to weaken labor unions across the country. “And don’t any of you, by the way, any of you guys vote Republican,” the…
Lee Camp: “Without Unions America Would Red, White, & Blow!”
Watch as comedian Lee Camp explains what he thinks America would be like without labor unions.
Negotiatin’ Like It’s 1999
The fine folks at Vaguely Qualified Productions & Laughing Liberally teamed up with AFL-CIO to create a new web series that uses comedy to talk about collective bargaining, and here’s what negotiating for better wages, benefits, and working conditions would be like if Republicans across America had their way.
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