Social Justice, Economic Fairness Belong in All Workplaces

An overflow crowd of union members and working-class Americans packed the lobby of United Steelworker headquarters and into the streets in a rally to show solidarity with state employees in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio and other states where freedom to organize and bargain collectively has come under attack in recent weeks.

“The recent wave of attacks on public employees is not the fault of the workers but the result of giving enormous tax breaks to the rich and the ultra-rich,” said USW International President Leo W. Gerard. “Public sector unions are being vilified, used as the scapegoats as  budget shortfalls are, pure and simple, being used as political fodder to turn Americans against organized labor,” he said ... more