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We Are Wisconsin

We Are Wisconsin

More than 60,000 AFSCME members, labor activists and progressive allies gather at the Wisconsin State Capitol to officially kick off the recall of Gov. Scott Walker on March 10 (Photo: Kelly Steele / We Are Wisconsin)

There were six primary elections held yesterday to determine who will face Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Senate Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and three other anti-worker state senators in recall elections on June 5. AFSCME members are unified in their support for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, lieutenant governor candidate Mahlon Mitchell and all four pro-worker state senate candidates heading into the June recall. Read the rest of this entry »

Workers honor Cesar Chavez on birthday

Navy to christen ship for labor leader in May
by Jeanette Steele, March 31 2012, UT San Diego

Photo credit, UT San Diego.
Left; Iggy Ponce De Leon marched with his portrait of Cesar Chavez down Harbor Drive. “Today is a very grateful day for me, Cesar Chavez really started the union movement,” said Ponce De Leon, a union grocery store clerk with UFCW. — John Gastaldo Read the rest of this entry »

Coalition submits 226,000 signatures for citizens’ veto of “Local Dictators” law

Coalition submits 226,000 signatures for citizens’ veto of “Local Dictators” law

Members of AFSCME Council 25 in Detroit deliver petitions for a ballot initiative to repeal a law allowing unelected “emergency managers” to nullify collective bargaining agreements. (Photo: Ben Needham)