President Obama, the Jobs Crisis and Corporate America’s Game Plan

By Jack Rasmus On February 4, the Labor Department released its latest jobs report for the month of January. It showed a deep decline in net jobs created—only 36,000 last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This was about a third of the average 90,000 jobs created in each of the two [...]

More than 1500 join in Sacramento Capitol in second rally.

by Duane Campbell Over 1500  union members and supporters rallied again  at the State Capitol in Sacramento  on Feb.26,  called by Move- on.com,  Jobs with Justice, and organized by local labor activists  to support the working people in Wisconsin in their struggle to defend their  union rights.  Speakers described the financial crisis that began  2007  [...]

Largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Madison

Good speech by Jesse Jackson at the rally.  Low quality video. http://sacramentopa.blogspot.com/2011/02/rev-jesse-jackson-addresses-madison.html

2,000 Attend Chicago Rally to Support Wisconsin workers

by Bob Roman Twenty minutes before the Saturday Noon beginning of the rally in solidarity with Wisconsin workers, a few hundred people had already gathered in the plaza in front of the Thompson Center within the Loop in downtown Chicago. I had just arrived in a clot of a dozen or so off a CTA [...]

Atlantans Rally in Support of Public Workers

by Milt Tambor The hundreds of signs resounded with the same message. Stop the war on workers. On Wednesday, February 23, nearly 1,000 union members, workers and community activists gathered together from 4pm to 6pm at Atlanta’s State Capitol. The chants rang out: fired up ready to go; kill the bill; the people united will [...]

This is What Democracy Looks Like!

Cecily McMillan sent us this video of a rally she organized at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, in support of public workers under attack. A union speaker announces that he is now proud to call students “my brothers and sisters.”

Boston to Wisconsin to Sacramento!

by David Duhalde and David Knuttenen In Boston on Tuesday 22 February, DSAers joined over a thousand union members and supporters demonstrating outside the statehouse in solidarity with Wisconsin workers. Wisconsin has been in the forefront of our minds, as tens of thousands of people have poured into the streets to resist the Republican governor’s attempt to [...]

Students and Workers call for action March 2nd!

by Chris Hicks This week United States Student Association and Jobs with Justice were excited to announce SLAP’s national Day of Action on March 2nd as a part of the Where’s the Funding? campaign. Across the country students and workers are uniting in the fight against attacks to the public sector as conservative politicians push [...]

Thousands Take Stand in Sacramento for Workers’ Rights in Wisconsin

By Steve Smith, California Labor Federation When Wisconsin’s new right-wing Governor decided to make it his personal mission to eliminate the rights of teachers, nurses, bus drivers and other public servants, he probably thought it would be a cakewalk. After all, Gov. Scott Walker has a Republican-controlled legislature that is on board with his radical [...]

Labor Leaders Say Wisconsin Signals ‘New Era of Labor Militancy’

By Mike Elk MADISON, WIS.—In the past, labor leaders have been hesitant to call militant actions in part because they’re afraid they won’t have the support and energy of union members. But after the massive outpouring of rank and file support in Wisconsin during the last eight days—triggered by proposed GOP legislation that would gut [...]