Posted on 02/20/2011 10:53:11 AM PST by apillar
SEIU brothers and sisters,
As I write, 30,000 people are gathered outside of the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin speaking out against Republican Governor Scott Walker's attempt to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Almost 14,000 of our SEIU brothers and sisters stand to lose their rights if Governor Walker gets his way: 9,000 nurses and nursing home staff, along with about 5,000 home care workers.
They've been out there among the demonstrators all week.
We've set up a page on our website that allows you to send a message of support to our SEIU family and everyone else fighting for their rights outside the Capitol.
Share your well-wishes for the working families in Wisconsin and we'll make sure they receive them this weekend.
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
While the collective bargaining rights of our members are at stake, it's important to note that the conversation taking place is about more than that alone. When Scott Walker manufactured this crisis by giving tax cuts to corporations and his special interest friends last month, it escalated a state legislative debate into a struggle for economic justice with large corporations not paying their fair share to get Americans back to work.
When you see the news of our members in Wisconsin on the television and online, those are the things they're fighting for.
Send a message to your SEIU brothers and sisters who have been outside the Capitol all week and we'll make sure they receive it.
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
Scott Walker claims this is about saving money, but President Obama said it best: this is an "assault on unions."
But it's not just union members at risk; it's the services these members provide-whether that be as teachers, public safety personnel or home health care workers.
I'll be in touch soon with updates from Wisconsin and other states where working families are under attack from a new crop of Republican governors.
In solidarity,
Mary Kay Henry
President, SEIU
PS - Republicans are trying to take away workers' rights in at least ten states. But if we stop them in Wisconsin, we'll make a strong statement that America will not tolerate any more Republican attacks on the middle class. Stand with workers in Wisconsin now:
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
>>We’ve set up a page on our website that allows you to send a message of support to our SEIU family and everyone else fighting for their rights outside the Capitol.
Share your well-wishes for the working families in Wisconsin and we’ll make sure they receive them this weekend.
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin<<
THERE YA GO FREEPERS, SEND YOUR “BEST WISHES”...
I’d like to see Mary Kay Henry’s ass thrown in jail. Damn thug.
I just told them to get their hands out of the taxpayers’ pockets. My legs will probably get broken.
Get back to work you lazy, ungrateful, no good mother %#$@$^#&@%#@ers!
I wonder how many of these “home care workers” etc are illegal aliens
How much does Mary Kay Henry make?
“...with large corporations not paying their fair share to get Americans back to work.”
Can someone please diagram this sentence for clarity ?
If “large corporations” paid more (in taxes, blood, union dues—it doesn’t say what more they’re not paying) how many “Americans (would go) back to work ?”
Are you some kinda RAT TROLL? HMMMMM?
Minor problem, we have to work.
No no no. As Sun Tzu never actually said: “When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of his way.”
Passing "Right to Work" legislation would not require the Dem senators in order to make quorum.
Neither would Vermont-style CCW, "Make my Day", requiring photo-ID to vote, and requiring a long-form birth certificate in order to get on the Presidential ballot.
Republicans there need to stop using the absent Dems as an excuse to do nothing.
yeah, yeah, yeah, And women, persons of color and members of the LGBT community will be hardest hit.
I see this as just away for SEIU to get their facebook, email and twitter lists updated.
And the GOP of course is NOT doing this..talk about STUPID!
We should be doing the same thing...we are soooooo still unorganized and behind on the web connections.
Sounds like perfect union and Dem logic to me. If corporations have greater expenses, more people will have jobs right ??
“My legs will probably get broken.”
What,you don’t own a gun?
I hate unions, I just hate em.
You’re right...
Freepers, change your ip address if possible and use the e-mail of your nearest Dem senator in your state.
Some of us are out of work and would love to have been bussed up there to add to the Tea Party numbers.
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