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For the latest local labor news, click here to visit the BLOG of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. Receive updates via e-mail. Click here to sign up for the e-Activist Network of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO.  We did it! Over one million signatures have been collected to recall Gov. Scott Walker. Later today, these signatures will be handed in to the Government Accountability Board for validation. Together, union members and tens of thousands of grassroots volunteers have collected enough signatures to force special recall elections for Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Sen. Pam Galloway, Sen. Terry Moulton, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald and Sen. Van Wanggaard. Click here to print.  Key Dates Just a reminder that you can no longer send petitions via the PO Box, and that all outstanding petitions need to be handed into local field offices - http://www.wisdems.org/RecallHQ/Offices • Fri, Jan 13TH - Last day to physically drop off petitions to a local field office. Most field offices are throwing a volunteer thank you party on that Friday to thank volunteers and as one final chance to turn in petitions before the offices close. Friday Turn-in Events Petition Turn-in Celebration
 IRMA — About 75 people, many carrying anti-Scott Walker or pro-union signs, protested outside the Lincoln Hills School this afternoon days after an employee was told to leave work for wearing a union T-shirt. Ron McAllister, 49, of Merrill, is a youth counselor at the juvenile detention center and was sent home on Thursday for wearing an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, T-shirt. Read more>>  Petitions to recall Scott Walker, Rebecca Kleefisch and state Senators will be submitted to the Government Accountability Board on Tuesday, January 17. Please take note of the important dates below in order to be sure that your petition is in on time. Click here to print Important Dates •Friday, January 13: The final day to sign and deliver recall petitions to most recall offices and union halls as they will close on that day. Friday, January 13 will also be final day to download recall petitions from www.UnitedWisconsin.com. •Tuesday, January 17: Recall petitions will be submitted to the Government Accountability Board. If you, or someone you know has not had a chance to sign the petition, now is the time to do it! Download petitions here.  Since June 2011 Wisconsin has lost more jobs than any other state. The two “special sessions on jobs” called by Governor Walker have failed to address this jobs crisis. The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO has developed a Jobs Agenda to Rebuild Wisconsin’s Middle Class. This updated version (click here to view or printout WI Jobs Agenda) calls for specific legislation that will truly help Wisconsin’s working families and it includes the specific bills that have been introduced, along with their co-sponsors.  The Municipal Baseball Field on Grand Avenue in Manitowoc was filled with thousands of Wisconsinites today, but there was no game in sight. Instead an estimated 3,500 Wisconsinites stood in solidarity with the Fighting Machinists of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I.A.M.A.W) Local Lodge 516 who are on strike at Manitowoc Cranes. Click here to view Blog
 This report traces the evolution of the American Right over the past few decades. It covers Right Wing ideology, the development of the New Right beginning in the 1960s, its extensive infrastructure and bold strategy. This report also explains how the Right came to successfully exploit single issues and manipulate religious faith to distract and direct middle class and working class voters to support candidates who are a threat to their economic interests. Hopefully, this summary will encourage a broad discussion on how to effectively challenge and defeat the American Right. To view report in PDF format, click here. 
ONLINE: Click here to make donations by PayPal or any major credit card. CHECKS can be made payable to the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Defense Fund, 6333 W. Blue Mound Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53213. On memo line write: STAND WITH WISCONSIN. (Donations are NOT tax deductible). Any support would be greatly appreciated!  The national Republican party has selected Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to respond to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week–sending a clear signal the party is making attacks on working people a top priority in the 2012 elections. Daniels is a key backer of right to work for less (RTW) legislation which state Republican lawmakers, in a stunning display of arrogance, have repeatedly tried to ram through, while thumbing their noses at working Hoosiers–not to mention democracy. Read more >>>  First, multimillionaire Mitt Romney told a group of jobless workers he’s also “unemployed.” Next, Romney thought there was no problem in stating publicly that he likes to “fire people.” Now, the Republican presidential wannabee proved yet again how out of touch he is with mainstream Americans by showing the extent to which he’s a member of the elite 1 percent. In South Carolina yesterday, Romney admitted he pays “around” a 15 percent tax rate, while earning $374,000 a year in speaker’s fees alone—an income he described as “not very much.” Read more >>> Viewers in Austin, Texas, and Pittsburgh are getting the first public look at a new AFL-CIO television spot, “Work Connects Us All: America’s Unions.” The evocative ad features members of many unions, from virtually every industry, and is part of a broad campaign that aims to “fly above the tactics and controversies of the day” and connects with people around the values associated with work, according to AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler. Read more >>>  Great videos capture the Solidarity that is inspiring a national movement! |
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