Public Workers

1,000 in Olympia: Put people first, close tax loopholes

March 21, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

The legislature is grappling with budget deficits estimated at $5.1 billion, yet ballot initiatives pushed through by Republican extremists last November block every measure to increase revenues.

Public service union leader urges Boehner to cool violent rhetoric

March 18, 2011 By John Wojcik

AFSCME president Gerald McEntee has called upon the House Speaker John Boehner to "stop using violent metaphors and demonizing public employees."

Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye

March 16, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."

Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin

March 15, 2011 By Scott Marshall

March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.

Your mailman talks about St. Patrick’s Day and workers who vote Republican

March 11, 2011 By John Dick

St. Patrick's Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The key to our dismal conditions then was this: we had no collective bargaining rights.