Today, Wisconsin working family voters are taking another step to take back their government from Gov. Scott Walker's (R) radical, anti-family, anti-community, pro-Koch Brothers agenda. And they have to defeat a Republican dirty trick to do it.
After the state Senate in March rammed through Walker's bill that eliminates collective bargaining rights for public employees, working families mobilized to recall six of the Republican lawmakers. A gain of three seats would break Walker's stranglehold on the Senate.
Today, voters in six state senate districts will choose Democratic opponents for half a dozen Republican-held seats. But these primary elections have been marred by Walker supporters who recruited fake candidates to run in the elections in an attempt to sow confusion among voters. The winners of today's elections will face the six Republicans in an Aug. 9 general election.
Pizza party or fair pay? Check out the AFL-CIO/Laughing Liberally videos to see why working people need collective bargaining to get the pie, not the crust.
Newly elected Republican legislators and governors are pushing legislation to cut good jobs, lower wages, threaten job safety and weaken unions.
Hundreds of thousands of union members and our allies took part in more than 1,000 We Are One actions to stand in solidarity with embattled workers in the states.
