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Upwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activists Rally Nationwide to Back Wisconsin Workers

February 27th, 2011
Categories: News, Politics

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/27-4

It began outside the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. A few dozen members of the Teaching Assistants Association, the oldest graduate employee union in the world, rallied to object to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining rights. The message from the TAA was blunt: “All public sector workers are under attack. Faculty and staff are under attack. The UW as a whole is under attack. With these extreme acts, Scott Walker is seeking to undermine the labor peace of 50 years…. You need to get active now!”

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