Governor Walker’s Disastrous Record
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker knew better than to run his gubernatorial campaign on a platform based on decimiating jobs in Wisconsin.
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Forget super PACs. A modest proposal for legalizing bribery
Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post
Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons
"As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact."
Top 1% Shower Walker With Cash, but Recall and `Walkergate’ Loom
"If one more dime gets added to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s already-overflowing campaign war chest, it may cause the Governor's Mansion in Madison to collapse under its weight"
Walker, ALEC take war on workers national
Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Gov. John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by 61 percent to 39 percent in a referendum, the nation’s primary proponent of the war on worker rights opened a new front.
Nurses flex their political muscle in Sacramento and across California
An article from the Sacramento Bee
The privatization trap
Mike Konczal: "From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability"
Pensions Aren’t the Problem for State Budgets
An editorial from AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders:
“Today’s numbers make it clear that union jobs are critical to a strong economy”
New numbers from the department of Labor
Walter Johnson did what needed to be done
Walter Johnson was everything a labor leader should be – a dedicated, unflinching, champion of working people and their unions.
1,000,000 Singatures Collected to Recall Scott Walker!
A major victory for public employees and working people everywhere, one million signatures were collected to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
Growing Support for Overturning Citizens United
More than 60 organizations have now joined the effort to combat the anti-democratic corporate and special interest spending in our elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, by supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn that decision.
Obama Recess Appointments a Victory For Workers
CWA applauded President Obama's decision this week to recess appoint three new members to the National Labor Relations Board, allowing cases involving violations of workers' organizing and bargaining rights to move forward.
Lawmakers to focus on children’s welfare in upcoming session
CWA in Missouri is supporting legislation that would help foster care providers get the resources they need.
Nurses Say Private Equity Firm Starving Massachusetts Hospitals
Nurses sang sour carols today to the private equity firm they say is starving Massachusetts hospitals and pitting workers against each other.
99% March On K Street To Take Back The Capitol From The 1%
This week Take Back the Capitol brought unemployed people and others to Washington to confront their members of Congress and the lobbyists on "K Street" that they work for, to demand a change.
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements
When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And
Why We Must “Take Back The Capitol”
From Isaiah Poole at CAF
The Winter of Our Occupation
A new post by Micheal Moore on the Occupy movement
How Occupy stopped the supercommittee
Since the supercommittee's real agenda was to bypass Congress and cut social security, let's give thanks for the 99%
