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The Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO doesn’t just want Iowans to stand up for the rights of Wisconsin workers, it wants them to stand up for workers right here at home, and is planning a Tuesday rally in Des Moines.
Wisconsin is not the only place where working families are under attack. Across this nation, the lives and livelihoods of working families are being attacked systematically by right wing fanatics bent on crippling or destroying the trade union movement in America.
Show your support for Wisconsin workers and all workers by standing with us at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
The “We Are One” rally is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 1 p.m. on the west steps of the Iowa Capitol.
The Iowa rally will come after days of protests in Madison, Wisc. by public employees and their supporters. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a bill that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for union members.
The rally also follows a discredited statement by a spokesman for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad that falsely portrayed public workers as earning far more than their private sector counterparts. The statement was offered as justification of why Branstad plans to draw both his state salary and state pension while serving as governor.
One of Branstad’s first acts upon being sworn in as governor for a fifth term was to make good on a campaign promise to rescind former Gov. Chet Culver’s executive order that encouraged Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), which at least one taxpayer watchdog group says inevitably lead to lower project costs. Branstad’s strict position on PLAs — that no government entities should use them — has prompted a battle with Cedar Rapids officials (led by former Iowa House Speaker Ron Corbett), who had planned to use such an agreement in a $75 million convention complex project.
In addition, earlier this week, an Iowa House subcommittee passed a bill that would weaken the bargaining position of public employee unions in the Hawkeye State.
The Iowa Federation of Labor represents more than 50,000 members of 520 unions throughout Iowa.
5 Comments
Comment posted February 19, 2011 @ 11:11 pm
Anyone who is working or middle-class who thinks this is a bad idea is a fool. Listening to right-wing noise about the rich and corporations giving a crap about your situation doesn’t know the half of it.
Fox noise will continue to bulls**t you into thinking that acting against your best interest is IN your best interest. Glenn Beck calls liberals “useful idiots.”
So what does getting screwed by the rich and powerful you would support make you?
Comment posted February 22, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
monkey99 is obviously from the left coast. he sounds frustrated and uset, so what does he do, he slams fox news, the only place you can get the truth. You people on the left know how to do is spew out hate speech and atack people personally. There’s only one thing wrong with socialism, sooner or later you run out of spending other people’s money.
Get a life
Comment posted February 22, 2011 @ 5:06 pm
Who said anything about socialism?
Fox is truth? What would you know about truth, watching the only cable channel who bulls**ts you all day long? Ever spent any time verifying what you see there?
I didn’t think so.
What’s it like, being a useful idiot?
Comment posted March 2, 2011 @ 8:42 pm
Speaking as someone who was there the only hate message was the few tea baggers yelling through bullhorns during the prayer and brandishing guns. The tea-party has lost it way. Sarah Palin said the unions were the backbone of america. Follow her words instead of corporate greed mongers.
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