by realize | Feb 26, 2011 | Hot Topics
What your AFT Guild, Local 1931 is doing to support the Wisconsin workers and the 14 courageous Democratic Senators who have prevented the stripping of collective bargaining rights for public sector employees: 1) We wrote to each of the 14 Democratic Senators (click...
by realize | Feb 22, 2011 | Hot Topics
February 22, 2011 Like a wind-whipped brush fire, the mass union protests that began in Madison, Wis., last week have spread to the capitals of Ohio and Indiana where Republican lawmakers also are trying to cripple the bargaining power of unions — and ultimately...
by realize | Feb 21, 2011 | Hot Topics
By PAUL KRUGMAN Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin’s new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday — Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt...
by realize | Feb 16, 2011 | Hot Topics
Annalyn Censky, staff reporter, On Wednesday February 16, 2011, 4:30 pm EST Are you better off than your parents? Probably not if you’re in the middle class. Incomes for 90% of Americans have been stuck in neutral, and it’s not just because of the Great...
by realize | Feb 12, 2011 | Hot Topics
Colleagues, AFT Local 1931’s Jim Miller, our VP of Political Action/Community Outreach, was nominated to be an AFT Everyday Hero and he made it into the finals! Please click on the link on the bottom of this email to vote for him. Voting goes from...
