March 9, 2011 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber's missing Democrats and approved an...

Dear Colleagues, Hopefully you have been following the State budget discussions closely, as the outcome will directly affect all of us, perhaps catastrophically, if the Governor's tax extension proposal does not make it to the ballot for a vote in June. Governor...

1)  Vote on the new Resource Allocation Formula ratification.  Ballots were mailed to your home at the end of last week.  Please ensure you return your self-mailing postcard ballot no later than March 5th.  For more information, visit www.tinyurl.com/2011RAF 2) Attend...

Richard Wolff and Max Fraad Wolff guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 January 2011 13.00 GMT If we permit public-sector workers to be scapegoated for state and city budget crises, we all stand to lose. Several hundred Camden, New Jersey firefighters and police officers were...

By PAUL KRUGMAN Here’s a thought: maybe Madison, Wis., isn’t Cairo after all. Maybe it’s Baghdad — specifically, Baghdad in 2003, when the Bush administration put Iraq under the rule of officials chosen for loyalty and political reliability rather than experience and...

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...

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 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...

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 Recession....

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...