City Union Leaders Blast Wisconsin Labor Bill
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Members of the city's largest public employees union, DC 37, gathered outside City Hall Wednesday to urge lawmakers to protect the working class.
This, as outrage over anti-union measures has spread to Indiana where house Democrats have also fled the state to block a labor bill.
Thirty-five members of Indiana's Democratic caucus left the state, just as Democrats from Wisconsin did last week to block a Republican-backed labor bill.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is promising massive layoffs over the next two years if Democrats don't show up to vote on a bill that would cut benefits and strip collective bargaining rights from state workers.
"In Madison, we are turning out by the tens of thousands, the Capitol building is packed elbow to elbow with service workers, nurses, building trades, teachers, foundry workers and firefighters. With your help and the support of our union brothers and sisters across this great country, we will win this good fight," said Wisconsin Union Member Mark Maierle.
"This isn't a discussion about how to keep a pension system sustainable, this is a governor standing up and engaging in union busting there is no other word for it," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
New York has nearly two million public and private unionized workers -- the second highest in the country.