Minnesota union members give Wisconsin recall campaigns a boost

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4951

By Michael Moore (Michael Moore is the editor of the St. Paul Union Advocate)
5 August 2011

ST. PAUL - Last spring Wisconsin’s working families took to the streets to protest an unprecedented legislative attack on union rights. Next Tuesday, voters in six Wisconsin Senate districts will take to the polls, voting in recall elections targeting six Republicans who supported Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip public employees of their right to bargain collectively.

The campaign to replace those six GOP senators with labor-endorsed, Democratic challengers is getting a boost from union activists in Minnesota, who are lending a hand in two districts along the states’ shared border: Senate districts 10 and 32.

In District 10, which includes Hudson, Menomonie and River Falls, labor-endorsed Shelly Moore is seeking to unseat Sen. Sheila Harsdorf.

The Minnesota AFL-CIO will run buses of union volunteers into the district Aug. 8 and 9, assisting get-out-the-vote efforts on Moore’s behalf. And the Minnesota State Council of the Service Employees International Union already is operating phone banks out of its St. Paul headquarters.

“We are calling into Wisconsin Senate District 10 to encourage people to turn out and vote for Shelly Moore and recall Sheila Harsdorf,” said the SEIU’s statewide director, Brian Elliott.

Moore, a teacher from River Falls, is making education funding the primary focus of her campaign, targeting Harsdorf’s vote to slash state funding for schools in her own district by more than $62 million, while increasing funding for Milwaukee private schools by $35 million.

FULL story at link.

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Solidarity!

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[Snoutport]

5. "slash state funding for schools in her own district by more than $62 million"

and gave 35 million to private schools. That says a lot of her agenda for the people of her district....