http://theuptake.org/More than 50,000 demonstrators, teachers, tradesmen and public sector employees are expected to converge on the Wisconsin State Capitol today from all over the Midwest — in an Egypt-like effort to stop upstart Republican Governor Scott Walker’s effort to gut organized labor. Wisconsin was the first state in the union where public-sector employees received collective bargaining rights, in 1959.
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Students testify at a Wisconsin legislative hearing about why Senate File 11, an anti-union measure, should not be passed. The hearing have been going on round the clock for more than 90 hours so the state of Wisconsin is forced to keep the Capitol building in Madison open to protesters.
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A protester named Andrew talks about why the right to organize is important… more important that giving back benefits and pay.
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