Action in Hudson, WI

[Jackpine Radical]

This is from a local, rural, neighbor-to-neighbor, normally nonpolitical email list. I think this is the first overtly political thing I've ever seen on it.


"Government employees are planning a protest Saturday in Hudson, Wis., in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's bill to change their benefits and union powers.

The protest is scheduled for 10 a.m. to sundown on the Carmichael Road bridge over Interstate 94.

"We are calling on all friends and family and other supporters to come on out," said an executive board member with AFSCME Wisconsin Council 40.

"I've been getting calls all morning,"... "I'd like to think we'd have at least a couple hundred people there."

Walker's bill calls for most public employees to make half their pension contributions and pay more toward their health insurance. It also limits the power of their unions, partly by restricting collective bargaining.

Walker says the purpose of the bill is to fix the state's budget crisis. Some union leaders in western Wisconsin question what collective bargaining has to do with the state budget and say the legislation is a union-busting bill." - from Pionner Press online.

[Botany]

1. Go Hudson

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The lovely, wild St. Croix river.

[midnight]

3. What does collective bargaining have to do with the state budget... Smart question.....

[Tx4obama]

4. You should email him/her back and mention that Gov Walker gave....

Wisconsin corporations and businesses a $140 MILLION tax cut two weeks ago.
If he/she hadn't heard then he/she can get the word out ;)

[Berserker]

5. I will

Be there. SOLIDARITY

[annm4peace]

6. i'll be there. going in the morning.. and I'm not in a Union

i'm a worker and I'm lower middle class. I support those in WI. I would love to be with those in Madison but appreciate I join those in Hudson.