Union Solidarity Rally for Wisconsin Workers

ALBANY, NY (02/18/2011)(readMedia)-- In a show of support for union brothers and sisters in Wisconsin who are fighting to keep their collective bargaining rights, CSEA will join with the unions of the Capital District Area Labor Federation for a Solidarity Rally today at 4 p.m. in front of the union's headquarters at 143 Washington Ave., Albany.

"Wisconsin's newly elected governor is waging one of the most vicious attacks on working people our nation has seen in generations," said CSEA President Danny Donohue.The rally is intended to show solidarity with tens of thousands of middle class working people who have taken to the streets and statehouse in Madison, Wisconsin to protest legislation that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for state and local public employees there."

'We are talking about a fundamental right to bargain fairly and in good faith," Donohue said. "This is a proposal to make public service workers second-class citizens without a voice – it's an assault on American values and must stop here!"

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