State workers union plans April 21 rally

[struggle4progress]

By Matt Pommer
March 25, 2005

The largest state employees union is planning a major rally in Madison next month to focus on the value of public services and to protest several unsettled contracts as well as what they call a "meat ax" approach to budgeting.


Wisconsin State Employee Union members said the rally, scheduled for April 21, will follow emergency meetings through early April in support of their bargaining efforts. WSEU executive director Marty Beil stressed, though, that those meetings would not involve strike votes.

"We want elected officials and the taxpayers to understand in a very visible way that state employees - public employees - are real workers who deserve adequate wages, affordable secure benefits, security in employment and freedom from contracting out," said Beil in the letter.

"We didn't create or cause structural deficits and we sure as hell aren't going to pay for them," added Beil. People coming to Madison for the rally should be prepared to speak loudly and clearly "about who you are, what you do and how angry and frustrated you are," wrote Beil. <snip>

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=33539&ntpid=2

[gizmo1979]

1. Good for them

They are always taken for granted.These are the poor souls that are being squashed for smaller gov.About time they put a face to the jobs!