7 Green Bay Packers sign letter criticizing Wisconsin Gov. Walker

[underpants]

The letter was signed by Curtis Fuller, Chris Jackie, Charles Jordan, Bob Long, Steve Okoniewski, Brady Poppinga and Jason Spitz.

The statements reads: "We know that it is teamwork on and off the field that makes the Packers and Wisconsin great. As a publicly owned team we wouldn't have been able to win the Super Bowl without the support of our fans.

"It is the same dedication of our public workers every day that makes Wisconsin run. They are the teachers, nurses and child care workers who take care of us and our families. But now in an unprecedented political attack Governor Walker is trying to take away their right to have a voice and bargain at work.

"The right to negotiate wages and benefits is a fundamental underpinning of our middle class. When workers join together it serves as a check on corporate power and helps ALL workers by raising community standards. Wisconsin's long standing tradition of allowing public sector workers to have a voice on the job has worked for the state since the 1930s. It has created greater consistency in the relationship between labor and management and a shared approach to public work.

"These public workers are Wisconsin's champions every single day and we urge the Governor and the State Legislature to not take away their rights."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/116231984.html

Green Bay Packers Criticize WI Gov: ‘Right To Negotiate Wages And Benefits’ Is ‘Fundamental’ To Middle Class
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/15/packers-support-workers/

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

Coach Lombardi would be proud of them.

[ProSense]

2. How the hell did that clown get elected in WI? n/t

[Ninga]

4. Here's the answer. The same idiots who voted for him, voted for Kasich in Ohio. n/t

[blondeatlast]

3. But DUers keep telling me I shouldn't sympathize with the players 'coz what have they ever

done for us?!

How can this be?!
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I support the WI workers and I support the players v. the owners. Period.

Thank you, Packers!

[demosincebirth]

5. What about the rest of the team? They make good money...thanks to their UNION!

[Bozita]

6. I wanna see Charles Woodson signing onto this.

[Starry Messenger]

7. k&r

[Upton]

8. Only two of those guys..

Poppinga and Spitz, are current NFL players..

[malaise]

9. Go Packers!

Love you bad!