US left finds it voice over Wisconsin attack on union rights

[steve2470]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/24/wisconsin-union-rights-protest

Proudly displayed in a corner window of the Barriques coffee shop, a block from Wisconsin's state capitol building, is a poster advocating Workers of the World Unite – not the kind of sign normally seen in shops in America.

But the last fortnight has been unusual. Tens of thousands have been turning out in this normally quiet midwest city for the biggest demonstrations in the US since the Vietnam war, and the state capitol building is under occupation day and night.

After a year dominated by the Tea Party, the American left has found its voice, and a cause, united against a bill backed by the state's Republican governor, Scott Walker, to neuter public sector unions.

The bill, which restricts collective bargaining and other union rights, was close to being passed by the Republican members of the Wisconsin state assembly on Thursday.

[PA Democrat]

1. No, it's just that we are finally getting some media coverage.

[myrna minx]

2. Exactly. n/t

[gratuitous]

3. Beat me to it

Although you may notice that the original story is from England, so it may not be surprising to folks overseas that the American Left has been apparently voiceless for so long.

[EC]

4. Not just the left.

Many of the right has jumped over on this one.