Category: Budget & Taxes
- 04/14/11 Michigan Rally Defends Middle Class, Opposes Budget Cuts More than 7,000 Michigan residents from throughout the state rallied at the Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday to oppose Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s anti-worker budget plan.
- 04/12/11 Happy National Library Workers Day Today, in the midst of budget cuts to libraries across the country, we celebrate National Library Workers Day and recognize the important services provided by library workers under increasingly difficult circumstances.
- 04/12/11 11,000 Ohioans Kick Off Campaign to Repeal Anti-Worker Legislation AFSCME members join thousands of workers from across Ohio vowing to veto SB 5 in November.
- 04/11/11 Rallies for Workers’ Rights and Public Services Still Going Strong AFSCME members are not taking a spring break from ongoing efforts to demonstrate the depth and breadth of public opposition to plans to slash public services and attack the rights of workers.
- 04/08/11 Shutdown? Republicans in the U.S. House are threatening to shut down the federal government if Democrats don’t concede to their proposals to slash critical public services.
- 04/07/11 Florida Legislature Pulls Plug on Privatization of Northeast Florida State Hospital One of the many dangerous proposals in Gov. Rick Scott's budget is now off the table.
- 04/07/11 1 Kasich Budget = 51,000 Lost Ohio Jobs Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) has proposed a two-year budget which could mean a direct loss of 51,052 existing Ohio jobs in K-12 education, higher education, state personnel and local governments [...]
- 04/06/11 MSNBC Profiles Public Service Workers Under Attack As attacks on public service workers continue across the country, MSNBC.com has posted a collection of stories — “Faces of the public sector” — examining how public workers are dealing with what has become an increasingly hostile climate.
- 04/04/11 Memphis Sanitation Workers Remember Memphis sanitation workers from the famous 1968 strike stand in solidarity with workers across the country who are fighting the same battle for rights today.
- 03/31/11 New Haven, Conn.: Thousands Rally in Solidarity with Workers under Siege More than 3,000 union members and their progressive allies marched on the streets on New Haven, Conn. Wednesday.
