CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2011. Moves to restrict the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin’s public-sector employees are “an attack on all working people,” according to Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union.
Gerard accused Republican state senators in Wisconsin of violating the state’s open meeting law by voting, without a quorum, to strip state employees of collective bargaining rights. “This is not democracy,” he said in a statement.
The Wisconsin vote came three weeks after Democratic…
