Rally for Good Jobs, Living Wages, and Public Services! Get on the bus with us to stop the attack on the public sector! March 15th / Noon / Capitol Steps in Nashville / for more information and to find out how you can join our fight, go to ucw-cwa.org
The Republicans’ claim to be acting on behalf of taxpayers is not believable…[their] true priority is stripping workers of collective-bargaining rights and reducing their unions to a shell.
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| — | From today’s New York Times’ editorial page, “Spreading Anti-Union Agenda.” Budget cuts are being used to attack working peoples’ organizations that are the last line of defense against the wealthy’s attempts to make more, more, more. With income inequality in the US steeper than it has been since the Great Depression, we need to stand up to these attacks and support the rights of workers to organize together for their rights—and ours. |
Members of Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee join with hundreds of University of Tennessee-Knoxville workers and students at the first demonstration of United Campus Workers in 2000. We’ve got to stand up for the rights of the people who make our public services work!
News coverage of a United Campus Workers rally to oppose budget cuts and layoffs in Tennessee public higher education institutions, like the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee has played a strategic support role to the public higher ed workers union since it started.
