Jane Carter, of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employee (AFSCME),
addressed the 2013 UNISON conference in Liverpool about the relentless and well funded attacks on unions in the USA. Here she is interviewed by Thom Hartmann on The Big Picture and discusses the forces behind the anti union psychosis in many US states. Jane highlights the continued existence of a union wage premium despite decades of membership decline.
Americans for Tax Reform is the powerful right wing lobby upon which the UK’s Taxpayers’ Alliance is modelled. Its President Grover Norquist uses as a platform on the Guardian website to map out the coming republican offensive against public service unions and the Democratic Party, following the failure to unseat anti-union Republican Governor Scott Walker in Tuesday’s recall election:
Report from a UNISONActive reader in Washington DC: Last week massive labor protests overwhelmed Wisconsin’s state capitol.
Wisconsin is the birthplace of AFSCME. They have a long and proud history in the state. In a matter of days, all they have built there over the past 75 years could be profoundly jeopardised. But more importantly, the very existence of public employee unionism is now on the line across the country.
