Despite Exemption From Anti-Union Bill, Wisconsin Firefighters Stand with Public Sector Workers

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DemocracyNow.org -
Thousands of workers and labor activists have descended on Madison since last week, calling on state lawmakers to reject Republican Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union bill. Although police officers and firefighters are exempted from key provisions of the bill, they have joined the protests in large numbers. Democracy Now! interviews Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Wisconsin Professional Firefighters Association. "There is not one public employee that does their job to get rich," Mitchell says. "We don't do our job to get rich. We do our job to have a decent life, to have a decent middle-class family and not have to struggle like a lot of our other people do."

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  • Almost- communist? Lol what are you, stuck in 1950? Representation for workers are communist? Strikes are communist? You are not a patriotic American... Your an insult to this nation and should hold your head down in shame for your comments!

  • Useful fool. Good little commie. gave all the ISO talking points

  • Strong closing comment. Loved it!

  • People shouldn't be so hard on Walker ,I think he's just missunderstood like...Hitler ... Mossolini...Lindsay Lohan...

  • he looks like tiger woods

  • Love amy, startin to love that mediagrrl. Sent to others and we need to spread DEMOCRACY NOW. Democracy now inspires me. makes me a better person;

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