Wow! Wisconsin workers receiving letters of support from around the world

[ProSense]

Via the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

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LETTERS TO WISCONSIN LEGISLATORS IN SUPPORT OF WISCONSIN WORKERS:

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Kenya Union of Commercial Food and Allied Workers

German Trade Union of Municipal Employees - Arts, Media, Sports and the Professions

Turkish Trade Union of Public Employees in Health and Social Services

Public Sector Union of the Netherlands

Canadian National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)

Grenada Public Workers' Union

Australian Community and Public Sector Union and State Public Services Federation

Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin

Pakistan Public Sector Employees Federation

Public Services International of France

New South Wales Nurses' Associastion

Public Service Executive Union in Ireland

Canadian Union of Public Employees

Rev. Gregory J. O'Meara

Rabbi Jonathan Biatch

Wisconsin Catholic Conference

Wisconsin Professional Police Association & Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin

Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council

Wisconsin State Building Trades Crafts

United Steel Workers District 2 (2 letters)

UAW Region 4

Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers (2 letters)

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1473

Painters & Allied Trades District Council 7

Int'l. Association of Machinists, District 10

NorthEast Wisconsin Building & Construction Trades Council

Building & Construction Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin

Western Wisconsin Building & Construction Trades Council

Green Bay Electrical Workers Local 158

Int'l. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 159

United Association Local 434

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Local 509

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Links to the letters are at the site.

[barbtries]

1. we can also send letters of support

http://action.seiu.org/page/s/wisconsin

just got an email.

[drmeow]

2. Thanks

I've been looking for something for this. Even send an e-mail to the WI AFL-CIO but haven't heard back.

[ProSense]

3. Cool, thanks. n/t

[barbtries]

5. sure thing

on the webpage where the letters are linked, they're in some format my computer doesn't recognize. :(

never mind, firefox opens them. i don't know why it wasn't automatic but it worked.

[canetoad]

6. All the letters on that page

Are scanned and in Adobe Illustrator format. Chose 'open with' Acrobat reader. If you have the Acrobat browser plug-in, that will do the job.

[NJCher]

7. how did you get Firefox to open them?

When I click the links, they appear to be Word docs. Weird. Can't figure out why they'd do that.

Here's the one from Grenada. I love it.



February 18, 2011


Governor Scott Walker
115 East Capitol Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53702
USA
[e-mail]


Dear Governor Walker,


I am writing on behalf of Grenada Public Workers’ Union to express our dismay over the developments regarding the collective bargaining rights for the public employees in Wisconsin.

We have been informed that you will seek to have legislation passed over the coming days that will eliminate collective bargaining rights for the employees in public services. This will be a serious violation of international labour conventions.

We regard your proposed unilateral action as an attack on one of the fundamental pillars in a well-developed democracy, where social dialogue and collective bargaining through trade unions secures constructive relationships between employers and employees. This kind of relationship has proved its high value in many countries, both in times of economic growth and during crisis.

We understand that you have refused to meet the unions to negotiate solutions that could contribute to balancing the budget - this is not the way we expect democratically elected leaders to act.

We have been informed that you have announced that you will call out the National Guard if public sector unions protest in what you may consider a disruptive way.

I am sure that you have been following the developments in Tunisia and Egypt and will welcome real democracies in these countries. For trade union members in these countries, their struggle is also related to respect for human rights and trade union rights. This includes the right to organise and the right to collective bargaining for public sector employees who have been in the front line fighting for democracy. Instead of attacking the public sector unions and their members in your state, we urge you to choose a constructive path and stand by commitments that have already been set out in legally-negotiated collective agreements.

Governor Walker, we ask you to show respect towards public workers and stop the unilateral attacks on their unions. A constructive relationship between your government and trade unions will most benefit the citizens of Wisconsin.


Best regards


Madonna Harford
President
GRENADA PUBLIC WORKERS’ UNION



Cher

[barbtries]

8. they appear to be all the same

must have been passed around on the web. :)

mine showed up as unaffiliated with any program and i just told it to use firefox. i believe they are in fact pdf docs.

[Cleita]

4. Perhaps a world revolution for the rights of

workers in in the future.

:bounce:

Love it! Where will all the kings, dictators and oligarchs go when there are no more workers and slaves to exploit.

[jwirr]

9. Globalization has arrived but not in the form that the big boys wanted.

[flamingdem]

10. great! nt