Labor & Employment Law

New Yorkers: Solidarity with Cheeseheads

By Tula Connell

New Yorkers looked particularily festive in their bright yellow swiss cheese hats today, as hundreds became honorary Cheeseheads while marching in solidarity with embattled workers in Wisconsin.

Bob Fertik writes about the event at the Jobs Party blog:

In  just 24 hours, NYC supporters of Wisconsin workers organized a spirited Cheesehead Rally in Manhattan to launch the Cheddar Revolution nationwide….

While we chanted, we crossed Sixth Avenue to rally in front of NBC for a few more speeches. Little did we know the Rachel Maddow Show was taking photos of us  from their offices way up above – hi Rachel!! Then we crossed Sixth Avenue again to end our rally in front of FOX News. Justin from Wisconsin led us in singing the chorus of Woody Guthrie’s “Union Maid.”

At the Daily Kos, Ask, a visitor from Norway, adds a European perspective:

In front of News Corp at the end of the march we had a fun little episode – a security guard came out and announced that we could not film or take photographs of the building. What a joker! We were on public property – the sidewalk. No one paid further attention to him (pics below) and the (few) police officers that followed our protest were highly professional and courteous – probably sympathetic as well. One of them simply said: “My father is a teacher”.

I hope the actions in Wisconsin and those in sympathy elsewhere can help bring Americans out of the current state of complacency.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).