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The assault on workers' rights in Wisconsin is backfiring in more ways than one on Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers, between recalls, sinking poll numbers and small business owners siding with workers.

Truth be told, it's almost impossible to narrow down the hundreds of clever, creative signs being used in the state battles to just two or three. But we're going to do it each week, and we want your help.

It's not just Wisconsin and Ohio where workers are fighting to save collective bargaining rights, their voice at work and democracy itself.

Gearing up for the biggest nationwide mobilization of workers in decades, CWA, the union movement and a growing list of allies are planning activities and events for April 4, the day in 1968 that Martin Luther King was murdered while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis.

Wisconsin Senate Republicans used a "nuclear option" Wednesday night to destroy their state workers' bargaining rights, violating the state's open meetings law and defying the vast majority of voters who polls show support collective bargaining for public employees. The state Assembly passed the bill Thursday.