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Columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel writes in the Washington Post this week about the "American Dream Movement," which CWA and many other unions are supporting. "When teachers, students and firefighters joined with union members in Wisconsin this year to defend workers' rights and oppose the assault on public education, the mass demonstrations electrified progressives and captured national attention. When House Republicans passed a budget that would have ended Medicare as we know it while cutting taxes for the wealthy, angry citizens filled congressional town halls across the country. And in the aftermath of these battles, a collection of unions and progressive organizations have banded together to fight back in a coalition called the American Dream Movement," she writes.
Underscoring why American workers and middle-class families are in a fight for their survival, is this cartoon from Jeff Danziger about the Koch brothers.