Efforts to lower wages reaching new heights in Wisconsin

The effort to lower wages in America is going to reach new heights in Wisconsin this week.  Wall Street billionaires and political extremists are joining together to force a vote on right-to-work legislation which is wrong for Wisconsin hardworking families.

This is a blatant attempt to silence workers’ voices to stop us from speaking out about lower wages and mistreatment at work. 

In America, we have a strong tradition of having each other’s backs.

Right now, workers from throughout Wisconsin and across the country are gathering in Wisconsin to fight back, together. They are using the tool Gov. Scott Walker is most afraid of: Their collective voice.

This right-to-work sham is about much more than unions.

It is simply the next step in the billionaire right-wing’s attempt to strip our freedoms to bargain with our employers as we see fit, ensure safe work places, and raise wages across the country.

Billionaires like the Koch brothers and the Walton family are engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle our economy by lowering wages, while lining their pockets with record profits.

Unions and collective action are a powerful line of defense against this aggressive attack on our working families. We need to use this fight to help all workers — union and non-union — nite in their collective voice and in their demand to raise wages throughout our country.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers-and more.