![]() Office, One Ashburton Place from 9 to 9:45 AM.Ĥ) 10 AM at Gardiner Auditorium in the State House. Bring your family and loved ones.Ģ) Call your State Representative and State Senator and schedule appointments to meet with them on Lobby Day (if you can’t get appointments to with your rep or senator, make an appointment to meet with their staff)ģ) There will be coffee at the M.T.A. This is an elitist attack on ALL Organized Labor as well as all working men and women in this country.ġ) Plan to attend Lobby Day at the State House on April 4th. And if this right is stripped away the rest will be sure to follow. We may even provide transportation.Īs you know, cities and towns throughout Massachusetts are working hard to take away the right of PUBLIC EMPLOYEES to have a say in your health insurance. I will urge all my members and officers who have time or who will not be working that day to join me in attending this very important event at the State House. NAGE Local 495 Members and Officers will be joining our National Office and other Unions from across the Commonwealth on Monday April 4 th to lobby legislators to preserve the right to bargain over health insurance for public employees. Nonetheless, voters around the country who oppose the widespread efforts to undermine public unions - largely financed by corporate interests - should draw strength from Tuesday’s success, not discouragement.ĭear Sisters, Brothers, family and friends and all PUBLIC EMPLOYEES It was probably a stretch for union supporters to go after six incumbent senators, rather than concentrate their forces on the most vulnerable. Had Democrats won one more district, they would control the Senate, but they were also trying to send a warning to Republican lawmakers around the country who are trying to break public employee unions. The districts lean Republican, and getting people to turn out in an unusual off-year election is always a struggle. Recall elections are extremely difficult to win only two had succeeded in the state in the last 80 years. Walker’s opponents did not succeed in turning over the Senate, but it was still an impressive response to the governor’s arrogant overreach. Two of the state senators who backed the law were thrown out of office by voters Tuesday and replaced with Democrats. Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through a law stripping public unions of their bargaining rights, the Republican Party has paid a price. ![]()
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