Monday, May 02, 2011

Dems rally public workers to push Brown's agenda

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The sign fourth-grade teacher Julie Timmerman held declared in large bold letters "I am a public service worker."

It was a tribute to the civil rights slogan "I am a man," and it was an iconic image at the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento over the weekend. While Democrats dominate California's political landscape and hold all its major offices, both political leaders and the labor unions that put them in power are sounding the alarm about anti-union initiatives that are creeping into the state and efforts to "demonize" union workers as the source of the California's knee-buckling economic problems.

Unions and their Democratic allies are now pushing back against the attacks.

The unions hope you don't read this amazing story on California prison guards.