We Are One on May Day (Omaha Steve speaking next Sunday too)

[Omaha Steve]

I'll be at the state capitol in Lincoln.

http://peoplesworld.org/we-are-one-on-may-day/

by: Joelle Fishman
April 22 2011

International Worker's Day has come home. Out of the depths of the raging class war against public workers, their unions and all working people, has arisen a call by the labor movement from Wisconsin to Connecticut to rally on May Day.

The resurgence in our country of May Day, International Workers Day, sparked by the mega marches for immigrant rights five years ago, reflects a growing understanding of the power and necessity of worker solidarity.



In Connecticut, a full day of marches, rallies and activities will be capped off with the annual People's World Newsmaker Awards in New Haven, honoring state workers, their unions and the services they provide.

At 1 p.m. on May 1 in Hartford's Bushnell Park, thousands of workers are expected to gather for a massive labor rally. State elected officials and members of Congress are scheduled to be on hand.

"May Day will be workers' day at the Connecticut state capitol when 26 building trades councils and state-wide unions gather under the banner Enough is Enough! say rally organizers.

Charles LeConche, business manager of Connecticut Laborers' District Council which initiated the rally, emphasizes, "We intend to send a very strong message to the public, media and industry leaders that workers' rights need to be preserved. However, the way trends are going now, we are seeing the decline of these rights and the disintegration of the American family."

FULL story at link.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Found on Snopes Message Boards

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1423893

On 2nd of May, Hitler outlawed the trade unions. SA seized all buildings, including printing presses, newspapers and all assets. Trade union leadres were taken into prisons and concentration camps. All assets of the trade unions were assigned to the German Labour Front, a sub-organisation of the NSDAP (Wikipedia - I don't know where the author got the part about "corruption in the existing unions" from).

Here's a picture of SA entering a trade union building in Berlin on 5/2/1933:

[truedelphi]

2. You go Steve!

Here's hoping you rock the house!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. First they came for the unions, .....