Labor in the News: AFSCME Council 26's Goldman on Federal Impact of Wisconsin Vote
Friday, June 8, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)AFSCME Council 26 Executive Director – and
Metro Council Board member – Carl Goldman
(at
right) told The Washington Post (What
does Wisconsin vote mean for feds?,
6/6/2012) he can’t imagine Wisconsin Governor
Scott Walker’s recent victory “emboldening
[congressional Republicans] any more than they
already are.” As the Post noted, House Republicans
have repeatedly pushed to limit federal
employee compensation, weaken federal unions,
and cut the number of federal employees. A pay
freeze and many other attacks on federal
workers have already been enacted. Though “a
long list of additional, much worse legislation
republicans proposed has not gone anywhere
yet,” Goldman told Union City it’s time for
federal workers to “step up the
mobilization” against these attacks.- photo of Goldman
at downtown SAMs workers protest outside BID
headquarters on 04/29/2011 by Adam
Wright