About 100 New York union leaders and Democratic politicians staged a noisy City Hall rally yesterday in support of Wisconsin workers.
“We are confronting an assault on labor that is so corrosive, so sweeping and so destructive that if allowed to succeed, it will roll back nearly a century of reforms in the American workplace,” Jack Ahern, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, shouted from the City Hall steps.
Dennis Hughes, president of the state AFL-CIO, told the rally, “We know that collective bargaining is the first step in freedom for working men and women, and through collective bargaining, we are able to and we have built the middle class in this country.”