Some 5,000 Mine Workers (UMWA) members, their families and other union and community supporters from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia braved cold winds and snow in a Waynesburg, Pa., march and rally to show We Are One with workers around the nation under assault. (Check out the video.)

The nation is “facing a frontal assault on the American way of life, and the prime target is the hard-working American family,” write AFSCME President Gerald McEntee and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)  in a column in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their column marking the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

From as far away as Mongolia, workers and their allies around the world are joining We Are One actions in solidarity with their U.S. sisters and brothers whose workers’ rights and middle-class jobs are under attack.

Across the nation and around the world today–and throughout the week–working people are saying, We Are One with workers whose rights and middle-class jobs are under attack in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere by Republican governors and legislators. They are also honoring the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. He was gunned down fighting for the same rights for Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers.

Around the nation today and this week union members, civil rights, community and faith activists are saying, “We are One” with working people in Wisconsin and dozens of other states where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away workers’ right. As Domestic Workers United founder Ai-Jen Poo says in this new video:

If we don’t have a strong labor movement we don’t have a voice for justice.

If House Republicans prevail and their move to overturn fair and democratic election rules for air and rail workers remains in the final version of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill (H.R. 658), the White House warned yesterday that President Obama would veto the bill.

UPDATE: Walker has removed the image from his Facebook page here.

Today’s word is duplicitous. Let’s use it in a sentence.  If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) claimed that he had the support of the AFL-CIO, that would be duplicitous. Now let’s use our Thesaurus to find similar words. Try these—double-dealing, tricky, deceitful, fraudulent, misleading, deceptive.

As we approach Tuesday, April 5, the first anniversary of the deadly blast at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) mine that killed 29 coal miners, the nation’s top mine safety official today called for tougher laws and bigger penalties for safety violators.

While Republican lawmakers like House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) continue their efforts to repeal the new health care reform law, last week Vermont moved a step closer to universal health care coverage when the state House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation, Said House Speaker Shap Smith (D):

This bill takes our state one step closer to a system that ensures that all Vermonters have access to the care they deserve and contains costs.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) finally decided to do what most any other law-abiding  citizen would do—obey a judge’s order. Walker administration officials told the Associated Press today that he will comply with a restraining order he defied last week that puts a temporary halt on his law that guts collective bargaining rights for public employees.