While the assault on workers in Wisconsin is drawing national attention, the state level coordinated attacks on middle-class jobs and workers’ rights roll on across the country. (Visit our new States of Denial website here for more information.)

UAW President Bob King says he and the union’s members fully support Wisconsin workers’ “courageous efforts”:

to fight back against this thinly veiled, purely partisan effort to destroy unions in favor of a system [Gov. Scott]Walker and his well-heeled political pals will control.

Wisconsin state Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D) says he and his colleagues who left the state Capitol yesterday—delaying a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) budget bill that would take away bargaining rights from county and local employees as well as state workers—took the action “to allow time for the involved parties to work together to balance the budget.”

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is scheduled to speak at noon CST to the expected 20,000-plus as the weeklong protest in Madison against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) attack on middle-class jobs and state workers continues.

Our Eddie Vale will be tweeting the speech, so follow on twitter here or check back with us for coverage.

In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich (R) is fighting to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees—but private-sector workers know darn well an attack on middle-class jobs hurts all workers in the state.

MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” will air from Madison, Wis., tonight, where Ed Schultz will cover what he calls “the most important story in our country right now….I intend to stand up for American workers.”

Just got a report from some of our folks on the ground in Columbus, Ohio: more than 5,000 people—firefighters, teachers, small business leaders, community members and other public-service workers—filled the statehouse again today to show their opposition to Senate Bill 5 which would  eliminate collective bargaining rights for all state workers, including faculty and staff at Ohio state colleges and universities.

Just got off the phone with the Frank Emspak of Workers Independent News (WIN) labor radio and he says it looks like today’s crowd in Madison, Wis., to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) attack on workers could grow bigger than yesterday’s 30,000. About three blocks from the main plaza by the Capitol, the streets are jammed. In fact, there are so many people, cell phone coverage is spotty at best.

Check out WIN’s latest from Madison here.

After daylong protests yesterday drew as many as 30,000 people in Madison, hundreds of Wisconsin workers, students and allies camped out last night in the Capitol Rotunda as a hearing on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) budget bill that eliminates collective bargaining rights for nearly all of the state’s public service workers went past midnight.

The Wisconsin battle against Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on workers’ rights has drawn national attention. President Obama weighed in during an interview with WTMJ radio in Milwaukee yesterday, saying Walker’s plan looked less like an attempt to fix the state’s budget deficit and “more of an assault on unions.”