Show your solidarity with Wisconsin workers with this great new “Stand with Wisconsin” T-shirt.

This afternoon, the National Football League Players Association and managers extended the contract deadline for another seven days while negotiations continue.

Opponents of the right of public employees to bargain for middle-class jobs in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may switch their votes and support public employees. Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal that with a 19-14 majority in the state Senate, Republicans cannot lose more than two votes if they want to ram through Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-worker agenda.

This is a crosspost from the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO.

This evening the court of law ruled that the Wisconsin State Capitol MUST remain open to its people. The Capitol is going to resume business hours and protesters will be asked to leave every night.

This just in: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he won’t concede on the issue of taking away public employees’ collective bargaining rights, but he may on others.

Wow. Let’s hear it for the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA). Today the organization slammed Senate Republicans after they ordered the detention of 14 Democratic senators staying in Illinois “with or without force.” Here’s the statement by these defenders of civil liberties and democracy:

“Politics aside, encouraging the forcible detention of duly elected lawmakers because they won’t allow you to dictate with a free hand is an unreasonable abuse of police power,” said WPPA Executive Director Jim Palmer. “Due to the fact that Wisconsin officers lack any jurisdiction across state lines, does Sen. Fitzgerald intend to establish a ‘lawmaker border patrol?’ The thought of using law enforcement officers to exercise force in order to achieve a political objective is insanely wrong and Wisconsin sorely needs reasonable solutions and not potentially dangerous political theatrics.”

One more study is out now that explodes the myth that public employees make more than their counterparts in the private sector. A new Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study released this week finds that full-time state and local government employees in Missouri are undercompensated by 15.7 percent, when compared with similar private-sector workers.

Check out this great video from our team here that pulls together some of the many moments of people power in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states where governors and state legislatures are trying to take away the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs. It gives a glimpse of the huge outpouring of nationwide support and solidarity for workers under siege by lawmakers who are bought and paid for by billionaire CEOs like the Koch brothers.

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) gave a powerful statement this morning on the House floor in which he described the real agenda of anti-worker governors, state lawmakers and Republicans in Congress who are targeting America’s working families through the guise of budget-cutting. Some snippets below, but you gotta watch his full speech.

Here’s an update to the temporary restraining order this morning opening the Wisconsin state Capitol. Eddie Vale, the AFL-CIO’s political communications director on the ground in Madison, reports that the judge will hold a hearing this afternoon to hear arguments on the case.

Meanwhile, Thomhartmann.com reports the state police are limiting protesters inside the Capitol to 250.