Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is trying to take away the freedom of nurses, teachers and other workers across the state to bargain for middle-class jobs and living standards.

More shows of solidarity with Wisconsin workers. Tomorrow, Feb. 22, Pittsburgh Council member Natalia Rudiak will preview a proclamation co-sponsored by all nine city Council members expressing support and respect for public workers prior to the Pittsburgh City Council’s regular weekly meeting.

Wisconsin working families, rallying to save middle-class jobs in the state Capitol in Madison, have received hundreds of free pizzas from supporters literally around the world.

This in from the Indiana State AFL-CIO:

While thousands of Indiana workers rallied, the falsely labeled “right to work” for less legislation passed the House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee on a party-line vote.

It’s no coincidence that public-sector collective bargaining arose in tandem with the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1965, writes Joseph McCartin, associate professor of history and director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.

John August, executive director of Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and a native Wisconsinite, sends us this on events there. The coalition is an alliance of 29 local unions representing 90,000 health care workers.

I am a proud Wisconsinite—not just because of the recent victory of the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl 45, but also because of the state’s great progressive traditions. Those traditions include a strong labor movement and the birth of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the major public-sector union, in 1936.

The world is watching Wisconsin. Because it’s clear if Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the state legislature succeed in their attacks against the middle class there, it can happen across the United States.

Wow. Amazing support for Wisconsin workers under siege. This in from Maine state Rep. Diane Russell.

I grew up quite poor in western Maine. The only reason I have the chance to serve the people of this great state is because of public financing. The great thing about public financing is that I am entirely beholden to the best interests of my people, not to the Corporatocracy that has taken over our democratic Republic.

Joe Uehlein is the executive director of Labor Network for Sustainability.

Advocates for sustainability, under assault from climate deniers and drill-baby-drillers, are struggling to protect the earth from global warming, desertification, extinction of plants and animals, and other looming threats. Why should they also be concerned about the escalating attack on America’s labor unions?

Kamal Abbas, general coordinator of the independent Egyptian Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS), has sent an amazing message of solidarity to U.S. workers under assault by CEO-backed governors and state legislators.