Saturday, December 8, 2012

Unions to provide civil disobedience training, prepare for more Michigan Capitol protests!

mlive.com ^ | December 07, 2012 at 4:00 PM, | Melissa Anders

LANSING, MI — Union members say their fight isn’t over after the House and Senate passed bills to make Michigan a right-to-work state.
After a long day of protesting inside and outside the state Capitol, union leaders called on members to attend civil disobedience training on Saturday, and return to Lansing for more protests on Tuesday.
“We’ve got to rebuild the broad social justice movement; I think this is going to energize people,” said United Auto Workers President Bob King. “All this administration has done is attack working people, so it’s our job to go out and talk in our communities…”
Union members will learn how to protest, get noticed, stay safe and conduct themselves in a peaceful way, said SEIU Michigan State Council President Marge Robinson-Faville.
The training will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at UAW Local 600 in Dearborn.
Members will meet at the Lansing Center to protest the right-to-work bills on Tuesday, which is the next scheduled session day for the legislature.
“Never have all the unions come together as strong as they have now,” King said. “In every crisis there’s opportunity; we've got to make this the opportunity that changes Michigan, as we’re trying to change this country to be about working families again.”
Hundreds -- if not a few thousand -- union members and others gathered at the Capitol for hours on Thursday, chanting against the right-to-work bills.
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