AFSCME Member from Ohio Delivers Petition: Stop the Attacks!

Stephanie Wiley is a child care attendant in Ohio. Every day, she wakes up before the sun rises to help children with special needs who ride the bus to school. But this week she did something unusual. She flew to Washington, DC, to deliver a petition signed by more than 100,000 workers across the nation, demanding that a special interest group stop its attacks on America's middle-class families. Wiley has been doing her job for 25 years and does it because she cares about her community. Across the country, millions of public service workers like her – teachers, firefighters, nurses and more – are keeping our communities safe, healthy and running smoothly each day. But corporate CEOs and wealthy special interests who manipulate the economic rules in their favor are trying to make it even harder for working people to come together, speak up and get ahead. They've pushed a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court called Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association that could make it harder for public workers to serve their communities. Workers across the country are speaking loudly and clearly to defend their right to a voice on the job. Many signed the petition, which Wiley...

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