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10,000 union members surround the Wisconsin Capitol. Rumblings in Indiana. « Fred Klonsky's blog

10,000 union members surround the Wisconsin Capitol. Rumblings in Indiana. « Fred Klonsky's blog

10,000 union members surround the Wisconsin Capitol. Rumblings in Indiana.

Two and half hours north of Chicago, Madison, Wisconsin is ground zero in the fight to save the rights of those who work in public service.

But just across the border in Hammond, Indiana there are rank-and-file teachers who are talking about defying a state ban on teacher strikes.

Teachers in Indiana are being threatened with laws that could alter their rights to negotiate, revise teacher