We are union members, students, civil rights advocates, progressives, retirees, environmentalists, small business owners, members of the faith community, and many more. We believe that the attacks on working families taking place in state legislatures across the nation pose a serious threat to an economic recovery for the middle class.

Working families face a coordinated assault on collective bargaining, prevailing wages, public education, project labor agreements, benefits, safety and health services, and their ability to work towards a reasonable quality of life.

The scapegoating of working families, which we are seeing, is politics at its worst, and the argument that eliminating collective bargaining rights will save states money is absurd. The only money shifting hands right now is coming from the Big Business interests who would like nothing more than to see collective bargaining dismantled permanently.

It will take millions of Americans to stand up to the moneyed interests who want to turn back the clock on generations of populist reforms which were the foundation of our middle class. Fortunately, there are more of us then there are of them, and together we are building a movement which protects the democratic rights of all workers.

To learn more about what we stand for, you can view our mission statement here.