“We look to the future, we refuse to return to the past,” said Federation President Carol Dotlich.
Events in Wisconsin have sparked the national wave of activism that produced Friday’s rally, she said, before introducing a surprise guest – Wisconsin state Sen. Spencer Coggs, one of the “Wisconsin 14” Democratic senators who fled the state rather than give majority Republicans the quorum they needed to strip away collective bargaining rights.
Coggs addresses 12,000 in Olympia -- flanked by Federation honor guard.
“Brothers and sisters, we must unite,” Coggs said, flanked by an honor guard of Federation members in AFSCME green.“We must fight. We must take back workers’ rights. Because the people united can never be defeated.”
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