| Brothers and Sisters,
It’s time to take our fight to the streets.
Yesterday Governor Mitch Daniels, Speaker Brian Bosma, Senate President David Long and their corporate paymasters were able ram through the unpopular and unnecessary right to work for less bill despite the lack of any public support or verifiable evidence of its economic benefit.
Thousands turned out at the Statehouse in what is likely to be one of the largest demonstrations in Indianapolis’ history. However yesterday’s vote, the rally and the march through the Super Bowl village to Lucas Oil Stadium is only the beginning.
 It’s now time to get to work taking our government back.
The first order of business is making sure that every working person in this state knows what happened - and how it happened. We must spread the word about how those in control worked to shut us up and shut us out. They need to understand how this law will lower their wages, reduce their benefits and make them less safe at work.
And, they need to know who stood with working people and who stood with corporate America. You can find the House roll call here and the State Senate roll call here.
Our second job is to get every working person and every member of organized laborregistered to vote. To find out how to register, click this link. We simply cannot allow what happened yesterday to go unpunished. Our only avenue left is to vote the bums out, and like we did in the 1950s and 1960s, repeal right to work.
Third, we need to find labor friendly candidates to run against every single person who voted in favor of right to work. We need Republicans to run in the primary and Democrats to run in the general election. None of the Republicans who supported RTW will get a pass.
Time is running out to file for these races, but if you’ve had enough and are ready to put your name on the line, please contact us immediately so we can assist you with the necessary paperwork.
Brothers and sisters, we can never forget about what happened on Wednesday. However, now we must channel our anger and frustration into action and change. The governor and some members of the Indiana General Assembly failed the people of Indiana yesterday – we must not.
In solidarity,
The Indiana State AFL-CIO
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