Janie Campbell is Acting President of the Charleston Saniitation Workers Union, Local 1199B, Charleston, South Carolina. City workers there have been waging a 6-year battle to win collective bargaining in order to improve pay and working condtions, especially health and safety, for the 120 sanitation, street, sidewalk and stormwater workers in the the city of Charleston, South Carolina

As the banks and big corporations receive trillions in bailout money, governments are balancing budgets on workers' backs. Public workers are under attack!

Cutting pay does not cut into the problems of the economic crisis. The budgets should not, and cannot, be balanced on the backs of workers.

Virginia UE Local 160 fought the City of Petersburg all the way through its grievance process to win reinstatement of a leader who was unjustly fired for building the union.

Frontline mental health workers in UE 150 hold two rallies at the gates of Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. Workers protested urgent problems such as understaffed psychiatric wards, low wages, and the planned closing of Dorothea Dix Hospital.