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Like never before. we believe that this is the time. >> and one of the things that i've found very, very interesting about it is that you and afscme prepared for if you got a negative decision that you were going to use this as an organizing vehicle and have been able to actually show the numbers, work with outside groups, including mine, to talk about the value of labor movements, labor unions, and what they protect. because i think what the public needs to understand is when you negotiate to get more benefits and security and all, that's for everybody. so why wouldn't you want to support and...

That's what we're trying to do in state after state, city after city. >> part of what i have seen around the country is that afscme is talking about a day to day, door to door operation. i know that all of us will be working with you all around the 50th assassination of martin luther king in memphis and that was a afscme boycott or strike that he was there for. and using that to galvanize and mobilize. but to do it on the grass roots basis. 50 years after dr. king's assassination, 50 years after the sanitation strikers there in memphis which was the reason he came, we are confronted with the s...

3rd, april 4th, this year, 50 years since that sanitation workers strike. 1,300 african-american sanitation workers of afscme local 33 going on strike. remember they carried those placards that said i am a man. dr. king decided to travel to memphis on numerous occasions because he understood the connection between civil rights and economic and labor rights and human rights. he ultimately gave his life in support of those sanitation workers. we have got to remember that day. we've got to commemorate the importance of that strike and dr. king giving his life for those rights. but we have -- we a...

That this budget, that the democrats who control springfield passed last week uses every budgetary trick in the book. they borrow, they inflated, they raised the revenue estimates. they didn't even appropriate money that's going to be needed to pay pay raises for stay workers that afscme negotiated so whoever is going to win in november is going to face billions and billions of dollars in unpaid bills. >> this is a traditionally blue state, but the economy is such a big issue, the state budget is this enough for a republican to take the chair? >> it could be. it depends on the extent that raun...

>> that is critical to everyone. >> mayor, they oppose it. you guys are for it. i'm asking where are the fors out there? why aren't you making the case with the public? look at these numbers. >> it's not making the case. the public is on our side. we don't need to make the case. >> that's why we're on your show today. >> okay. where's the heat? >> we're on your show today to make the case. >> senator, i don't want to attack the ones who show up, but you're shows up -- okay. >> we're going to be saying -- thank you. >> which unions are making the most noise? who's out there making the biggest c...