It's costing Hoosier taxpayers alone $130 million a year because these workers are forced to rely on public assistance when they would rather be making a wage that allows them to be supporting their families, Nancy Guyott with the Indiana AFL-CIO said at the time.
Nancy Guyott, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, said Long quite possibly misled reporters on Thursday about when the Senate would take up the right to work bill in order to keep down the number of protesters. Labor union members have been in the Statehouse daily to oppose the bill.
Date: Jan 20, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Union-Law Fight Has Indiana's Legislature Mired in Limbo Again
The Indiana State AFL-CIO, a union coalition, is running television and radio ads attacking the bill. Nancy Guyott, president of the state chapter, the bill would have an overwhelmingly negative impact on workers wages.
State police said more than 8,000 people gathered outside the Statehouse at the rally's peak, making it the largest rally at the Indiana Statehouse in years. Nancy Guyott, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, told the cheering crowd that craftsmen built the Statehouse more than 100 years ago, and that they had returned Thursday to reclaim it.
Nancy Guyott (1973-1977), Judith Young (1963-1967), Michael Walsh (1960-1964), Barbara Lee (1960-1964), David Benson (1980-1984), Brooke Knutson (1994-1999)