Last year, on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the national Iraq Veterans Against the War movement organized a historic march in Madison. An estimated 10,000 veterans rallied in solidarity with the movement that challenged Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-labor agenda. “We’re public employees too,” explained Aaron Hughes, an IVAW organizer who worked with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union to get the march together. “Many veterans go into the public sector because there’s a veterans’ preference, so we depend on these public sector unions to protect our rights as veterans.”
Iraq vets back public workers, public workers back vets
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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