The United Steelworkers, North America's largest industrial union, announced on Friday that it supported the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" protest that began in lower Manhattan and has slowly spread to other cities across the United States.
Transport Workers Union president John Samuelson appeared Friday on Current TV's Countdown and explained to guest host David Shuster that his union is making common cause with the Occupy Wall Street protesters because they are “singing the same song and fighting the same battle that our union has fought for the last eighteen months.”
NEW YORK — About 2,000 anti-corporate demonstrators marched Friday from a protest camp they have occupied near Wall Street to the headquarters of the New York Police Department.
Labor unions and liberal activist groups plan to throw their weight behind the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York City that has now lasted 13 straight days, according to Crain's New York.
