ILWU members arrived in Madison, WI to defend collective bargaining rights for workers.

61 workers from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, including  10 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), arrived at the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison in a show of solidarity from 850,000 union workers in LA County.

The video below shows several union speakers from the Los Angeles area.The first video is of ILWU Local 13 Vice President Bobby Olvera Jr. addressing the demonstrators and thanking them for defending the rights of workers.

See our Flickr photostream of this event here.