United Steel Workers protest near Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson’s office
BY JEFF BOLLIER | PostCrescent.com
AUGUST 12, 2010
Oshkosh’s busy day of campaign visits and events started with a union protest and ended with a visit to a manufacturer at the forefront of the renewable energy industry in the state.
More than two dozen members of the United Steel Workers and other employee unions demonstrated outside Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson’s office Wednesday morning to show disdain for Republican economic policies Johnson supports.
In the afternoon gubernatorial candidates Mark Neumann, a Republican, and Democrat Tom Barrett made separate appearances in the city.
The steelworkers organized their protest after Johnson said he supports free-trade policies, most-favored-nation trade status for China and other trade pacts during the July 26 edition of “Here and Now” on Wisconsin Public Radio. Johnson’s comment that job loss related to those policies was “creative destruction” particularly angered the crowd.
This November, we should try a different sort of creative destruction,” Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Tom Nelson told the more than two dozen people at the rally. “We should end Ron Johnson’s run for Senate this November.”
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