Tens of thousands gather at Indiana’s statehouse to support workers’ rights

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By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 -- 2:44 pm

Facing down icy conditions, tens of thousands of union workers and supporters gathered outside Indiana's statehouse Thursday to protest a bill that would strip all union workers of their bargaining rights.

Like in Wisconsin, a number of the state's elected Democrats have fled, preventing a vote from taking place. Also like Wisconsin, the protests have only grown in recent weeks.

According to organizers, Thursday's protest was the biggest of them all, possibly even eclipsing a 1995 union protest that many have called the largest in Indiana's history.