Workers are gathering again at the Indiana Statehouse today (Friday, January 6^th) to make sure their voices are heard as the Republican-Controlled Legislature attempts to ram through a so-called Right To Work (RTW) Bill that Republican Governor Mitch Daniels says is at the top of the State’s agenda.

Yesterday, more than 7,000 Working People traveled to Indianapolis and rallied outside and then jammed the Statehouse after the Daniels Administration rescinded its order restricting citizens’ access to the proceedings.

While Republican State House and Senate Leaders are trying to quick-march the RTW Bill through the Legislature, Democrats are calling for a series of statewide hearings where citizens’ voices can be heard.

Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott has called on Daniels to reveal the secret donors behind the statewide television commercials he appears in calling for passage of the RTW legislation.  The group sponsoring the ads, Indiana Opportunity Fund, refuses to divulge who is funding the group.

Meanwhile, the Center for Media and the Democracy’s (CMD) PR Watch has outlined the connections and relationships between the extremist American Legislative Council (ALEC) and Indiana Lawmakers and how their RTW bill mirrors the “model” legislation from ALEC.  The Bill, writes CMD Executive Director Lisa Graves, “tracks key provisions of ‘model’ legislation secretly voted on by corporations and politicians” on an ALEC task force.

Along with the more than 2,000 extreme lawmakers from every State, including dozens from Indiana, ALEC boasts more than 300 major corporations as members - such as Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, Kraft Foods, Bayer and Koch Industries.  David and Charles Koch, the Right-Wing Extremist Billionaire Brothers, are major funders of ALEC, according to a July article in The Nation.

You can follow the action from Indian on Twitter with the hashtag #InUnion and at the Stand Up for Hoosiers Facebook page here.