Nation of Change has published the article, Occupy the Super Bowl: Indiana’s New Anti-Union Law Sparks Protest at Sport’s Biggest Event, about the video below.

“Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a so-called ‘right to work’ measure into law that critics say will result in lower wages and diminished collective bargaining rights.”

The article also contains a transcript of the interview in the video.

De­Mau­rice Smith re­cently ap­peared on Dave Zirin’s radio show Edge of Sports Radio. Smith is the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of The Na­tional Foot­ball League Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion.

DE­MAU­RICE SMITH: We are in lock-step with or­ga­nized labor. I’m proud to sit on the Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil of the AFL-CIO. Why? Be­cause we share all of the same is­sues that Amer­i­can peo­ple share. We want de­cent wages, you want a fair pen­sion, you want to be taken care of when you get hurt, you want a de­cent and safe work­ing en­vi­ron­ment. So when you look at pro­posed leg­is­la­tion in a place like In­di­ana that wants to call it some­thing called “Right to Work”, but you re­al­ize that…

DAVE ZIRIN: A tricky phrase, “right to work”.

DE­MAU­RICE SMITH: Very tricky phrase. Let’s just put the ham­mer on the nail. It’s un­true. This bill has noth­ing to do with a right to work. If folks in In­di­ana and that great leg­is­la­tion—-and they want to pass a bill that re­ally is some­thing called “Right to Work”, have a con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment that guar­an­tees every cit­i­zen a right to a job. That is a right to work. What this is, in­stead, is a right to en­force and to en­sure that or­di­nary work­ing peo­ple can’t get to­gether as a team, can’t or­ga­nize, can’t stand to­gether, and can’t fight or ne­go­ti­ate with man­age­ment on an even play­ing field.