The Labour MP John McDonnell, a participant in the peaceful side of the protests, was excited: "This is the biggest workers' and students' demonstration in decades.
"If it were my case, I wouldn't take one," said Thomas Gleason, a former executive director of the board who is now a deputy executive director of the State Insurance Fund, New York's biggest workers' compensation insurer.
The union-organised March for the Alternative demonstration in 2011 was the biggest workers' protest for generations, and in the same year they co-ordinated the largest wave of industrial action since the 1926 general strike.
Spain today is home to some 18,000 co-operatives, a vibrant movement whose international face has often been that of Mondragon, one of the world's biggest workers' co-operatives.
He's a big worker and it's an honour to play with him.
Governing as a near vanished breed of moderate Republican, the very business-friendly Schwarzenegger cut costs with a big workers compensation reform that displeased many worker advocates.
Mr Zell has not said anything about giving workers a bigger say in running things.
United Healthcare Workers East, the biggest hospital workers' union, was muted.
