Are these US protests significant?

[Gandalf]

Miles are you talking about the protests in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio over public sector union's collective bargaining rights? A couple weeks behind but other than those I can't think of any major protests that have been going on.

Yes, all of those.

I'm not that far behind as I know protests are happening, but just haven't given the time to finding out the ins and outs of it all. It was being suggested that this is an expanding thing and that got me curious, just thought I would ask on here first. It seems they aren't such a big deal judging by the mild reactions on here.