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Pensions Aren’t the Problem for State Budgets found in Economy This is a crosspost by AFSCME President Lee Saunders from Huffington Post. Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, the Pravd... [more]
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Poverty Underlies Education System’s Shortcomings found in Legislation & Politics Here’s a letter to the editor in The Hill by Diann Woodard, president of the School Administrators (AFSA), the only national edu... [more]
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Rep. Miller Asks Justice Dept. for Investigation of Possible Coercion of NLRB Member found in Legislation & Politics Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, asked the Department of J... [more]
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Overall Union Membership Notches Up from 2010 to 2011 found in Organizing & Bargaining Overall union membership increased by 49,000 from 2010 to 2011, including 15,000 new 16- to 24-year-old members, according to ne... [more]
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282 Cablevision Workers Join CWA found in Collective Bargaining Yesterday, 282 Cablevision technicians and dispatchers in Brooklyn voted to join the Communications Workers of America (CW... [more]
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Labor, Management Partner to Create Jobs in Wash. State found in Economy Here’s a bipartisan solution: Labor and management working together to create jobs. In Washington State, where co... [more]
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Apple’s Profit Skyrockets, Workers Die at Its Factories found in Corporate Greed Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times... [more]
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Gov. Scott Set to Hand Florida’s Prisons to Corporate America found in In the States Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, a national resource center on privatization and responsi... [more]
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China’s ‘Competitive Advantage’: Serfdom found in Corporate Greed A much-discussed report in the Sunday New York Times on why iPhones are made in China highlights the transition of Apple guru St... [more]
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Walker’s State of the State Rings Hollow to Many Wisconsinites found in In the States This is a cross-post by Karen Hickey, communications director at the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. Amid John Doe investigati... [more]
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The Cablevision 99% Votes Today found in Collective Bargaining Today, 285 Brooklyn-based Cablevision workers—the Cablevision 99%—will vote in a election for union representation. According to... [more]
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Breaking: Indiana House Passes RTW found in In the States Moments ago, the Indiana state House passed a “right to work” for less bill by 55 to 41. The issue now moves to the ... [more]
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Why the Tucson Ethnic Studies Ban Matters found in In the States Donna Gratehouse, who blogs at DemocraticDiva and elsewhere on all things Arizona, sends us this. Hundreds of high school studen... [more]
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It’s Time for Protection Against Deadly Silica Dust found in Legislation & Politics More than 300 scientists, doctors and workplace safety experts are asking President Obama to step in to speed much-needed protec... [more]
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Indiana House Voting Now on RTW found in Collective Bargaining Thousands of working Hoosiers are chanting, “No Right to Work,” while the Indiana House sets to vote on passage of a... [more]
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Annual COPE Authorization Cards found in Political News news For years in local 275 we have had a voluntary Committee on Political Education (COPE) checkoff on our referrals and auto dedu... [More]
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Websit Upgrades & Login found in General News news So far the new website is up, running, and working quite well. Please let us know of any issues you have so we can get those a... [More]