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• Thank Those Who Supported Health Care Reform

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 123
  AFL-CIO has a tool online for sending a quick message of thanks, or disappointment, depending on where youre reading this from: On Saturday, 220 members of the U.S. House of Representatives showed they are on the side of working families , not big insurance companies, when they voted for quality, affordable and ...
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• Government Union Rules

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 509
  AFL-CIO militant exposes memory malfunction"I cant think of a single situation where workers were permanently replaced on the public sector," said Gordon Pavy, national collective-bargaining director for the AFL-CIO in Washington.There is a notable exception, and it made labor history. In 1981, when members of the ...
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• Voices on both sides quick to sound after health care passage

  
  Blast: Boston's Online Magazine — Authority: 604
  With only a lone Republican crossing the line and nearly 40 Democrats going turncoat, the House of Representatives still voted, 220-215, tonight to pass a historic health care reform. Locally, Representative Edward J. Markey (D), issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a historic bill ...
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• EPA Takes First Step in Addressing Risk Posed by Toxic Pesticide Drift

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 414
  Agency announcement comes just weeks after groups petition for protectionsNovember 4, 2009  Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a first step today in addressing the harmful effects of pesticide drift – the toxic spray or vapor that travels from treated fields and into neighboring ...
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• Senate Finance Committee Climate Hearing Features Questionable Witnesses

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 500
  Elana Schor has the details on Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing . She writes: The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, part of the AFL-CIO, is testifying and did support the House climate bill that passed earlier this year. Another witness comes from Pacific Gas & Electric, a utility ...
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• Hell No! We Won’t Send Our Tax Dollars to China

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  Leo Gerard (photo: Frank Snyder for AFL-CIO via Flickr) Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs — 2,000 of them in ...
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• Clunker Claims and Cadillac Plans

  
  FactCheck.org — Authority: 132
  The AFL-CIO is running a print ad this week arguing that "the House bill gets it right" on health care. The Senate bill? Not so much, says the labor federation. Its beef is with the tax in the Senate Finance Committee bill on high-cost (a.k.a. "Cadillac") health care plans. Unions have come out against the tax, ...
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• Florida Activist Training Draws 200 Union Members

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Signing up for spcial activist training are (L-R) Beverly Curphey (IBEW), Claudie Pouncey (president of the Space Coast AFL-CIO) and Marita Palmer (AFGE).         Joshua Anijar, a zone coordinator for the Florida AFL-CIO , sends us this report on a recent activist training session ...
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• Workers Strike San Francisco’s Grand Hyatt Hotel

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  San Francisco hotel workers rallied in September for a fair contract.   Hotel workers began a three-day strike this morning at the Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco. The strike comes two weeks after members of UNITE HERE Local 2 voted by a 92 percent to 8 percent margin to authorize strikes at any of ...
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• Russell Simmons Joins Penn For Aqueduct Bid

  
  Southern Gaming — Authority: 130
  As Penn National competes with Wynn Resorts Ltd., Harrah Entertainment, MGM Mirage, Las Vegas-based Navegante Group and the Seminole Indians’ Hard Rock Casino Group for the Aqueduct gaming license, Russell Simmons teamed up with Penn National in hopes to give back to the community. LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Hip-Hop ...
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• New Report Details the Chilling Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Workers’ Rights

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  Our broken immigration system gives unscrupulous employers an incentive to hire unauthorized workers and exploit them—often resulting in depressed wages and working conditions for all workers in that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• >>Dr. Jerome Corsi, “America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression and Preserving USA Sovereignty”

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 441
  This is the complete text of Family security matters interview with Dr. Corsi author of the book “America for Sale”.   Good read.  BB November 3, 2009 Exclusive: FSM Interviews Dr. Jerome Corsi, Author of ‘America for Sale’ The Editors In America”>America for Sale: Fighting the New World ...
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• >>The Long Road to Obama (a guest blogger)

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 441
  Dear Friends and Readers, I found Ben’s post accurate and very well written.  I hope you enjoy the history lesson as well as I did.  BB   The short story … I have realized this country had been drifting to the left for many, many years.  I began to notice around 1988 when CNN started to substitute the ...
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• AFL-CIO Launches Sneak Attack on Nation’s Non-Union Railway and Airline Workers

  
  National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation - — Authority: 120
  AFL-CIO Launches Sneak Attack on Nation’s Non-Union Railway and Airline Workers National Right to Work opposes union officials’ quiet efforts to grease the skids to impose forced unionism at non-union workplaces read more
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• How Much Of The Economic Stimulus Package Should Be Spent On Coming Up With A Cure For Homosexuality?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 435
  My Pastor told us that the economy is tanking because of homosexuals. In light of this, we think it would be in our best interests to cure homosexuality. As of today, having a strong faith in Christ is the ONLY known remedy for homosexuality. But, we think it would be great to [...]
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• >>$92,000 Per Job Saved or Created

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 441
  $92 K Per Job Saved or Created While Obama and the Democrats  and MSM is cheering the slight uptick in the economy they are failing to fill in the blanks as to just what caused the uptick.  It was indeed the Stimulus money.  Cash for Clunkers  sold a lot of cars; foreign cars and Fords,  not Chrysler or GM of ...
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• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

  
  Liberty's Life Line — Authority: 108
    The White House released a list the other day of visitors.  Topping the list, in terms of frequency of visits was Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  If the name of that union is not familiar to you, it is often closely linked to ACORN, the discredited group of community ...
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• Sweatshops Alive and Well

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 127
  New Orleans In the prevailing wisdom and the back pats that we like to sometimes hope are well earned and deserved, in speaking with students on university campuses about organizing chapters to support ACORN International’s organizing in various countries I have occasionally used cited the effectiveness of the ...
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• AFL-CIO President Trumka: Union-Blue Dog Relationship Changing, Filibustering Health Care Un-American

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  The other night, a group of bloggers got to sit down with Richard Trumka, the newly elected President of the AFL-CIO, as part of the Building the New Economy conference. In the meeting he focused on how the economic engine of the last 30 years, essentially debt-financed consumer spending, asset bubbles and Wall ...
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• A Manufacturing Middle-Class Still Matters

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  One thing that has been lost in the shuffle through decades of free trade zealously is the simple fact that it matters where things are made. With the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs and the closures of hundreds of thousands of factories the ability of our country to innovate and to make the products we consume ...
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