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• Valerie Thomas on StarCaps, Congress and the CBA

  
  Dave Pear's Official Blog — Authority: 121
  Valerie Thomas posted a great analysis on the StarCaps case and how it relates to the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) and Congress. The NFL and its owners would love to have its powers expanded stealthily by trying to pull a fast one on Congress. We hope someone calls them on it before it happens!AAAThe NFL [...]
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• TVA Engineers Join IFPTE

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
  By a nearly 10-to-1 margin, members of the Tennessee Valley Authority Engineering Association ( EA ), employees at the nation’s largest public power supplier, voted to affiliate with the Professional and Technical Engineers union ( IFPTE ) today.  The EA includes more than 2,600 scientists, engineers, technicians ...
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• Former Astronaut Makes Plea Deal

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery as part of a plea bargain.
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• Report: Face of Unions More Diverse

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
  The face of the union movement has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. In 1983, more than half of all union workers were white men, few union workers had a college degree and nearly one-third were in manufacturing. Today, almost half are women, more than one-third have college degrees and only one in 10 work ...
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• Send Your Best Wishes to Fort Hood Hero

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      Sgt. Kimberly Munley         Sgt. Kimberly Munley is a bona fide hero, having risked her life to stop the alleged gunman who killed 13 people and injured 30 at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5. Munley shot the alleged assailant, Maj. Nidal Hasan, four times, despite being shot herself. She ...
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• REPORT: “A Joke” – MLS Player’s Union Threatens Strike, MLS Offers Modest Raising of the Salary Cap, Per Diems

  
  Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games — Authority: 139
  “The Pope” vs “The Don” – Players Union and League Square Off Things are certainly getting interesting in the Collective Bargaining Agreement Negotiations…. Courtesy of the Sports Business Journal: Major League Soccer players will strike next year if the league doesn’t improve on a ...
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• LabourStart’s Photo of the Year: Child Labor in Bangladesh

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      This photo of a Bangladeshi boy working in a shipbuilding factory is the winner of the 2009 LabourStart Photo of the Year contest.         Subscribers to the global online labor news service LabourStart selected K.M. Asad’s striking photo of a Bangladeshi boy working in a ...
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• Philadelphia Transit Workers End Strike, and More Bargaining News

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
  More than 5,100 members of the Transport Workers (TWU) ended their strike in Philadelphia this morning, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,200 subscribers. Union leaders can ...
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• Writers Guild Workshops Help Vets Tell Their Stories

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      The WGAE Foundation held the second Veterans Writing Workshop recently in San Antonio.         Returning veterans often have a hard time adjusting to civilian life and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) Foundation is helping them find an outlet to tell their stories. Since ...
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• Most Men Hate Taking A Woman to the Market

  
  Lainy's Musings — Authority: 121
  I once watched a funny Verisign Commercial in which popular singer and rapper, Wyclef Jean, played the lead role. A woman approached him with a piece of paper to sign. Wyclef Jean immediately signed without reading. After that, the woman turned the other side of the page. Guess what? It was a very long agreement that ...
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• Florida Activist Training Draws 200 Union Members

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      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: 658
  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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• Arcane Labor Law Counts the Votes of Non-Voters

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
        Imagine voting on a ballot initiative and knowing that everyone who didn’t show up at the polls still got to vote—because their votes would be counted as “No.” That’s the process for airline and railway workers when they vote on whether to join a union. The election results are tallied not ...
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• FLOC: Mexico Doing Nothing to Solve Organizer’s Murder

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      Human rights lawyer Leonel Rivero Rodriquez, left, and FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez         The murder two years ago of Rafael Santiago Cruz , an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee ( FLOC ) in Monterrey, Mexico, is part of a corrupt system of supplying immigrant ...
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• Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple

  
  Memory Writers Network — Authority: 405
  Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my ...
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• Workers Join AFSCME, Machinists and IUE-CWA in Recent Campaigns

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      New Mexico child care providers lobbied at the state Capitol earlier this year.         Some 2,600 family child care providers in New Mexico recently voted to join Child Care Providers Together (CCPT)/New Mexico, an AFSCME affiliate. Meanwhile, aerospace workers in Georgia voted for ...
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• Pat Quinn and the SEIU

  
  Moonage Political Webdream — Authority: 119
  Rod Blagojevich, among other things, was accused of pay to play with SEIU.  He got ran out of the governor’s office.On September 14, 2009, Pat Quinn released this video:Quinn immediately... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Merrilee Milstein Scholarship Helps Build Next Gen of Union Organizers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      Merrilee Milstein         The late Merrilee Milstein dedicated her life to building a better world for working people. Whether as a union organizer, union vice-president or deputy field director for the AFL-CIO, she inspired many people to join the union and progressive movements. When ...
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• Regulation of the Day 69: Owning More than Three Cats

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  A new ordinance in Dudley, Massachusetts makes it illegal to own more than three cats without government consent . (Hat tip: Drudge) Having solved all of the community’s other problems, regulators now have the time to turn their attention to what is apparently a spat between neighbors. One resident is upset that ...
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• Burmese Refugees Battle Oppression in U.S. Plant

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      Aung Oo, foreground, and Tim Hand, far right, are on strike in support of their co-workers at W&K Steel.         Aung Oo fled his native Burma with his family to escape the brutality, ethnic violence and repression of that country’s military dictatorship. After being allowed to ...
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