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• Water Babies Video Tops List of Most-Viewed Posts

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  I like to describe this blog as offering a mix of humor, politics, culture and capitalism.  In reviewing this blog’s Top 10 posts of 2009, I found humor attracted the most page views.  Topping this year’s Top 10 list was a July 2 post, Evian Water Babies Commercial — Wow!, which featured the incredible video ...
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• A Plea for the Employee Free Choice Act

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 484
  The year 1984 marked the fiftieth anniversary of organized labor’s victory in the great 1934 West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes. On that occasion, Harry Bridges, hero of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Stanford: Don’t Believe the Spin on Unions in Canada

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
        In a new column in the Globe and Mail , economist Jim Stanford looks at the way Big Business lobbyists use myths about Canada to block policy changes in the United States.  While much of this disinformation is aimed at health care reform, Stanford notes, corporate front groups and pundits also are ...
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• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce named Scrooge of the Year

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 128
  The results have been tabulated and the winner of the - actually loser - 2009 National Scrooge of the Year is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, thanks to its narrow, radical agenda advocating for anti-worker, profit-focused solutions to the broken health care, labor, and environmental systems. The annual contest for ...
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• Debunking Dumb Polling and Even Worse Reporting on Employee Free Choice

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 729
  photo: Bob.Fornal via Flickr A corporate front group funded polls in Nevada and Colorado to show opposition to the group’s only issue: the Employee Free Choice Act. And of course, media outlets not only printed the results as unchallenged fact, but failed to do the most basic fact check on the poll’s questions ...
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• Shuler to White House: Let’s Revive Manufacturing

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
  AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler joined Vice President Joe Biden and other leaders at yesterday’s meeting of the White House Middle Class Task Force. The topic: restoring our crippled manufacturing sector. The White House Middle Class Task Force issued a report yesterday detailing the challenges facing ...
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• Trumka Answers Your Questions, Lays Out Economic Vision

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
         In a great live Web discussion yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka answered a wide range of questions on the nation’s economic crisis, setting out a vision for short-term job creation and long-term progress toward a fairer economy. Trumka touched on trade, green jobs, the challenges ...
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• Worried about EFCA? 3 ways to make sure it won’t affect you

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Employers shouldn’t wait around to see what happens with the Employee Free Choice Act.  Even if Congress makes it easier to form unions, improving benefits communication today will help make sure your staff is satisfied with what you’re offering — and keep organizers at bay. Here are three things worth ...
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• GUESS WHO HE’S NOT TALKING ABOUT…

  
  The Writing On The Wal — Authority: 136
  With Walmart temp workers hired for the holiday season getting their pink slips two weeks early , card check a dusty echo somewhere in the bowels of Congress (pun intended) and our jobless recovery in full swing, guess where Gary Trudeau goes. Feck. Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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• Labor’s Next Best Hope: NLRB Rulemaking

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 128
  by Dmitri Iglitzin Dmitri Iglitzin Labor’s number one legislative priority, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), would enshrine the principle of majority signup (allowing workers to form unions based on a written showing of majority support), mandate binding arbitration for first contracts where the ...
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• Melinda Gopher is seeking the State of Montanas sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

  
  Montana News by the People for the People — Authority: 123
  " Melinda Gopher , 44, an Ojibwe / Blackfeet from Missoula, Mo ntana is seeking the State of Montanas sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives . While many glass ceilings have been shattered; a Native American woman has yet to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Gophers running as a progressive ...
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• Human Rights Day: Freedom to Form Unions Being Denied

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
        Dec. 10 is International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Although much progress has been made to ensure human rights in the past 61 years, Sheldon Friedman, research coordinator for the AFL-CIO’s Voice@Work campaign, reminds us ...
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• LV business leader encouraged by events at jobs summit

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 135
  While not ready to declare Barack Obama a pro-business president, the head of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce gave a positive review to a White House jobs summit on Thursday. Chamber President Kara Kelley said Obama and top members of his administration stressed they were open to re-evaluating federal rules on ...
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• Nurses Unions Merge to Gain Greater Voice in Health Care

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
      Delegates to the founding convention of National Nurses United vote unanimously for the merger.         Delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United ( NNU ) yesterday created the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history and ...
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• Voting for the 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award for the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year is underway

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 128
  The nominations are complete and voting for the 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award for the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year. National Jobs with Justice was seeking nominations for its 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award until Dec. 7, and the voting is underway for the top enemies of ...
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• Chronicling the Thirty Years Class War: a review of Steve Early

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 128
  by Michael Hirsch A Review of Steve Early, Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class  War at Home (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Saying there is no class struggle is like denying gravity exists.  Corporate America knows the stakes in a class war.  So does Steve Early, and so ...
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• California Union Members Host First-Ever Economic Recovery Summit

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
        California Labor Federation Communications Director Steve Smith tells us how California union members are taking the lead in moving the state toward economic recovery. The solution to California’s unprecedented economic crisis can be summed up in three words: jobs, jobs, jobs. That was the ...
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• Workers Give Rite Aid CEO the Raspberry for Union-Busting

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
      Rite Aid worker Tom Brown (far right), ILWU organizer Mary Winzig and supporters confront Rite Aid CEO and execs.         Workers at Rite Aid’s Lancaster, Calif., distribution center have been fighting for justice and a voice at work for years. Here’s the latest report on their ...
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• Women’s Solidarity Breakfast Highlights Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
      Roselyn Maina         Roselyn Maina wasn’t about to settle for doing first-class work but being treated like a second-class worker. So she and her co-workers at the Budget car rental operation at Boston’s Logan Airport joined together, and despite strong management opposition, ...
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• EFCA: Keep Up the Fight

  
  Edwize — Authority: 420
  If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if management sees fit, be paid fairly so that, provided they are not ingrates or spendthrifts, they will do just fine being one paycheck ahead of eviction and the need to forage through dumpsters to find ...
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