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• The Benefits of Joining a Trade Union

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 458
  Whats in it for me?, people would inquire. There are a few people who think fighting for a cause to be unnecessary. They are usually just content to sit around and allow other people to fight for the causes that are crucial for the betterment of the lives of people. This kind of behavior is downright irresponsible. ...
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• Labor Boss Says He Hopes to ‘Take the Corporate Community and Its Greed Out of the Picture’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer.  Speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. ...
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• The conservative definition of a union thug

  
  Blogging Blue — Authority: 556
  union thug [un⋅ion thug] - noun Any labor union member who dares to voice an opinion which may run contrary to any belief held by conservatives.
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• The Lowest Entry-Level Job in Hollywood

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 519
  A portion of the backlot at Universal City Studios. my home for eighteen months I was 23 years old, at loose ends, per usual, had hammed it up in Junior High School plays, my mother had been a showgirl during the 1940s, I looked okay and I lived in Los Angeles. Clearly, the cinema was aching for my presence. I ...
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• Union Retirees Celebrate Labor History in New Play

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
        In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, two Missouri union retirees are stepping back into history to look at the lessons of the Great Depression in a new play. This weekend and next weekend, “ 1937! One Hell of a Year ” is playing at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas ...
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• An Interesting Part of the Labor Market: The Work Sharing Program

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  It was disheartening to hear the recent statistics showing payrolls fell by 190,000 workers last month and the U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2 percent. These numbers have been creeping up for some time now, and families nationwide are hurting from lost jobs, lost benefits, and lost sense of self. There had to ...
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• Napolitano: Legal status for illegals will help national security, labor unions

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that providing some kind of legal citizenship pathway and status to illegal immigrants -- which critics say is amnesty -- is key to U.S. national security. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions ...
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• ‘AMERICA’S LEAST WANTED’ Coming to Television

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Twenty-two years ago, John Walsh launched “AMERICA’S MOST WANTED,” a ground-breaking television program that has helped take down more than 1,050 dangerous fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children.  As explained here, it was not the career he envisioned for himself; rather, it’s genesis lies in ...
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• Is Big Labor asking too much in Philadelphia as Union bosses instigate strike at tax payers expense disrupting the ability of people to get to their respected jobs?

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 490
  Related: Only a government ran tax payer funded US Post office facing massive debt plus its union would pay employees to do nothing and Union Workers at Big Three Automakers average $73 an hour compared to Toyota at only $47.60, Honda $43 and Nissan $42!!! and watch toward the end of the video that this has more ...
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• Who are Union Members? New Study Shows “The Changing Face of Labor”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Hey folks! I’m filling in for Tula’s weekly labor column this week.  Today, I wanted to talk about a new report out this week on the demographics of the labor movement. As you might suspect, with an increase in corporate power came a decrease in the number of union members in the country.  In the last couple ...
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• Obama Administration Hits Brakes on Project Labor Agreement

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 665
  The Obama administration this week called off bidding on what would have been a union-friendly federal construction project bidding process, in response to a contractor complaint over its inclusion of a project labor agreement (PLA), which would disadvantage nonunion contractors, reports The Washington Times ...
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• Monitoring Arab reform

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Egypt’s Islamist opposition is facing leadership challenges, writes Ibrahim el Houdaiby. Increasingly influential Salafist/Qutbi forces are striving to marginalize relatively moderate figures like Essam el-Erian and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.Obsessed with efforts to engineer Gamal Mubarak’s succession to his ...
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• SEIU’s California Scheming V

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 665
  The bitter ongoing fight between the national leadership of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the former leadership of a SEIU Oakland, California, health care workers local has taken an even nastier turn. Early this year, SEIU, under the leadership of Andy Stern, forced a merger between the Oakland ...
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• Obama Announces White House Jobs Summit

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
        This morning, President Obama announced he will invite labor leaders, business executives, small business owners, economists and other financial experts to a special White House summit on jobs next month. Obama says the summit will explore ways to slow the loss of jobs and quicken the pace of job ...
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• Jobless Claims Try to Break 500K

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 688
  The Labor Department has just reported its weekly jobless claims data.  The new preliminary report puts last week’s initial jobless claims at 502,000, down 12,000 on an adjusted basis from the week before.  Bloomberg had an open estimate of 512,000.  This is one of the lowest readings for 2009, but this figure ...
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• Boston Globe: Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started. Read it all .
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• Applied Materials (AMAT): We Made Money But You’re Fired

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 688
  Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) can be added to the long list of American companies that made a profit in the last quarter and then fired a significant part of their workforces. It is a disturbing trend that will make it harder for the US economy to recover.Applied Materials said it expected its fiscal year sales ...
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• More nontraditional funding of journalism: Labor unions funding news outlets

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 557
  David Westphal at the Online Journalism Review reports that labor unions are funding two new news organizations, a move he reminds us is not unprecedented in the history of news:Just in the last several months, two labor unions in southern California have provided six-figure funding for very different kinds of ...
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• Zimbabwe arrests threaten power-sharing pact?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The arrest and detention of Lovemore Matombo, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, and three union colleagues highlights the resilience of hard-line security service forces within President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF.The arrests are the latest in a series of attacks on labor, student and other civil ...
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• "State Democrats facing revolt by labor"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 442
  Andrew Garber (Seattle Times): State Democratic lawmakers have a revolt on their hands among major labor groups that provide the party crucial support during elections.--State Democratic lawmakers have a revolt on their hands among major labor groups that provide the party crucial support during elections. The ...
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