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• in Politics
  American Politician's Guide to Getting Work Done
  This is a quick reference for American politicians who have forgotten how to solve problems.
  by smartcomputing / on Apr 9, 2011
• in Politics
  Mr. Peabody Explains the Death of Organized Labor
  Set the WayBack for Election Night 2010!
  by parkypundit / on Feb 26, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “labor unions”

 

• Rally For Livable Wages in Washington — The 9th Most Expensive U.S. City

  
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  Did you know that Washington, DC is the 9th most expensive American city to live in ? Did you also know that thousands of private sector workers whose jobs are supported by taxpayer dollars don’t earn enough to live in the city where they work ? Tomorrow, those workers are rallying for livable wages, in ...
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• Quinn Says Illinois Lawmakers Could Make History This Session

  
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  News links:  Associated Press Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says state lawmakers could make some historic moves by the end of this legislative session if they so choose.  Today, Quinn urged state legislators to pass a marriage equality bill that is ...
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• Thomas Perez: Big Labors pick for Labor Secretary

  
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  I strongly suspect that Big Labor has muted their opposition to Obama crony Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary in exchange for putting radical lawyer Thomas Perez in charge of the Labor Department. Here is more on Perez from the Wall Street Journal-- paid subscription required. Labor Secretary nominee Thomas ...
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• Progressive Breakfast

  
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  MORNING MESSAGE: A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “Just in the past decade Congress has cut $1 billion from youth jobs programs, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. And that is at a time when even before the Great Recession youth ...
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• A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work

  
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  I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy, a community activist (and later D.C. City Council member) who operated out of what legendary Washington Post writer William Raspberry described as a “tiny, hopelessly cluttered quonset hut” in the Deanwood ...
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• Senate committee moves toward vote on immigration

  
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  The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Satisfaction and Smiles in an Unequal World

  
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  If President Obama played basketball with the king of Bhutan, would the world have a better shot at becoming a happier place? What makes us happy? A simple question. In America, we’ve been asking it ever since 1776, the year we declared for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Back in those days, ...
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• This week in the War on Workers: New York City Council passes paid sick leave, 45-3

  
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  New York City is catching up to most of the rest of the world. It took a long struggle , but the New York City Council finally voted on paid sick leave this week, passing a compromise bill overwhelmingly. And I do mean overwhelmingly: The vote was 45 to three. Mayor Michael Bloomberg objects to the bill, but that is ...
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• Women Speak Out On CPS School Closings & Immigration Reform As Mothers Day Weekend Begins (VIDEO)

  
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  Including the voice of women, and particularly mothers, in pending issues across the city, state, and country is increasingly important, according to several organizations which saw the start of Mother’s Day weekend as an opportunity to advocate for their causes. The Chicago Foundation for Women on Friday joined ...
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• Death threats force ‘Iran’s Lech Walesa’ into exile

  
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  Death threats from government security services have forced Iran’s most prominent labor union leader into exile. Mansur Osanlu, the head of the Tehran bus workers’ union, told RFE/RL’s Golnaz Esfandiari that the Islamic republic is becoming more repressive “day by …
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• Fast Food Workers Strike Again, In Detroit

  
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  I told you so. When minimum wage workers in Chicago, IL went on strike , I said that the movement to raise the minimum wage would not go away. When fast food workers in St. Louis, MO walked off the job , demanding better pay and better treatment, I predicted that the movement for a livable wage would soon be coming ...
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• Next Week’s Opportunity To Get Our Labor Board Operating Again

  
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  President Obama has nominated five people to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Two are Republicans. All are waiting for confirmation by the Senate. Let your Senators know these nominees should be confirmed so the NLRB can get back to work. What Is The NLRB? The NLRB is the agency that “safeguards ...
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• Michigan teachers’ union fails in lawsuit to block dues change

  
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  A Sixth Circuit panel declines to strike down a state law under which public schools will no longer withhold union dues from teachers’ salaries. The Michigan Education Association had claimed that Public Act 53 interfered with its First Amendment right to speak. [ David Shepardson, Detroit News ] Tweet ...
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• Fast food strike wave spreads again, now to Detroit

  
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  As St. Louis fast food workers were going back to work from their Wednesday evening to Thursday strike, Detroit became the latest city to be hit by this springs wave of fast food strikes. Organizers report that more than 100 St. Louis workers joined the strike, and Detroit is expected to be bigger ; in fact, Josh ...
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• Tick-Tick-Tick: Do 60 Minutes And America’s Billionaires Want Us to Beg?

  
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  If you’re a jobless person looking for food or a wounded vet who needs health care, “60 Minutes” has a solution: Beg a billionaire for it. That was part of the powerful, if covert, message behind last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” broadcast. The rest of Sunday night’s message, which tracks closely with the ...
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• The ‘Party Of No’ Acts Out Again, Won’t Even Vote on EPA Nominee

  
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  Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was the equivalent of the six-year-old, willful ...
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• Farm Workers Fired for Leaving Fields During California Wildfire

  
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  Okay, so here is a story that’s bound to get my right-wing-leaning, anti-union, anti-immigrant pro-slavery readers full of joy. According to reports, fifteen farm workers in California were fired for walking off the job earlier than they were supposed to last week. Why did they leave, and why did they expect to ...
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• Dual ‘Salafist jihadist’ threat to Tunisia’s transition

  
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    Tunisia’s major parties may have ended a months-old stalemate by negotiating a provisional agreement on the country’s future constitution, but the country’s democratic transition faces an overlapping threat from violent jihadists and ultra-conservative Salafists, say analysts.   “We have ...
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• Illinois Senate Passes Union-Backed Pension Plan

  
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  The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to send a union-supported pension reform bill to the House, leaving lawmakers with two competing proposals for dealing with the nations worst state pension crisis just weeks before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn.
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• D.C. Circuit Rebukes NLRB Activism, Again

  
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  One of the Obama National Labor Relations Board’s payoffs to Big Labor bosses was a rule requiring that employers provide notice to employees of their rights to unionize . The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that that requirement violated the National Labor Relations Act and the First Amendment, and ...
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