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Alexander: Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan offers too little, too late |
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by Stewart A. Alexander, stewartalexander4paf (nospam) ca.rr.com |
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With less than 10 days in office, President Barack Obama has indicated that his $825 billion economic stimulus package will energize the U.S. economy and create future jobs for more than three million Americans. Socialists nationwide are rejecting this new call for deficit spending and are calling for programs that will meet the short and long term needs of the nation and create immediate employment for the millions of working people that are unemployed or under-employed. |
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30 Jan 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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Hope and Change for Low-Wage Workers |
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by Rev. William Sinkford, bsinkford (nospam) uua.org |
 On March 18, 1968, two weeks before his murder, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis getting part-time income." He said, "A living wage should be the right of all working Americans."
What would Dr. King have thought of a $6.55 federal minimum wage in 2009, when the 1968 minimum wage is worth about $10 in today’s dollars? What would he have made of a minimum wage that is less adequate for the basic necessities of life than it was 40 years ago? |
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Workers Understand Democracy, Say Pass Employee Free Choice Act |
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by Employee Free Choice Act NOW!, |
 Almost eight in 10 Americans support legislation that would make it easier for workers to join or organize labor unions, according to a new national survey from Peter D. Hart and Associates released this week.
The opinion poll was designed to gather public views on the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress that would impose tough sanctions against employers who harass or fire workers who try to join unions, reduce federal red tape on certifying unions, and give workers the choice about whether they want to vote on their union by card check or by secret ballot. |
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10 Jan 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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Hundreds in Mass kick off campaign for passage of Employee Free Choice Act |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 On International Human Rights Day hundreds of community and labor leaders gathered to make the link between workers' rights and human rights. The Massachusetts campaign for Employee Free Choice Act will tie broad economic recovery to passage of landmark labor legislation. |
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11 Dec 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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Bank Of America, We're Still Breaking Up! |
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by Rising Tide Boston, |
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Rising Tide Boston wishes to announce that the group will continue its part in the widespread campaign to pressure Bank of America to drop its involvement with the coal industry, despite the bank's recent release of a new "Coal Policy". We view this so-called policy as a PR gimmick intended to distract the public from Bank of America's ongoing funding of the coal industry. Bank of America's Coal Policy fails to commit to a timeline or any concrete action to halt their financing of mountain top removal coal mining, and the alternatives the bank pledges to support are not solutions at all. |
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11 Dec 2008
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Filed under: Announcement / Environment : Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Social Welfare |
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Workers Struggle with Intimidation after ICE Raids in New Bedford |
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by Sofia JarrinT, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Over a year after the immigration raids in New Bedford, the working conditions at Eagle Industries (formely known as Michael Bianco) have continued to worsen as workers struggle for labor rights. In an interview with Maria Gonsalves, lead organizer from UNITE HERE, she talked about how the new factory owners have used intimidation tactics against the workers who have tried to organize there.
LISTEN: Interview with Maria Gonsalvez, lead organizer with UNITE here, can be downloaded here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/17075 |
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20 Nov 2008
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Organizing : Race |
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Spread the Wealth of Wall Street, Big Oil, Tax-Evader Fox! |
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by Doug Cupertino, |
 The fascist Fox News of Rupert Murdoch has been whipping up a mania and false fear against socialism, Marxism and “spreading the wealth” But it is protecting only its own tax evasion and the speculative profit, predatory lending and price-gouging of Wall Street and Big Oil.
Led by rabid fascists Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, Fox News is conjuring up a false phobia and paranoia against socialism and Marxism. Frothing in the mouth, Fox right-wing commentators are spreading the false fear that socialism and Marxism will grab income from the working-class and middle-class. |
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Local leaders hold a dialogue with elected officials on Welcoming MA initiative to reaffirm respect for immigrants |
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by Centro Presente, |
 Somerville, MA. Community Organizations, local businesses and communities of faith held a dialogue with elected officials in Somerville as part of a week of action to promote the Welcoming MA campaign. This campaign is a statewide initiative to affirm Massachusetts as a Commonwealth that welcomes and respects the dignity of all people. There will be more than thirty actions and events happening all over the state in support of the Welcoming, MA Campaign. "This Campaign is really about saying we want to have a civil dialogue about issues that relate to our immigrant friends and neighbors, and not resort to name-calling and stereotyping," said Danny LeBlanc, CEO of the Somerville Community Corporation. "I believe that those of us born in the U.S. have at least that minimum obligation with respect to how we treat newcomers to our country," stated LeBlanc. |
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20 Oct 2008
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor |
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