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Amplio debate en el tercer día del Curso Político-Sindical del ESNA‏

David Montgomery, 1927-2011‏

Nov. 30 Roundup: U.S. in Solidarity with U.K. to Save Pensions‏
Dean Baker | Trends Show Women Losing Access to Jobs

Declining Labor Force Participation Leads to Sharp Drop in Unemployment

Black Unemployment Rate Was 15.5% in November; an Increase from October‏

Jobless Rate Falls, but Many Jobless Give Up‏

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Amplio debate en el tercer día del Curso Político-Sindical del ESNA

2 de diciembre de 2011, Tijuana México-El primer tema abordado estuvo relacionado con los procesos integracionistas en América, de manera especial el ALBA, acuerdo éste que ha representado evidentes ventajas en las relaciones comerciales de los países que la integran.

Se destaco cuanto de solidaridad y complementariedad tiene este proyecto, que ha contribuido a resolver problemas sociales acumulados, en sensibles esferas como la salud, la educación, el deporte y otras muchas, que han propiciado elevar en alguna medida, el bienestar de los pueblos que la integran.

La próxima creación de la CELAC representa un paso superior hacia una integración regional completa, sin la presencia por primera  vez, de Los EEUU y Canadá.

Un tema que suscitó el máximo de atención, fue la situación política de México, de manera especial en que hace el movimiento sindical, por lograr la necesaria unidad de acción, para contrarrestar la aplicación desmedida de políticas neo-liberales.

Se destacó el nivel de criminalidad que hoy sacude la sociedad mexicana, que incluye a los dirigentes sindicales y sociales que se oponen a los dictados del gobierno.

El último tema de la jornada, fue la presentación de cuanto se hace en Cuba, en la actualización del modelo económico y el papel que le corresponde jugar almovimiento sindical.

Se destaco que a pesar del procero de disponibilidad que hoy se realiza de disponibilidad que hoy se realiza en el país, ningún trabajador quedará abandonado a su muerte, todo lo contrario, se buscan soluciones de empleo, tanto en el sector estatal, como en el sector no estatal. 

Quedó definido que los cambios y transformaciones que hoy se hacen en Cuba, tienecomo único objetivo consolidar la Revolución Cubana y el Socialismo.

Como conclusión del tema se aprobó una declaración que insta al Gobierno de los EEUU a liberar los cinco héroes cubanos, aún como intensificar las acciones solidarias en todo el mundo por la excarcelación de los antiterroristas cubanos.

Declaración de los participantes en el Curso Político Sindical del ESNA (Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America) efectuado en la ciudad de Tijuana, México, de solidaridad con los 5 cubanos presos en los EEUU por luchar contra el terrorismo.

Al analizar nuestra realidad política, social y económica no puede pasar inadvertido el hecho de que los cubanos Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino y René González han cumplido 13 años de detención en cárceles norteamericanas, con sentencias excesivas y prejuiciadas, por cargos que no fueron probados y carentes de legitimidad.

El pueblo cubano clama por su libertad y regreso a su patria. La comunidad internacional ha expresado su solidaridad con la libertad de los cinco patriotas cubanos.

Nosotros, hombres y mujeres comprometidos con la transformación de nuestras sociedades para lograr el mayor grado de justicia, dignidad e igualdad,

DECLARAMOS:

Reconocemos los logros sociales de la Revolución Cubana, su solidaridad para con los pueblos de nuestra América y su resistencia ante las agresiones imperialistas.

Repudiamos y rechazamos los cargos, procesos judiciales y sentencias que se han impuesto a los cinco patriotas cubanos, quienes han sostenido que sus actividades en suelo norteamericanos fueron para combatir los actos de terrorismo planeadas contra Cuba desde los Estados Unidos.

Exigimos al gobierno de Estados Unidos la excarcelación inmediata e incondicional de los cinco patriotas cubanos.

Continuaremos desarrollando y fortaleciendo las campañas de liberación de los 5 patriotas cubanos, en nuestros países, dando a conocer los detalles e injustas acciones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para impedir el regreso a su patria, aun cuando se cumplan las sentencias, como es el caso del patriota René González.

Responsabilizamos al gobierno de los Estados Unidos por cualquier acto que ponga en riesgo la seguridad y salud del patriota René González a quien se le priva de su familia y de poder regresar a su Patria, aún cumplida su injusta condena.

Exigimos al Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Sr. Barack Obama, que atienda el reclamo del Gobierno y pueblo cubano para que los cinco patriotas cubanos sean liberados de manera inmediata y sin condiciones.

Reconocemos que el Sr. Barack Obama tiene el poder político y legal para actuar y mediante el indulto incondicional otorgar la completa libertad a los cinco patriotas cubanos. Que no existe impedimento legal para que ello se haga luego de 13 años de encarcelamiento.

Esta declaración será entregada en la oficina del Presidente de Estados Unidos y en las embajadas de Estados Unidos y de otros países que consideremos propio al regreso a nuestros países de origen.

De igual manera propiciaremos su divulgación por todos los medios posibles para fortalecer y apoyar las actividades en favor de la excarcelación inmediata de los cinco patriotas cubanos.

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David Montgomery, 1927-2011 

Jon Wiener 

December 2, 2011 - 5:30pm ET

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164954/david-montgomery-1927-2011

David Montgomery, one of the founders of the "New Labor
History" in the US, who inspired a generation of
activists and historians, died Dec. 2. He was 84. David
lived a remarkable life: blacklisted as a union
organizer in the 1950s, twenty years later he was named
Farnam Professor of History at Yale. Even as Farnam
Professor he remained a deeply political animal,
working with local labor activists, black and white, in
New Haven and elsewhere.

I'll never forget David's story about how he became an
academic. A communist labor organizer in the darkest
days of McCarthyism, he spent "every single day through
the 1950s" in factories - working primarily with the
machinists' union in St. Paul from 1951 to 1960. He
started at Minneapolis Honeywell; the FBI got him
fired. But, as he explained in a wonderful 1981
interview for the Radical History Review with Mark
Naison and Paul Buhle, in order to get rid of him the
company had to close the entire division -- because of
the workers' sense that "an injury to one was an injury
to all."

He moved to smaller shops, always organizing, and
always the FBI followed him and got him fired.
"Finally," he told me, "the only job I could get was in
a shop with only one other worker. I organized that guy
into the union - and the FBI didn't get me fired."

At this point, he said, "I realized they had me beat,
so I quit and became a historian."

He enrolled in grad school at the University of
Minnesota and got a PhD in 1962. The next year he got a
job as an assistant professor at the University of
Pittsburgh. In 1967 Knopf published his book Beyond
Equality, a pathbreaking study of the labor movement in
the era of Reconstruction. Where historians focused on
Reconstruction as a time when the North imposed its
will on the white South, Montgomery showed how workers
raised issues of economic power and economic justice in
the North. Class conflict in the North, he concluded,
"was the submerged shoal on which Radical dreams
foundered."

I've taught Montgomery's book 1987 book Fall of the
House of Labor many times, and it remains a rich and
compelling work. While most of us preferred to focus on
the glory days of the labor movement in the 1930s and
1940s, David looked long and hard at the defeat of the
labor movement between the 1890s and the 1920s. He
started here with a vivid picture of the variety of
workplace experiences in America at the turn of the
century, from unskilled workers on the docks to the
elite iron makers; he showed how these diverse groups
united to form the socialist party of 1912, which won a
higher proportion of the presidential vote (for Eugene
Debs) than any left-wing party before or since; and he
asked why this immense and powerful organization did
not survive the repression of the Red Scare and return
to life in the 1920s.

David was always an organizer for labor and civil
rights groups. When Yale's clerical workers went on
strike in 1984 for union recognition, "he was the
inspirational leader for faculty supporting locals
34/35 before, during, and after the strike," says
Jean-Christophe Agnew of the Yale history department. 
"David's firmness about solidarity and the honoring of
picket-lines emboldened many faltering colleagues,
especially the more vulnerable junior faculty. He was
a rock."

In his Radical History Review interview, published in
the Pantheon book Visions of History by MARHO, the
Radical Historians' Organization, Naison and Buhle
asked him about his days in the Communist Party. The
good thing about the CP, he said, even in the 1950s,
was that "more than any other organization of the time,
it was possible to link Marxist analysis to effective
daily action." And the CP was always working to unite
black and white workers. The bad thing about the CP, he
said, was that the intellectual life of the Party was
"stifling"; the creative work done by communist writers
always came after they left the Party.

He quit in 1957, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary -
but mostly because at the point "the Party had become
virtually irrelevant to the workers of America."
Minnesota at the time had a non-communist labor
movement and a peace and civil rights movement, and 
"there I felt at home and could act without breaking
stride."

David Montgomery concluded his Radical History Review
interview, "In this country, where the talents needed
to run a humane society are all around us, what we need
is not a single party but many self-activated centers
of popular struggle and a variety of political
initiatives. And all those centers of activity need to
learn from history."

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Nov. 30 Roundup: U.S. in Solidarity with U.K. to Save Pensions
Like their U.S. counterparts, British officials want to slash public worker pensions to cut public deficits — even though, like Social Security in the U.S., British pension funds are financially sound. On Nov. 30, two million British workers walked out on strike in the United Kingdom, and in the U.S., the National Nurses United held rallies in six cities to show solidarity. Below are reports on the day's actions.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
1. Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions “Across the Pond” from 2 million striking British workers
2. See and Share the U.S. Solidarity Roundup Video and a Flickr Photo Slideshow
3. Read Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011
4. This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation
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1. Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions “Across the Pond” from 2 million striking British workers
As more than 2 million nurses, teachers, paramedics and other workers held the largest strike in over three decades across Great Britain, National Nurses United, joined by other union members, held energetic support rallies in six U.S. cities to show solidarity with their embattled British counterparts. —NNU Blog, 11/30/11

Los Angeles Rally - See and share more photos on our Flickr site.
2. See and Share the U.S. Solidarity Roundup Video and a Flickr Photo Slideshow
Take a look at the NNU roundup video from U.S.-U.K. solidarity events in six cities on Nov. 30. Then click the SHARE button under the video to post it on your Facebook or Twitter pages. Please also see photos of U.S. rallies outside the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, DC, and consulates in Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Again just click on the SHARE buttons!
3. Read Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011
"I stand with you in spirit. I am unable to attend a rally. As a Registered Nurse for the past 43 years, and as a Human Being on this planet, we all deserve respect. I myself face living in poverty at retirement. Can't we all support each other? I think we can. Keep up the fight!" Read some of the comments from U.S. nurses and allies posted to U.K. nurses and public workers. —NNU Blog, 11/30/11
4. This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation
United Kingdom--It's not just the scale of the strike, though, but its breadth, from head teachers to school cleaners in every part of the country, that has set it apart. Most of those taking action were women, and the majority had never been on strike before. This has been the "big society" in action, but not as Cameron meant it. —The Guardian (UK), 12/01/11
Thanks for your continued support,
Jean Ross, Karen Higgins, and Deborah Burger
Registered Nurses and NNU Co-Presidents
National Nurses United
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 1100
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.NationalNursesUnited.org

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Dean Baker | Trends Show Women Losing Access to Jobs
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: "The employment rate for women is down 0.7 percentage points from its year-ago level. The Labor Department reported a decline of 315,000 people in the labor market in October. This was the main factor driving a drop of 0.4 percentage points in the unemployment rate to 8.6 percent." 
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Declining Labor Force Participation Leads to Sharp Drop in Unemployment
By Dean Baker | CEPR

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Black Unemployment Rate Was 15.5% in November; an Increase from October

Data Brief: Black Employment and Unemployment in November 2011
December 2, 2011

» Data Brief 

The unemployment rate for Blacks was 15.5 percent last month. This is according to the latest report on the nation’s employment situation released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly Employment Situation report.  This rate was an increase from October, when unemployment in the Black community stood at 15.1 percent.  For the nation as a whole, unemployment fell to 8.6 percent in the month of November; this was a decrease from October when the national unemployment rate stood at 9.0 percent.  Among whites, unemployment was 7.6 percent; among Latinos, unemployment was 11.4 percent.  Comparable October 2011 figures were 8.0 percent and 11.4 percent respectively.  Overall, total non-farm payroll employment increased by 120,000 jobs from last month.

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Dec. 2, 2011

New York-area union members and students joined together in New York City for a March for Jobs and Economic Fairness.
The nation’s unemployment rate in November fell to 8.6 percent, down from October’s 9 percent, and the economy added 120,000 jobs last month. But this morning’s figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also show that 315,000 workers dropped out of the labor force.

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