[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news 6.16.11

[Carlos Pelayo]

Seven Ways Scott Walker and the GOP Are Still Trying to Screw Wisconsin's Poor, Working Class, and Just About Everybody Else
Vermont Breaks Ground in Health Coverage for Migrant Workers

Anti-union video from Target used union actors

Walker Won On Anti-Union Law -- What Now?

Union fight already brewing on new Kings arena

How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other | Black Agenda Report

Five of the Nastiest Examples of Wal-Mart Evil

A National Living Wage Fight Finds a Battleground in NYC: 'We Aren't Here Just To Survive, We Want to Live'
 
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Seven Ways Scott Walker and the GOP Are Still Trying to Screw Wisconsin's Poor, Working Class, and Just About Everybody Else
Meredith Clark, AlterNet: "Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has taken a machete to the state's budget and has clearly relished every swipe he's taken to social programs and civil rights. The spirit of the enormous protests that sprang to life in February over Walker's proposal to ban collective bargaining is stronger than ever. Thousands of people descended upon the Capitol this week to protest both Monday's State Supreme Court decision to reinstate the collective bargaining ban and the governor's proposed two-year budget, which includes hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts and is currently moving through the legislature." 
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Vermont Breaks Ground in Health Coverage for Migrant Workers
Yvonne Yen Liu, New America Media: "Vermont, land of rolling green hills dotted with black and white Holsteins and picturesque red barns. White people, everywhere, lots of them. Home of state-sanctioned town hall meetings that are models for participatory democracy. And now, the first state in our republic to enact universal health care for all. Two weeks ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law H. 202, 'An act relating to a single-payer and unified health system.' It's the first state to plunge into a single-payer system to implement national health care reform, which Harvard economist William S. Hsiao found was the best method to both reign in spiraling costs and diminish disparities."
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Union fight already brewing on new Kings arena
 
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Anti-union video from Target used union actors
By rss at dailykos.com (Laura Clawson) | Daily Kos
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Walker Won On Anti-Union Law -- What Now?
By Eric Kleefeld | TPMDC
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http://blackagendareport.com/content/how-corporate-right-divided-blacks-teachers-unions-and-each-other
 


How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other | Black Agenda Report blackagendareport.com 
Charter school supporters are denouncing the NAACP for filing suit, along with the teachers union, against preferential – separate but unequal – treatment of charter schools in New York City. The charter activists claim the NAACP is dividing the community, but that division was orchestrated 15 years
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Five of the Nastiest Examples of Wal-Mart Evil
>From worker mistreatment to putting local stores out of business, here's how Wal-Mart is still fighting for the wrong side. READ MORE
Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
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A National Living Wage Fight Finds a Battleground in NYC: 'We Aren't Here Just To Survive, We Want to Live'
The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act has garnered strong support among the city's labor and religious communities, but has run up against big-moneyed, powerful interests. READ MORE 
By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet 
 
 

 
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