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Mon Jun 27 18:24:26 UTC 2011

CEO of Walmart Makes in One Hour What the Average Employee Makes In a Year: How Skyrocketing Inequality Is Hurting America
NEA's Electoral Circus-Which Way the Resistance?
Kelber: US Unions Ban Talk of Obamagogue's Imperial Wars
Target Workers Reject Corrupt UFCW
You Don't Need To Pay Union Dues in order to Surrender (NYC):* 
NJ Dem Legislators Smash Public Workers: Unions Say, "We will
definitely, definitely, go vote."* 
After Quicky Strike, CAW Buys another 2 Tier Plan (the hell with the
young)
Do For-Profit Prison Companies Increase the Prison Population and Taxpayer Costs?
Slave Labor by Another Name in Georgia After Crackdown on Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers

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CEO of Walmart Makes in One Hour What the Average Employee Makes In a Year: How Skyrocketing Inequality Is Hurting America
By Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet
A new report shows exactly who the top 0.1 percent of Americans with all the wealth are. The question is, what can we do about it? READ MORE »
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*Solidarity Forever* 

*NEA's Electoral Circus-Which Way the Resistance?* NEA spent more
than $50 million on the 2008 Obama campaign. Untold thousands of NEA
volunteers staffed the Obama campaign. Of all the organizations on the
floor of the Democratic Convention, NEA topped them in numbers.
Together with the American Federation of Teachers, school workers’
money and time was pivotal in the demagogue’s victory. 
In a June 11th interview with Politico, NEA executive director John
Wilson said the NEA would spend $60 million on the Obama campaign. He
added. ““We’ve got a lot of selling to do. Our members are very
unhappy. We’ve got to explain to them the stakes. We cannot wait
until a few months before the election.”
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2345&section=Article

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*Kelber: US Unions Ban Talk of Obamagogue's Imperial Wars:* AFL-CIO
leaders have decided that the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are
not an issue that the labor movement should be concerned with. 
To implement that unofficial decision, they have banned any news and
information about the two wars from appearing on the AFL-CIO web site,
including all printed matter and public statements under their direct
control. http://www.laboreducator.org/

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Target Workers Reject Corrupt UFCW:* The nation’s main union for
retail workers lost a unionization vote on Friday at a Target store in
Valley Stream, N.Y., in what was an effort to make it the first of
Target’s 1,750 stores in the United States to be unionized.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/business/18target.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

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You Don't Need To Pay Union Dues in order to Surrender (NYC):* Under
the agreement, state workers represented by the union, the Civil
Services Employees Association, would get no pay raise this year or in
the next two years. They would also accept a five-day unpaid furlough
this year and a four-day unpaid furlough next year. And thousands of
state workers would begin to pay a larger share of their health
insurance premiums, reducing costs to the state. 
State workers would receive 2 percent wage increases in the fourth and
fifth years of the five-year contract agreement, and lump-sum bonuses
in the third and fourth years that would not increase their base pay.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/cuomo-reaches-deal-with-union-to-avert-layoffs/?emc=eta1

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NJ Dem Legislators Smash Public Workers: Unions Say, "We will
definitely, definitely, go vote."* The Assembly passed the bill 46 to
32, as Republicans and a few Democrats defied raucous protests by
thousands of people whose chants, vowing electoral revenge, shook the
State House. Leaders in the State Senate said their chamber, which had
already passed a slightly different version of the bill, would approve
the Assembly version on Monday. Mr. Christie, a Republican, was
expected to sign the measure into law quickly. 
In a statement released after the vote, Mr. Christie said, “We are
putting the people first and daring to touch the third rail of
politics in order to bring reform to an unsustainable system.” 
The legislation will sharply increase what state and local workers
must contribute for their health insurance and pensions, suspend
cost-of-living increases to retirees’ pension checks, raise
retirement ages and curb the unions’ contract bargaining rights.
*..*While states around the country have moved to pare labor costs and
limit the power of unions, the move is all the more striking here, in
a Democratic-leaning state where Democrats control both houses of the
Legislature and union membership is among the highest in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/nj-legislature-moves-to-cut-benefits-for-public-workers.html?_r=1&hp

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After Quicky Strike, CAW Buys another 2 Tier Plan (the hell with the
young)* The union representing 3,800 striking workers at Air Canada
(AC.B.T) said Thursday it had reached a tentative four-year deal with
the air carrier, Canada's biggest, that provides for wage increases
and "slight" changes to existing employees' pension plan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110616-712053.html

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Martori Farms: Abusive Conditions at Key Wal-Mart Supplier
Victoria Law, Truthout: "The Arizona Department of Corrections has sent its prisoners to work for private agricultural businesses for almost 20 years. The farm pays its imprisoned laborers two dollars per hour, not including the travel time to and from the farm. Women on the Perryville Unit are assigned to Martori Farms, an Arizona farm corporation that supplies fresh fruits and vegetables to vendors across the United States (Martori is the exclusive supplier to Wal-Mart's 2,470 Supercenter and Neighborhood Market stores)." 

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Do For-Profit Prison Companies Increase the Prison Population and Taxpayer Costs?
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo

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Slave Labor by Another Name in Georgia After Crackdown on Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers
Read the Article at The Washington Post

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