[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news, views and concerns, 4.15.12‏‏‏‏-I‏

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A Week of Action Supporting Workers Rights 4/16 through 4/20‏ (San Diego, CA)Inequalities, Trade Unions and Virtuous Circles | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  50 Percent Pay Cuts at GE's Plants: Is This the Future of American Jobs?  The War on Public-Sector Workers  The Ill Wind of Death That Races Across the Mexican Border Into the US  Housework as Work: Selma James on Unwaged Labor and Decades-Long Struggle to Pay Housewives  Colombia Trade Pact 'Deeply Disturbing'‏ How Organized Labor Helped Win Marriage Equality in Maryland and Washington--And What We Can Learn
New Organizing Campaign Aims to Change the Way We Think About Work--And Each Other
Is "Micro-Labor" Helping People Make Extra Cash--Or Creating a New Way to Exploit Struggling Workers?  
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Join Us!Brothers and Sisters,
We would like to invite you to join us at the upcoming events on the week of April 16-20:Monday, April 16: Center on Policy Initiatives Budget Press Conference 1:00pm discussing the newly released budget and it’s impacts on working families.
@ Civic Center Plaza, 202 C Street in Downtown San Diego.Tuesday, April 17: AFGE Tax Day “Tax the Wealth” Action, part of national day of action to demand the 1% pay their fair share.
@ Office of Brian Bilbray, 380 Stevens Avenue in Solana Beach.Wednesday the 18th: AFGE Picket and Rally 11:45am-12:30pm, opposing a USCIS office move that would make immigration services less accessible to the public.
@ Union and Broadway (we will be marching to Front St.) in Downtown San Diego.Thursday the 19th: MTS Board Meeting Supporting Bus Drivers 9:00-10:30 a.m., to speak against MTS Board’s approval of CEO pay raise, during ongoing contract negotiations, that could leave workers without sick pay. 
@ James R. Mills Building 1255 Imperial Avenue  San Diego, CA 92101 on 10th Floor in Downtown San Diego. Friday the 20th: A Better San Diego Breakfast 8:30-9:30am, Topic: The War on Workers at the June Ballot Box. 
@ United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135, 2001 Camino del Rio South in Mission Valley. For any more information please contact Marco Briones at (619) 228-8101 Ext. 5We look forward to seeing you at these events!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Inequalities, Trade Unions and Virtuous Circles | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternativeswww.policyalternatives.caIn a recent posting on this site - "Thinking Alternatives” we suggested that the Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - provided examples of more collective, egalitarian and inclusive societies that could serve as models for Canada. We based this conclusion on the considera...

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http://www.alternet.org/story/154990/50_percent_pay_cuts_at_ge%27s_plants%3A_is_this_the_future_of_american_jobs_?akid=8598.16102.cCjMeN&rd=1&t=18

-50 Percent Pay Cuts at GE's Plants: Is This the Future of American Jobs?The company President Obama called a "model for America" is squeezing its workers, cutting pensions, wages and benefits--but workers are organizing to fight back. READ MOREBy Mischa Gaus / Labor Notes
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8539-the-war-on-public-sector-workers

The War on Public-Sector WorkersDean Baker, Truthout: "Politicians across the country are using heaping doses of the politics of envy to try to arouse the anger of workers.... The targets of these politicians' wrath are school teachers, firefighters, and other public-sector workers.... They are outraged that many of these workers still earn enough to support a middle-class family. Even more outrageous, many of these workers have traditional defined-benefit pensions that assure them a modicum of comfort in retirement."Read the Article 

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http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13442

The Ill Wind of Death That Races Across the Mexican Border Into the USMark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "The statistics are almost certainly an undercount, because a lot of bodies are never found, but data reveals that hundreds of undocumented migrants each year die seeking economic refuge in the United States."Read the BuzzFlash Commentary

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http://www.alternet.org/rss/breakingnews/896460/housework_as_work%3A_selma_james_on_unwaged_labor_and_decades-long_struggle_to_pay_housewives/?akid=8595.16102.t8WcJN&rd=1&t=17

Housework as Work: Selma James on Unwaged Labor and Decades-Long Struggle to Pay HousewivesBy mail at democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) | Democracy Now!
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April 16, 2012
New features at www.aflcio.org look at an innovative training program from Chicago Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 597 and the campaign music video dancers are waging for a fair contract.In a joint statement yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Colombian trade union leaders called the White House announcement that the U.S.–Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will enter into force on May 15 “deeply disappointing and troubling.” Colombia remains the deadliest nation in the world for trade unionists, with two dozen killed last year alone.
Read more and comment.  Pipe Fitters and Dancers: Innovative and Creative Tax Day and Equal Pay Day Will Make Tuesday a ‘Twofer’ White House Names IUE-CWA’s Clark ‘Champion of Change’ The American Workplace? Nationwide Rallies Call on Senate to Save Postal Service Auto Parts Workers Organizing in Mexico Score Win with International SolidarityRead more important news of the day on the issues working families care about.Follow the AFL-CIO:
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http://www.alternet.org/story/154925/how_organized_labor_helped_win_marriage_equality_in_maryland_and_washington--and_what_we_can_learn?akid=8594.16102.hGLv86&rd=1&t=2

How Organized Labor Helped Win Marriage Equality in Maryland and Washington--And What We Can LearnThe labor and LGBT rights movements are natural allies, and have won some key victories working together.READ MOREJames Cersonsky / AlterNet
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http://www.alternet.org/story/154989/new_organizing_campaign_aims_to_change_the_way_we_think_about_work--and_each_other_?akid=8594.16102.hGLv86&rd=1&t=8

New Organizing Campaign Aims to Change the Way We Think About Work--And Each OtherAmerica's aging population is going to need care in the coming years--Caring Across Generations aims to create millions of good jobs and redefine our relationships to one another. READ MORELaura Flanders / The Nation
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-Is "Micro-Labor" Helping People Make Extra Cash--Or Creating a New Way to Exploit Struggling Workers?New websites that connect people to odd jobs raise questions about the future of work: are these the new home-based sweatshops, exploiting desperation for next to no pay? READ MOREBy Michelle Chen / In These Times
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