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Teamsters Score 3-to-1 Election Victory in Nearly Union-Free Industry  Hostess Brands Gives Unions Final Offer‏Is Georgia Waiting for Its Jobless to Just Kill Themselves? How State GOPers Made Unemployment Hell on Earth   Article: 'Strike Strategy' & 2) Fwd: Shut it down! Nation of Change supports May 1 2012 General Strike‏minnesota farm workers and labor camps‏ In Barcelona, Austerity With an Iron Fist  Romney: Poor Mothers Should Be Required to Work Outside the Home Or Lose Welfare   
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http://www.alternet.org/story/154983/teamsters_score_3-to-1_election_victory_in_nearly_union-free_industry?akid=8594.16102.hGLv86&rd=1&t=24
-Teamsters Score 3-to-1 Election Victory in Nearly Union-Free IndustryThe 46-to-15 vote is a major step forward in the Teamsters' campaign to transform the overwhelmingly nonunion port trucking industry. READ MOREBy Josh Eidelson / In These Times
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Hostess Brands, Maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, Gives
Unions Final Offer On Pensions

By Associated Press, Published: April 14

DALLAS-- The company that makes Twinkies, Wonder bread
and Ding Dongs says it’s making a final offer to
workers to accept cost-cutting before it asks a
bankruptcy court to impose the cuts.

Hostess Brands Inc. wants the Teamsters and bakers’
unions to accept reduced pension benefits and changes
in work rules to lower costs. It wants to outsource
some delivery work.

The company said Saturday that if the unions reject the
offer, it will push ahead with efforts in bankruptcy
court to throw out the unions’ collective bargaining
agreements. A union official warned that could lead to
a strike.

Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 protection in
January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in
less than a decade. A trial to decide the fate of the
union contracts is scheduled to start Tuesday.

Hostess wants to withdraw from some multi-employer
pension plans, although it opened the door Saturday to
possibly rejoining a few of the financially strongest
plans. New hires would be covered by the same 401(k)-
type retirement accounts used by nonunion and
management employees.

The company’s new CEO, Gregory F. Rayburn, said Hostess
wants to cut annual pension contributions from $103
million to $25 million. Hostess also wants to change
work rules that sometimes require two trucks instead of
one, and to outsource deliveries to small stores.

Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters,
said the union would reject the company’s proposal and
make a counteroffer Sunday. He said Hostess had
provided only the barest details of how the new
pensions program would work, and that employees already
accepted big concessions in 2008.

Workers represented by the Teamsters and the bakery and
confectionary workers’ unions voted in February to
authorize a strike, and Hall vowed Saturday that
workers would walk off the job if the bankruptcy judge
agrees to the company’s cuts.

Rayburn said that if workers strike, the company will
be forced to shut down and liquidate.

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Is Georgia Waiting for Its Jobless to Just Kill Themselves? How State GOPers Made Unemployment Hell on EarthRed-state deficit politics become personal when Georgia's Republican majority cuts unemployment benefits.READ MOREGeorge Bauer / Alte
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1) strike strategy:http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1926/strikestrategy/ch01.htm2)Shut it down! Nation of Change supports May 1 2012 General StrikeDear Friends,

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day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public 
holiday. It’s a day to celebrate and march in 
support of im/migrant rights. In protest against 
the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, 
which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass 
unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a 
penalization of all those who do not own the 
‘99%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity 
with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we 
along with Occupations across the country decided 
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May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike.

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Video from YouTubeThere was a problem connecting to YouTube. This video may not exist or it may only play on YouTube. Try going to their website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgDWf9eefE&feature=youtuMINNESOTA FARM WORKERS AND LABOR CAMPSPhotos by David Bacon
South of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota farm workers harvest fruits and vegetables for some of the largest processors in the U.S., including Seneca Foods and Lakeside Foods.  The food shows up in supermarkets under the Green Giant, Birds Eye and other labels.
In Montgomery, many workers live in the labor camp next to the Seneca Foods plant.  Eight years ago, Centro Campesino, Minnesota's center for farm workers, helped Seneca workers force the company to provide better housing, and a kitchen where they could cook food.  Before that, workers had to use the county park.  In Faribault, Lakeside Foods has another big labor camp.  There Centro Campesino helped workers win a child care center.  Nevertheless, in both camps privacy is at a premium, especially in bathrooms.
Other farm workers in the area live in trailer parks.  Some in Montgomery say the rent on the trailers in one park doubles when the picking season begins and the workers arrive.  In Faribault, immigration agents have held the workers prisoner in another trailer park, while they pounded on doors demanding papers.
It's hard to make ends meet for many trailer residents, many of whom come from Veracruz.  Francisco Romero digs in his garden during his time off, and then puts in long hours in a local meatpacking plant.  Patricia Vasquez has a hard time getting enough hours in the small factory where she works, and worries about whether her daughter Karen will be able to go on to college when she graduates from high school.
Centro Campesino organizes the workers in the trailer parks, according to its director Ernesto Velez, a native of Morelos.  He says they've protested discrimination in towns like Owatonna, Montgomery and Faribault.  The center also administers a college access program designed to help the children of farm workers and immigrants get into college.

Two lectures on the political economy of migration by David Baconhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgDWf9eefE&feature=youtu.behttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd4OLdaoxvg&feature=related
For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.orgSee also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008)Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the USCommunities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
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David Bacon, Photographs and Stories
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8516-in-barcelona-austerity-with-an-iron-fist

In Barcelona, Austerity With an Iron FistPeter Gelderloos, Truthout: "Criminalizing public meetings, expanding police powers and weaponry, and applying anti-terrorist measures to street protests: it sounds like Spain in the Franco years, but all of these measures have been proposed in Spain in just the last couple of weeks. Far from being a throwback to the years of dictatorship, these repressive developments go hand in hand with the current economic crisis. Considering the connection between the 15M plaza occupation movement and the subsequent Occupy movement that spread to several countries around the globe, between the March 29th general strike in Spain and the upcoming May 1st general strike called in the United States, between the brutal austerity measures implemented already a year or two ago by the government in Madrid and the increasing signs of shakiness from more stable EU countries such as France, Spain is, if anything, ahead of the curve." Read the Article 

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8536-romney-poor-mothers-should-be-required-to-work-outside-the-home-or-lose-welfare

Romney: Poor Mothers Should Be Required to Work Outside the Home Or Lose WelfareAlex SeitzWald, ThinkProgress: "For every Romney action, there is an equal and opposite Romney reaction .... The Republican presidential candidate said he wanted to require women who receive welfare to work outside the home, even if their children are very young. He told a New Hampshire audience: 'I wanted to increase the work requirement,' said Romney. 'I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, 'Well that's heartless.' And I said, 'No, no, I'm willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It'll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.'"Read the Article

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