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Madison, MI, Teachers Sue to Halt Pay Cut George Schmidt review of the book and its relation to the potential Chicago school workers' strike Student Loan Debt Over One Trillion Dollars, the next bubble  San Diego Teachers Protest More than a Thousand Pink Slips Detroit Issues 4100 Teacher Layoff Slips...Proud DFT does....nothing Pontiac School System Evaporates-quisling union offers unemployment counseling Unionites Endorse Airline Merger, and Job Losses, as Big Fish Eat Little Restaurant Workers Demand Equal Pay, Appealing to Restaurant Lobbyists and Congress  Post Offices Face Hurdles in Efforts to Diversify   
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Madison, MI, Teachers Sue to Halt Pay Cut Teachers in the Madison District Public Schools plan to file suit today against the district
for imposing retroactive 10 percent pay cuts that take effect today. 
Bobby Robinson, a representative for the Madison Education
Association, said the union particularly objects to provisions that
make the pay cut retroactive to September 2011. An unfair labor
practices suit and injunction request to stop the cut is expected in
Oakland County Circuit Court. 
"The 10 percent pay cut is one thing, but the retroactive part is
against the law," Robinson said.
 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120420/SCHOOLS/204200364/1026/schools/Madison-teachers-sue-pay-fight
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George Schmidt review of the book and its relation to the potential
Chicago school workers' strike  
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3202&section=Article
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Student Loan Debt Over One Trillion Dollars, the next bubble The growing student loan debt has led to concerns that it could harm the
economy, especially since federally backed student loans can't be
discharged through bankruptcy. Recent reports show that student loans
are on track this year to exceed $1 trillion — more than credit and
auto loans. Meanwhile, default rates have climbed. 
"Student debt has (been) growing for some time," said Lauren Asher,
president of the Institute for College Access & Success, an Oakland,
Calif., policy organization that runs the Project on Student Debt.
"College costs have continued to outpace both family incomes and
available grant aid so students and families are increasingly turning
to loans to fill that gap." 
The student loan burden comes as cash-strapped states, including
Michigan, continue to scale back support to public universities,
leading schools to hike tuition, which means more students borrow more
money to cover costs. Last week, Central Michigan University became
the first of the state's public universities to announce a tuition
increase for the next school year. Others are expected to follow in
coming weeks.
 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120417/SCHOOLS/204170370/1026/schools/Students-amass-mountain-debt-default-rates-continue-climb
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San Diego Teachers Protest More than a Thousand Pink Slips—Hundreds of teachers turned their classrooms over to substitutes
Wednesday to contest pink slips — or simply protest the San Diego
school district’s massive proposed personnel cuts — at hearings
that give educators a last-ditch effort to save their jobs. 
Many showed up in red union T-shirts and carried picket signs. Some
brought stacks of papers to grade while they waited through the
tedious proceedings. A few even arrived with babies, whose pediatric
health care could be cut along with their parents’ jobs. 
The San Diego Unified School District issued tentative layoff notices
to 1,666 teachers — including 20 percent of the elementary teaching
force — last month to cope with the state’s fiscal crisis and help
offset a projected $122 million deficit in next year’s $1.1 billion
budget.
 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/18/teachers-appeal-pink-slips/
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Detroit Issues 4100 Teacher Layoff Slips...Proud DFT does....nothing
At least 4,100 Detroit Public Schools teachers received layoff
noticesthis week and were told they can reapply for their jobs next
month. 
Keith Johnson, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers,
confirmed Thursday the notices were sent by the district this week.
The layoffs are effective Aug. 24, just days before the start of the
2012-13 school year, and went to all teachers in the district.
Nonteaching positions were not affected.  
 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120413/SCHOOLS/204130364/1026/schools/DPS-teachers-get-layoff-slips
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Pontiac School System Evaporates-quisling union offers unemployment
counseling Van Fleet was among 45 teachers laid off in the Pontiac
School District to help eliminate a $24 million deficit. Teachers at
Owen Elementary knew about the layoffs, but the names of the five to
be laid off at their school were announced Wednesday. During a press
conference in front of the school Friday afternoon, tears flowed from
teachers and students as they embraced and said goodbye to each other.
Some teachers and their colleagues held boxes to help the laid-off
teachers pack their belongings. The cuts also include 27 school
administrators, seven secretaries, six support personnel and 12
non-union members. The layoffs come 45 days before the end of the
school year. 
Pontiac Education Association President Aimee McKeever said she will
meet with the laid-off teachers Monday to review unemployment and
medical coverage issues. 
"The district is saying there's no chance of recalls," she said. "They
claim at least 500 students will leave the district, but even more
will leave now that classrooms will be so overcrowded," she said.
"Because the district mismanaged funds and allowed people to steal
from us, they're putting that burden on the backs of teachers and
making the community, the teachers and the students suffer."  
 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120414/SCHOOLS/204140349/1026/schools/Pontiac-teachers-exit-emotional
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Unionites Endorse Airline Merger, and Job Losses, as Big Fish Eat
Little US Airways moved a step closer to merging with bankrupt
American Airlines Friday when three key unions announced their
support. 
If the merger goes forward, the US Airways brand would go the way of
Pan Am, TWA and Eastern Airlines, consigned to history as the merged
carrier flies under the American banner.  ...As with most mergers,
jobs would be lost. In this case, analysts said, most of those
affected would be airplane mechanics. Bound by union agreements,
American has maintained a cadre of in-house mechanics in an era when
other airlines have contracted out that work.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/unions-back-american-us-airways-merger/2012/04/20/gIQAfrPXWT_story.html
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http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/907037/restaurant_workers_demand_equal_pay%2C_appealing_to_restaurant_lobbyists_and_congress/#paragraph5

Restaurant Workers Demand Equal Pay, Appealing to Restaurant Lobbyists and CongressBy Naima Ramos-Chapman & Tara Kutz | Campus Progress
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Post Offices Face Hurdles in Efforts to DiversifyBy RON NIXONProposals for the Postal Service to expand beyond mail have met with resistance from Congress and potential competitors, but a bipartisan bill would let it enter into several new lines of business.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 
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