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10 Arrested--Including Vietnam Veteran, Minister, Students, Unemployed--At Wells Fargo ActionBy AlterNet Staff | AlterNet

David Bacon Lecture at Global Goes Local ConferencePlay videoSt. Cloud Public Library, April 10, 2012, Topic: The Political Economy of Criminalizing Immigrants". Global Goes Local Conference co-sponsored by: • St. Cloud State University Faculty Research Group…00:50:18Added on 4/14/12169 viewsDEMONSTRATORS CONFRONT WELLS FARGO SHAREHOLDERSPhotos by David BaconSAN FRANCISCO, CA  (4/24/12) - Thousands of angry homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers and community groups converged on the annual shareholders meeting of Wells Fargo Bank.  In a carefully choreographed protest, simultaneous marches left Justin Herman Plaza on the city's waterfront, site of the Occupy San Francisco encampment last fall.  Demonstrators walked up parallel streets into the financial district, where they encircled the block in which the meeting was set to take place, in the Julia Morgan ballroom of the Merchant's Exchange Building. Beforehand, some demonstrators had moved into the building's lobby, while others chained themselves together, putting sleeves around their arms to make it hard for police to cut them apart to arrest them.        A group of religious, union and community representatives had purchased shares of stock in the bank beforehand, supposedly allowing them to attend the shareholders meeting.  Some even held proxies, allowing them to vote the stock belonging to others.  As the rally swirled outside, and speeches and songs filled the streets now vacant of their normal traffic, the police closed off the building and refused to let the shareholders inside.Maria Poblete, from the housing rights organization Just Cause, and Cinthiya Muñoz, from Alameda County United to Defend Immigrant Rights, spoke from a flatbed truck in front of the bank, reminding the crowd of the reasons they'd brought their protests to the bank's doors.  "Shareholders want to meet about how to best reap profits from foreclosures, for-profit prisons and detention centers, student loans, and tax evasion," Poblete shouted.  "Today the bank can see that there's no more business as usual.  We say no!"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, however, closed the meeting to the shareholders kept at bay by the police outside.  "Wells Fargo's actions today demonstrate what communities across this country have been experiencing for years:  Wells Fargo is indifferent to the havoc they are wreaking in our communities and they do not want to be held accountable," said Wallace Hill, whose home was foreclosed on by Wells Fargo in Oakland.Earlier in April, housing rights activists met with Jon Campbell, Wells Fargo's executive in charge of social responsibility.  They proposed a series of measures to meet the crisis faced by families whose homes are underwater, and a moratorium on foreclosures.  Campbell refused to consider any of their demands.  The bank is the U.S.'s largest servicer of home mortgages.  "We are the 99%, and we won't take no for an answer!" Muñoz shouted from the flatbed truck.Fifteen protesting shareholders were finally permitted across police lines, and went into the meeting.  When Stumpf began a presentation congratulating the bank for making a $15.9 billion profit last year, in the midst of foreclosures and a recession, they interrupted him.  Police converged on them, took them out of the meeting, and cited and released them.  Nine others were arrested outside.Afterwards, the remaining shareholders approved a $19.8 compensation for Stumpf's last year's labor.  "The bank is pleased with the progress we've made in a tough economy," bank Vice President Oscar Suris told the media. "We'll continue focusing on our customers, and that includes our customers who are going through difficult economic times."

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
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
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Could a Union Strike Ground the Pentagon's New Jet?
Lockheed workers seeking to protect their pensions are
putting the "strike" in the $1 trillion F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter.
By Adam Weinstein
Mother Jones
April 23, 2012
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/union-joint-strike-fighter-pentagon

The union builders of one of the Pentagon's priciest
pieces of equipment are going on strike, threatening
the beleaguered trillion-dollar program and the Beltway
contractors who are counting on it.

Last Sunday, workers at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth,
Texas, construction plant voted by more than a 9-to-1
margins to strike for better conditions [1]. The
plant's 3,600 union machinists handle most of the parts
and assembly for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an
over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule [2]
fighter jet that's on record [3] as one of the biggest
wastes of money in Pentagon history.

At 12:01 a.m. this morning, members of the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers Local 776 walked off the job. At issue was
Lockheed's proposal to slash pensions and health-care
programs for new hires and rehired machinists. "But
there are other things that are still open on the table
that are unacceptable," union president Paul Black told
MSNBC [4]. Workers are ready for a lengthy work
stoppage, according to the Ft. WorthStar-Telegram:

Nick Hight, an 8-year Lockheed employee, said he was
willing to strike for weeks if necessary over the
pension issue. "No pension for new hires, that's not
good. What if my granddaughter wanted to work here."

"They keep taking things away from us," said Kim
Nguyen, an aircraft assembler who has worked 15 years
at the Lockheed plant. "They've gotten too greedy.
We've got to fight for something."

Read more here:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/22/3903130/lockheed-machinists-vote-to-strike.html#storylink=cpy

It's not like the laborers are trying to get blood from
a stone: Thanks largely to the F-35 program, Lockheed
is the single biggest defense contractor in the United
States, with $17.34 billion in federal projects per
year [5]--more than "Beltway bandits [6]" KBR, Boeing,
and General Dynamics combined. So far, Lockheed's made
$400 billion off the F-35, despite cost overruns and
concerns over the craft's airworthiness [7] that have
delayed its delivery for service, first slated for
2010.

A spokesman for Lockheed only told the Star-Telegram
that the company considered its final offer to the
workers "equitable," since its equally profitable
competitors "no longer offer defined benefit pension
plans to new hires." In contrast, Lockheed CEO Robert
Stevens made $25.4 million last year, including a $4.7
million bonus--a 16 percent increase over his 2010
compensation, even though company earnings fell 8
percent in the same period, according to SEC filings
[8]. Of course, as my colleague Josh Harkinson has
reported [9], some of America's most successful CEOs
have always gotten rich by squeezing workers. But
defense contractors rarely get the same scrutiny as
bank, insurance, and retail executives.

Could a lengthy strike further delay the F-35? Maybe;
Lockheed reports [10] no effects on its assembly line
so far, though it has notified the military services
that there could be problems delivering the jets on
time. But with conservatives on a renewed hunt for
communists [11] and the House Armed Services Committee
meeting this week [12] to discuss the annual defense
budget, expect Republicans to defend their No. 1
private contractor while tossing a couple of barbs at
those "unpatriotic" union workers down in Texas.

Source URL:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/union-joint-strike-fighter-pentagon

Links:
[1]
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/22/3903130/lockheed-machinists-vote-to-strike.html
[2]
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/military-ge-f136-jsf-engine
[3]
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/09/solyndra-vs-military-boondoggles
[4]
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Lockheed-Martin-Machinist-Strike-in-Texas-148506805.html
[5]
http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011.aspx
[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_bandits
[7]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reese-schonfeld/mccain-jsf-program_b_1132570.html
[8]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/lockheed-execpay-idUSL2E8E9HVH20120309
[9]
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/ceo-executive-pay-layoffs
[10]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iHcdjqoJHKqgjZyr9yArJjJUePLA?docId=8a58de81a2f5481bb92a4e4fdb0b8967
[11]
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/allen-wests-communist-conspiracy-implicates-woodrow-wilson
[12]
http://www.politico.com/morningdefense/0412/morningdefense479.html

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From many Bolivian news services: Cort Video: at the 18 second mark, there is a commerical but you can skip, its about a 15 minute video...  http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/22094124 Massive protests and a 48 hour general strike began today by workers affiliated to the Bolivian Workers Central or as known in Spanish as the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) were held all over the country and were met with violence from the police in La Paz where numerous people were injured, details still pending. Health workers, doctors, teachers, academics, miners, factory workers and others surrounded the country's political center in the Plaza Murillo in the city of La Paz, to demand that the government of the MAS and President Evo Morales give salary increases and calling for the overturn of Supreme Decree 1126 which extends the hours of work for doctors and health care workers from 6 to 8 hours a day.Also hundreds of teachers, professors and administrators from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) were stationed in front of the building of the Ministry of Health calling  for the resignation of Minister Juan Carlos Calvimontes  and in which the police responded with tear gas grenades. Tomorrow begins the march by indigenous roups opposed to a road through the TIPNIS, the opening to development and the lack of prior consultation  and the march is supported by the Central Obrera Boliviana.
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April 24, 2012
Some 4,500 RNs at eight Sutter Health Bay Area hospitals will hold a one-day strike May 1 to protest Sutter’s demand for more than 100 reductions in patient care and nurses’ standards.With new tools and strategies, the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America is working with dozens of unions and progressive allies to strengthen ties between communities and local labor to build progressive infrastructure for the long haul.
Read more and comment.  Sutter Nurses Set 1-Day Strike for Patient Care Gov. Brewer Won’t Appear at Senate Hearing to Defend Ariz. Immigration Law Trustees’ Report Shows Social Security ‘Vibrant, Strong’ Four Years Later, No Justice for Guatemala’s WorkersRead more important news of the day on the issues working families care about.Follow the AFL-CIO:
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The billionaire owners of Station Casinos are playing a dirty, downright illegal game of unionbusting.Demand Station Casinos' workers get a fair process to organize.
The house always wins in Vegas, but those odds shouldn't relate to how a casino treats its workers.Station Casinos is the third largest private employer in Las Vegas, operating 18 casinos, and is majority owned by Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, and two billionaire brothers.In a classic Wall Street move, 13 Station executives and insiders pulled off a leveraged buyout in 2007 – paying themselves $660 million and then outrageously laying off more than 2,800 workers. The remaining staff haven't fared well either – they're saddled with skyrocketing healthcare costs and haven't had a raise in five years.Employees at Station Casinos started a public organizing campaign more than two years ago, but today they are still facing unfair and unprecedented resistance from the company. They need our help standing up to the billionaires and bankers who own Station Casinos – Can we count on you?Tell Station Casinos: Stop unionbusting and let your workers have a fair process to organize.Station's kitchen and restaurant staff, cocktail servers, bartenders, housekeepers, and porters have been trying to get a voice at work since 2010 to provide a better future for themselves and their families. In response, Station launched a vicious anti-union campaign, firing organizers and retaliating, threatening, interrogating, and spying on other employees.Station Casinos has been found to have broken federal labor law 88 times, according to two NLRB Administrative Law Judges. That's the largest number of unfair labor practices committed by a single employer in the history of Nevada gaming. (The company has of course appealed the judges' recommended decisions.)With Station playing so dirty, the deck is stacked against these workers. They clearly deserve a fair process to allow them to decide whether to have union representation without facing any interference, intimidation, or bullying from management.Demand Station Casinos allow its workers to exercise their right to organize freely and fairly!Instead of investing in its workers, respecting their rights, and abiding by the law, Station wants to cover up its shameful workers' rights abuses. The company just launched a spin campaign – spending millions of dollars to win over public opinion through TV and newspaper ads, mailers, and billboards in Las Vegas.We need you to speak up and convince Station the ads aren't working and we know better!The timing couldn't be more urgent. For the past week, Station workers, faith leaders, and community allies have been fasting to bring more attention to their plight. On Thursday, a casino spokesperson called the fast "disingenuous" and a publicity stunt1. This is a big sacrifice these brave workers are making to send a message to Station Casinos that they should have a right to work without fear. It's crucial we convince the company that we believe in these workers, that we're watching, and that we care.Urge Station to respect workers' rights and agree to a fair process immediately.Thanks for all that you do for workers,Hilary, Michael, Liz, Kim, Susan, and the American Rights at Work team
www.AmericanRightsatWork.org1 http://m.lvsun.com/news/2012/apr/19/nv-station-casinos-hunger-strike-1st-ld-writethru/This message was sent to cgpelayo at hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from American Rights at Work action alerts, click here.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/24/4436958/lawmakers-pushing-to-tie-california.html
Lawmakers pushing to tie California minimum wage to consumer price index
By Jim SandersGasoline was selling for $3.33 a gallon, Jerry Brown was attorney general, and California was bracing for a budget crisis when the state's hourly minimum wage rose to $8 in early 2008. - Read More
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-What We Still Get Wrong About Women and WorkThe question we should be asking is not whether domestic caregiving is more or less important than wage work—they’re both crucial, and crucially different.READ MOREBy Michelle Chen / In These Times
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