[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news, views and concerns, 2.17.12-1

[Carlos Pelayo]

Four Recent Victories Signal Hard Truth About Rebuilding Labor Movement  UI Benefits Extension Doesn't Share Sacrifice‏Power at the Ports: Truckers Force Showdowns in Seattle, Los Angeles  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Four Recent Victories Signal Hard Truth About Rebuilding Labor MovementMike Elk, In These Times: "The key lesson of these small victories is this: When workers develop individual strategies for their own workplace - rather than rely on grand master plans from union leaders - they're more likely to win. It's to study the GE, Cablevision and the longshoremen union (ILWU) campaign in Longview to understand what works." Read the Article 
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Feb. 17, 2012
Find out about jazz musicians’ struggle for justice in the past and their continuing fight today.If the federal unemployment benefits program and payroll tax cut are not extended, it would compound the hardship of jobless families and jeopardize the recent signs of job growth, says the AFL-CIO in a letter to Congress. But the bill to be voted on today reduces the number of weeks of benefits and unfairly penalizes federal workers. “Shared sacrifice should start at the top, with a surtax on millionaires, not with unemployed workers or middle-class working families.” The AFL-CIO does not support the bill. 
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-Power at the Ports: Truckers Force Showdowns in Seattle, Los AngelesA group of port workers in Los Angeles has filed for a rare union election, and another just ended a two-week strike that brought the Port of Seattle to a near standstill. READ MOREBy Josh Eidelson / AlterNet
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