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King of UAW to German Autobosses: Let Me Help you Screw theWorkers*--- rs have rebuffed the union repeatedly. 100 year old political cartoon- still as accurate as everICE Agents’ Union Delays Training on New Policy on Deportation‏ Labor for Palestine: Support the Longview Caravan and stop union-busting!‏Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle"Daddy, What's a Union?" 10 Words Our Kids May Not Recognize  U.S. Economy Gains Steam as 200,000 Jobs Are AddedIndiana Labor Measure Is Expected to Progress Labor Board Backs Workers on Joint Arbitration CasesMust See Video | Organizing Victory | Healthcare 
Rallies | Nurse Talk Radio‏ 
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King of UAW to German Autobosses: Let Me Help you Screw the
Workers*--- rs have rebuffed the union repeatedly. 
Specifically,Reuters has learned, the union is going after U.S. plants owned by
German manufacturers Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG, seen as easier nuts
to crack than the Japanese and South Koreans.
 
It's a battle the UAW cannot afford to lose. By failing to organize
factories run by foreign automakers, the union has been a spectator to
the only growth in the U.S. auto industry in the last 30 years. That
failure to win new members has compounded a crunch on the UAW's
finances, forcing it to sell assets and dip into its strike fund to
pay for its activities.
 
In dozens of interviews with union officials, organizers and car
company executives, a picture has emerged of UAW President Bob King's
strategy. By appealing to German unions for help and by calling on the
companies to do the right thing, King hopes to get VW and Daimler to
surrender without a fight and let the union make its case directly to
workers... King is eager to show IG Metall and the foreign automakers
that a new UAW has emerged from the wreckage of Detroit and that the
union can be a better partner with management. He points to new
contracts with U.S. automakers as an example of the UAW's
flexibility.... Newly hired workers earn $14.50 an hour at VW in
Chattanooga. That is just below the $14.78 that a new hire would make
at a unionized GM plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Adjusted for
monthly dues at Spring Hill, the VW worker is behind by only about $15
per month.
 
King concedes the UAW's past mistakes contributed to Detroit's
near-demise.    
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/29/us-usa-autos-south-idUSTRE7BS0E020111229
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100 year old political cartoon- still as accurate as 
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"Pyramid of Capitalist 
System", issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashick and Kuharich, Cleveland: The 
International Publishing Co., 1911.


The Pyramid of Capitalist System 
is a provocative illustration of the hierarchical system of capitalist rule in 
America. In this beautifully colored portrait, the artist depicts the multiple 
tiers of working class oppression. At the top of the pyramid sits the state, 
which serves the interests of the ruling class and functions under capitalism as 
the protector of private wealth and property. Below the state stand the 
religious leaders, clergymen, and preachers of false consciousness who encourage 
obedience to and acceptance of the status quo, entreating the working masses to 
accept their ordained fate and seek their just rewards not on earth but in that 
glorious hereafter.

If obedience cannot be encouraged it will surely be 
enforced by the members of the next tier. As events in Homestead and Pullman 
clearly testified, the police and militia had as their objective not the 
protection of "the people," but rather the protection of capital from "the 
people." Beneath the military sit the parasite class, the bourgeoisie, who 
exploit the toilers of the world and profit by their labor power.

Beneath 
it all, bearing the weight of the entire system, are the workers who produce all 
things fundamental to the perpetuation of life and the continuation of this 
system. Thus, in addition to illustrating the multi-layered oppression and 
exploitation of workers, this image also begs the question, "what would happen 
to capitalism if the workers simply withdrew their support?" 
 
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January 
7, 2012

Agents’ 
Union Delays Training on New Policy on Deportation
By JULIA PRESTON



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/illegal-immigrants-who-commit-crimes-focus-of-deportation.html?_r=1&hp
WASHINGTON — The federal agency in 
charge of deportations is conducting a far-reaching training course to push immigration enforcement officers and prosecutors nationwide to 
focus their efforts on removing immigrants convicted of crimes.
The training course is the clearest 
sign yet that administration officials want to transform the way immigration 
officers work, asking them to make nuanced decisions to speed deportations of 
high-risk offenders while halting those of illegal immigrants with clean records 
and strong ties to the country. The policy is President Obama’s most ambitious 
immigration initiative before the November elections, senior administration 
officials said.
But in a new sign of the deep 
dissension over immigration, the union representing some 7,000 deportation 
officers of the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has so far 
not allowed its members to participate in the training. Without the formal 
assent of the union, the administration’s strategy could be significantly slowed 
for months in labor negotiations.
Chris Crane, the president of the 
union, the National ICE Council, has fiercely criticized the strategy, saying it 
amounts to orders from ICE officials for agents not to enforce the law. In 
Congressional testimony, Mr. Crane accused the administration of tailoring its 
enforcement practices to win support from immigrant communities for Mr. Obama’s 
re-election.
“Law enforcement and public safety 
have taken a back seat to attempts to satisfy immigrant advocacy groups,” Mr. 
Crane told a House Judiciary subcommittee in October.
Mr. Crane has channeled his criticisms 
primarily through Republican leaders in Congress, working with Representative 
Lamar Smith of Texas, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Calling the 
administration’s plan “backdoor amnesty,” Mr. Smith said last week that evidence 
Mr. Crane presented to the committee showed that directives from ICE officials 
for agents to use discretion in enforcement decisions had “undermined the 
agency’s credibility and mission.”
Department of Homeland Security 
officials say the training seminar, although only half a day, is central to 
bringing all ICE officers on board for an effort that they say will 
significantly raise the numbers of convicted criminals among deportees and is 
expected to lead in coming months to unprecedented suspensions of deportations 
of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants.
Virtually all ICE commanding officers 
and prosecutors have gone through the training course and are working on the new 
strategy, Homeland Security Department officials said. But because of the 
silence from the ICE Council, a local of the American Federation of Government 
Employees, the officials will miss their Jan. 13 goal for completing the 
nationwide training blitz, which began in November.
The National ICE Council faces a 
deadline late this month to say whether it will demand negotiations over the 
training, the officials said. Mr. Crane did not respond to repeated e-mail 
requests over several months for comment.
On another side, the administration is 
facing intense pressure from Latino leaders and immigrant organizations to begin 
halting deportations.
The cornerstone of the policy is a 
June 17 memorandum by John Morton, the director of ICE, in which he laid out a 
list of no fewer than 31 factors that ICE officers should weigh when deciding 
whether to proceed with a deportation. Peter S. Vincent, ICE’s top lawyer, added 
additional guidelines on Nov. 17.
With slide shows and chalk talks on a 
dozen hypothetical immigration cases, the training seminar challenges officers 
to decide which foreigners should be deported, using prosecutorial discretion to 
make more complex decisions than they have in decades. It instructs agents to 
focus on the worst offenders, including criminal convicts, gang members and 
foreigners who came back after being expelled. Other groups of immigrants — 
elderly people, children, military veterans, college students and parents of 
young citizens — are low priorities who can be allowed to stay, even if they are 
here illegally. A New York Times reporter sat through an abbreviated version of 
the seminar.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet 
Napolitano said the policy was based on existing statutes and was intended to 
make good use of strained resources. With each deportation costing at least 
$23,000, she said, immigration agencies have money for 400,000 removals each 
year, a goal that the Obama administration has met in each of the past three 
years. But an estimated 11 million immigrants live here illegally.
The training asks ICE agents what they 
should do, for example, with a young illegal immigrant turned over to the agency 
after being arrested by a state trooper for driving without a license. She has 
been living in this country since 1993 and has an infant son, an American 
citizen because he was born here. But she lied to ICE officers, failing to tell 
them she had a conviction for shoplifting in 1995.
Answer: She is not a threatening 
criminal and may still be nursing her American baby. Officers should close her 
deportation case.
How about the migrant who has been 
living here since he crossed the Southwest border illegally in 1996? He failed 
to appear for a crucial immigration court hearing back then. But he has no 
criminal record, and he coaches soccer at the school where his twin daughters, 
both citizens, are enrolled.
Answer: This case, too, should be 
closed.
Then there is the man from an Asian 
Pacific island, a legal resident of the United States since 1984 who even served 
two distinguished combat tours in Iraq. But he left the military and is now 
finishing a six-year prison sentence for a federal sex-trafficking felony.
Answer: Despite his service, because 
of his grave sex offense he loses his resident status and will be sent by ICE to 
his birth country.
Cases against illegal immigrants who 
win favorable prosecutorial discretion will be closed but not canceled, so ICE 
can easily reopen them. Mr. Morton said the immigrants would remain in “legal 
limbo,” not gaining any legal immigration status.
Mr. Crane told Congress that the 
Morton directives presented enforcement agents with “a roller coaster of arrest 
authority that has changed from month to month, week to week and at times from 
day to day.” He said some agents were afraid to make any arrests.
It is not clear how deeply the union’s 
resistance reaches into ICE ranks. ICE officials say many field agents have been 
drawn to the professional appeal of the high-profile anticrime operations 
against foreign street gangs, drug dealers and sex offenders that the agency is 
conducting ever more frequently.
“Our folks understand that we have 
limited resources and we have to focus more than ever on our priorities,” said 
Chris Shanahan, the ICE field office director who oversees deportation 
operations in New York City, where all supervisors have had the training.
“What I see from my officers,” Mr. 
Shanahan said, “is that they understand that criminal aliens and national 
security threats should be taken into custody and removed before a single 
mother, a pregnant woman or someone with small United States citizen 
children.”


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Labor for 
Palestine 
www.laborforpalestine.net - info at laborforpalestine.net
Labor for Palestine: Support the Longview Caravan and stop 
union-busting!
Labor for Palestine expresses its strongest solidarity with the 
International Longshore and Warehouse Union and its workers in Longview, 
Washington. ILWU Local 21 in Longview is under attack by a major corporation, 
EGT, which is running a non-union grain terminal at the port, violating the port 
agreement with the ILWU, which has governed the port’s operations for over 75 
years.
The ILWU’s response to this union-busting attempt has been militant and 
strong, and the center of solidarity from the ongoing Occupy/Decolonize 
movements. If the ILWU’s jurisdiction is broken at the Port of Longview, union 
rights are under threat at container ports up and down the West Coast.
The ILWU struggle in Longview has drawn the attention and solidarity of 
popular movements across the U.S. and internationally as a central struggle for 
workers’ rights, and ILWU Local 10 of the Port of Oakland has been at the center 
of that organizing.
Occupy Oakland, working in solidarity with the ILWU, mobilized 30,000 people 
on November 2, 2011 to shut down the Port of Oakland in explicit solidarity with 
the struggle of Longview workers and the longshore workers of Oakland, and ports 
up and down the West Coast were shut down or protested on December 12, 2011 by 
Occupy movements in Seattle, Portland, Oakland and elsewhere, again in response 
to the ILWU battle in Longview.
ILWU Local 10 has itself come under attack by the Pacific Maritime 
Association, pursued in court because of its strong action against the 
destruction of public workers’ rights to organize in Wisconsin, shutting down 
the ports of San Francisco and Oakland for 24 hours on April 4, 2011. Despite 
threats to itself, ILWU Local 10 has once again stood in the front lines with 
ILWU Local 21 and in defense of the rights of all workers.The workers of 
Longview have faced massive repression; ILWU Local 21 has only 225 members, but 
220 arrests for participating in protests at the port to defend their union’s 
jurisdiction. They have brought over 1,000 people to the Port of Longview in 
protest, and inspired the Occupy protest actions at the ports up and down the 
West Coast.
Workers on the West Coast, including ILWU Locals 10 and 21 and the San 
Francisco and Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Labor Councils, have announced plans for 
a caravan to Longview to join the workers in protest when called to action 
(http://www.transportworkers.org/node/2101).
ILWU Local 10′s defense of their sisters and brothers in the Port of Longview 
reflects a long history of domestic and international solidarity.
West Coast dock-workers refused to handle cargo for Nazi Germany (1934) and 
fascist Italy (1935); refused shipping for apartheid South Africa in the San 
Francisco Bay Area (1984); and refused to load bombs for the Pinochet 
dictatorship in Chile (1978). ILWU workers at all twenty-nine West Coast ports 
held a May Day strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008.
On June 20, 2010, they respected a community picket by refusing to load an 
Israeli ZIM ship docked at the Port of Oakland. The picket came at the behest of 
calls from the Palestinian labor movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions 
and followed in the footsteps of multiple resolutions passed by ILWU Local 10 in 
support of Palestinian human and workers’ rights.
In the same spirit of solidarity, Labor for Palestine supports the call 
for the Longview Caravan. Just as the workers of the ILWU have stood in 
solidarity with Palestine, we stand with the workers of the ILWU in Longview, 
Oakland, and everywhere in their struggle to defend workers’ power and stop 
union-busting.

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Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime 
Debacle
The 
industrial giant jumped into the subprime business in 2004, lending blue-chip 
respectability to the market for risky home loans. READ MORE
Michael 
Hudson / The Center for Public Integrity
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"Daddy, What's a Union?" 10 Words Our Kids May Not 
Recognize
What 
will concepts like "civil liberties," "unions," and even "democracy" mean to our 
kids? READ MORE 
By 
David Sirota / AlterNet
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U.S. Economy Gains Steam as 200,000 Jobs Are Added
By SHAILA DEWAN 
A robust job growth number from the 
Labor Department came on the heels of a flurry of heartening economic news.

 
Market Response Tepid To U.S. Labor Report 
 
Economix: Economists Take Solace (but Only a Little) 
 
Video: TimesCast | Unemployment 
Rate Falls
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Indiana Labor Measure Is Expected to Progress
By MONICA DAVEY 
Republicans in the State Senate moved a 
"right to work" measure out of committee, and it is expected to pass next 
week.
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Labor Board Backs Workers on Joint Arbitration Cases
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE 
The National Labor Relations Board 
concluded that a federal law affirming the right of workers to engage in 
concerted action trumps any agreement barring group claims.
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A 
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this video presented by the National Nurses United promoting a financial 
transaction tax on Wall Street trading to help restore the economy. The video 
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
1. ‘A Nightmare on Wall 
Street’ – Nurses Premiere New Video
2. Organizing Victory -- 
Jackson Park Hospital RNs Vote to Join NNU
3. Nurses to Join Call 
for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday Rallies
4. Nurse Talk Radio Year 
in Review 
- 2011 Nurse Activism 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. ‘A 
Nightmare on Wall Street’ – Nurses Premiere New Video
To Kick Off Stepped Up Campaign to Tax Wall Street
To Help Spur 
Actions for the 99% and a Wall Street Tax to Heal America

Watch and share this video directly from YouTube here: http://youtu.be/esJ4Up1qyiU
Kicking off the new year in which the ongoing economic crisis will continue 
to plague millions of American families, the nation’s largest nurses’ 
organization today unveiled a dramatic short video, “A Nightmare on Wall Street” 
to renew the push for a tax on Wall Street speculation to raise critically 
needed funds to heal America. Watch and share the video below.

Read the full press release

2. 
Chicago Landslide—Jackson Park Hospital RNs Vote By 85 Percent to Join Nation’s 
Largest RN Union
Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s 
South Side voted by 85 percent Friday to join National Nurses United, the 
nation’s largest union and professional association of RNs. The Jackson Park RNs 
voted 94 to 16 to join NNU. The secret ballot election was conducted by the 
National Labor Relations Board. NNU will represent some 150 RNs at the 
hospital.
“This is a victory for the nurses and the South Side of Chicago. Together we 
realized unity is the best way to advocate for our patients and preserve respect 
for the registered nurse," said Jackson Park RN Leshaun Williams.
“I am so excited about our victory and what this means for the future of 
nursing at Jackson Park,” said Patricia Drake, a Jackson Park RN.

Read the full press release

3. 
Nurses to Join Call for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday 
Rallies
Actions in Sacramento, Los Angeles to Challenge Insurance 
Giants,
Seek Passage of Bill to Extend Guaranteed Care to All 
Californians
A broad coalition of activists – including registered nurses, medical 
students, seniors, physicians, members of the Occupy movement, and the recently 
formed Campaign for a Health California (CHC) – will hold marches and rallies 
Monday, January 9 in Sacramento and Los Angeles to step up the campaign to 
extend guaranteed healthcare coverage to all Californians.

Learn more at the all new "Campaign for a Healthy California" 
website

4. 
Nurse Talk Radio Year in Review - 2011 Nurse 
Activism 
So much happened this past year: nurses joined the protests in Madison, 
Wisconsin; went on to the nation’s capitol to march outside the U.S. Chamber of 
Commerce; hit Wall Street to demand a transaction tax—before Occupy even pitched 
a tent; announced the Main Street Contract; fought for RN-patient ratios; joined 
world leaders at the G-20 summit in Cannes; and 20,000 RNs staged a one-day 
walk-out against Sutter Health Corp. in Northern California…whew! And all the 
while spending 40+ hours a week caring for their patients.

Hear what NNU nurses did the change the world in 
2011
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Happy New Year Everyone!
Jean Ross, Karen Higgins, and 
Deborah Burger
Registered Nurses and NNU 
Co-Presidents
National Nurses United
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 
1100
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.NationalNursesUnited.org
   




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