[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news, views and concerns, 1.15.12-I

Mon Jan 16 01:48:57 UTC 2012

Job Growth Has Not Picked Up Enough to Rehire the Workers Let Go After the Recession  
After PA School District Goes Broke, Incredible Teachers Agree to Keep Teaching Without Pay  
Workers Now Have Right to Class-Action Lawsuits Against Bosses  

Workers to Face Coast Guard at Longview(1st time since the postal
strike the military mobilized to crush a strike) 
Nigeria's Working Class Threatens to Shut Down Oil after Days of
General Strike 
Bucks County PA Goes on Strike 
NEA Bosses Want to Start Their Merger Scam Again. Here is what
Happened the last Time: "NEA AFT AFL CIO? HELL NO! 
Henwood on Massive* *Constant Unemployment*  
Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline 
Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production

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Job Growth Has Not Picked Up Enough to Rehire the Workers Let Go After the Recession
Read the Article at MSNBC 

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After PA School District Goes Broke, Incredible Teachers Agree to Keep Teaching Without Pay

By Laura Clawson | Daily Kos

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Workers Now Have Right to Class-Action Lawsuits Against Bosses

The NLRB ruled that the right of employees to join collectively together to take action against their employees was a protected activity. READ MORE 
By Mike Elk / In These Times

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Workers to Face Coast Guard at Longview(1st time since the postal
strike the military mobilized to crush a strike)

The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the
Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor
groups say they are planning to greet the vessel with a massive
protest. EGT officials say they have not scheduled a date for the
ship's arrival. The freighter is expected to haul thousands of tons of
grain to Asia, but opposition groups are already marshaling their
forces to support the lengthy protest by union dock workers at the
grain terminal. "We just want to swell the population of the city to
show there are people behind us," said Jeff Washburn, president of the
Cowlitz Wahkiakum Central Labor Council, which passed a resolution
calling for a protest this week.  
http://tdn.com/news/local/protest-planned-for-first-ship-to-dock-at-egt-grain/article_e9b1d6e0-38d7-11e1-aac5-001871e3ce6c.html

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Nigeria's Working Class Threatens to Shut Down Oil after Days of
General Strike

Nigeria’s main oil union said Thursday that it would shut down oil production on Sunday if the government did not
reverse its decision to remove popular fuel subsidies. Nationwide
strikes prompted by the decision, which has doubled gas prices,
continued Thursday, as tens of thousands of people protested for the
fourth straight day. President Goodluck Jonathan met with labor unions
on Thursday to try to resolve the dispute. The president of one of the
largest unions, Abdulwaheed Omar of Nigeria Labor Congress, called the
talks “fruitful” and said they would meet again on Saturday.
Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer.  
 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/africa/nigeria-oil-workers-threaten-to-shut-off-crude-flow-in-protest.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

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Bucks County PA Goes on Strike

About 600 teachers at a large
suburban Philadelphia school district went on strike Monday after
working for three years without a contract. The teachers in the
Neshaminy School District in Bucks County haven't received any pay
increases since the last contract expired in 2008, but they pay
nothing toward their health insurance premiums. "We'd like to be in
the classrooms teaching," said Charlene Dixon, a fifth-grade teacher
who's going on strike for the first strike time in her 28 years
teaching. "We are ready and willing to negotiate. ... We want a fair
contract."  
 http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/01/teachers-philly-area-district-plan-walkout/2075931?utm_source=feedburner+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking&utm_medium=feed+Breaking+News&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking+%28Breaking+News%29feed&utm_content=feed&utm_term=feed

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NEA Bosses Want to Start Their Merger Scam Again. Here is what
Happened the last Time: "NEA AFT AFL CIO? HELL NO!

This essay assails one of the liberals' favorite projects in the 1990's, the manufacture
of a merger between the largest union in the United States, the
independent National Education Association, and the AFT-AFL-CIO. It
focuses on the particulars of the merger, often using the voices of
proponents and opposition forces, in part because the roots of change
are within the material details, and their interpretations, of
history. Because there are few radicals or revolutionaries operating
openly within the NEA, the critique goes mainly to the liberal drive
to unite the unions from the top. Even so, the absence of radicals and
revolutionaries in either union is a telling point about the state of
U.S. radicalism at the turn of the century.  
http://clogic.eserver.org/2-1/gibson.html [9]

The Merger Statement from NEA Boss John Wilson

The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers will
begin merger talks as they realize it is in the best interest of
sustainability and power as well as an efficient use of members' dues
dollars.  
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/john_wilson_unleashed/2012/01/my_predictions_for_2012.html

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Henwood on Massive, Constant Unemployment 

Employers added 200,000 jobs in December. Over a fifth of that gain, 42,000, came from
couriers and messengers—meaning all those FedEx and UPS folks
delivering holiday packages ordered from the likes of Amazon. Online
retailers had a great December. Not so much for brick and mortar
retailers, who’d apparently expected otherwise and hired
ambitiously, adding another 28,000 to the headline figure. Given the
ultimate disappointment of the holiday season, retail-store-wise, and
the explicitly temporary nature of the courier jobs, these
gains—which together accounted for over a third of the total—are
likely to be reversed in January. What I’ve been calling the eat,
drink, and get sick sector returned to its previous strength after
slipping in November, as bars and restaurants and health care together
added almost 50,000, a quarter of the total.  
http://lbo-news.com/2012/01/06/that-jobs-report/   

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Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Staff, Rethinking Schools: "What if many of our students - particularly our African American, Latina/o, Native American, and Southeast Asian children - are being channeled toward prison and a lifetime of second-class status? We believe that this is the case, and there is ample evidence to support that claim. What has come to be called the 'school-to-prison pipeline' is turning too many schools into pathways to incarceration rather than opportunity."
Read the Article 

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Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production
Jeff Nall, Toward Freedom: "Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence indicating that the laborers whom they have to thank for cultivating these products are being grossly exploited, live in spiraling poverty, and, in some cases, are modern-day slaves."
Read the Article 

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