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Mitt: Try Living on $49,455‏Boeing Departure Shakes Wichita's Identity as Airplane Capital Poverty Wages and Highly Unstable Schedules for NYC Retail Employee  WW Meeting on Iran & Occupy4Jobs Saturday!‏California Continues Plans to Reduce Programs for Children  Make "Darigreed" listen to workers. Workers will hand petition in next Friday!‏NAFTA complaint filed by Mexican Electrical Workers‏Survey: Tell us what you want‏Don't Take Vote Away from Seniors‏Gingrich Surges With Old, Familiar Ploy: Racist Attacks on Poor People   
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What could the policies of Republican presidential candidates lead to for workers? Jon Stewart takes a look.You can be rich and still relate to working people. But Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is both really rich and really out of touch. He calls his $374,000 annual speaking fees “not very much”—but with a median wage of $49,455 a year, Romney’s speaking fees alone could support a family of four for more than seven years.
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Boeing Departure Shakes Wichita's Identity as Airplane CapitalBy A.G. SULZBERGERThere is a growing fear that Wichita, Kan., is at risk of losing its identity as one of those American places where people make things and are paid well for it.
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1 attachment (1.1 KB)message-f...txtDownload(1.1 KB)Download as zipWorkers World Meeting: Focus on Iran & Occupy4JobsSaturday January 21st - 6 pm
@ 1905 Rodeo Road in Los Angeles
(just 1 block south of Exposition, 1 block east of Arlington)Contact: 323-306-6240This week's topics:U.S. war threats and assassinations target Iranreport from John Parker who recently visited IranDespite distorted December jobs figures unemployment crisis worseningOccupy4Jobs campaign's national actions and plans for LA - report from Michael Martinez who participated in this week's well publicized New York City bank occupation.

As the economic capitalist crisis deepens so to does the threat of war on Iran, in addition to ever increasing cutbacks and austerity programs demanded by banks against working people here in the U.S.The latest targeting of Iranian nuclear scientists by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the behest of the U.S. government led to another assassination hailed, if not orchestrated, by Israel and the U.S.Come hear about efforts by anti-war and social justice activists who've called for demonstrations in February to stop the war drive and plans by Occupy4Jobs to promote "no business as usual" actions nationwide demanding a real jobs program and no money for war.Following is a statement by Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark on Iran:Stop the campaign of terror against Iran and its scientists!Sign on to this urgent message       Donate to support actions in solidarity with Iran    Another Iranian Scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, has been assassinated in Iran by a car bomb.  This is the fifth Iranian scientist targeted by assassins working in Iran in two years. Four attacks succeeded. This is a deadly escalation of the covert criminal activities conducted by the U.S., Israel and their terrorists and domestic spies in Iran against the government and people of Iran. 

While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has denied any U.S. involvement, the important and undeniable truth is that the governments of the U.S. and Israel have openly declared Iran as an enemy and have publicly stated that they will use all means necessary, not excluding military attack, to change the Iranian government using Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear energy as an excuse. 

The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists is an effort to create fear in the Iranian people, opposition to their own government and monopolize nuclear research and development of nuclear power. The aim is to stop Iran’s drive for industrial and technological independence on which the independence of Iran and the freedom of its people depends. 

Those who forget the past are condemned to its repetition. Do we remember the Shah, who ruled Iran for 25 years on behalf of the U.S., had a huge nuclear energy program intended to replace depleted fossil fuels? Do we realize his billions of dollars of arms purchased from the U.S. with wealth of the Iranian people helped fund U.S arms research, development and production that now threaten Iran? 

In the decades since the Shah fled, sanctions, sabotage and threats have escalated into dangerous new decisions to send a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier, destroyers and nuclear submarines into the Persian Gulf and impose harsher sanctions on trade, and an oil embargo. All of these threats are threats against peace and violations of international law. 

A just society can have no interest in stopping the peaceful progress of other nations and peoples.  

No to another war for oil, no to foreign government domination and foreign corporate exploitation of Iran, or any other country.  

Ramsey Clark

We urge all who oppose another war of ever greater massive destruction and death to speak out and act in this hour of maximum peril. 

Click here to sign on to this statement 

Donate to support actions in solidarity with Iran.Visit StopWarOnIran.orgInternational Action Centerc/o Solidarity Center
55 West 17th St 5C
New York, NY 10010
1-212-633-6646
www.iacenter.org
email: iacenter at iacenter.org | En Español: iac-cai at iacenter.org
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California Continues Plans to Reduce Programs for Children
Governor Brown continued pursuing his fiscal plans for California in his State of the State speech Wednesday.   He continues cutting programs for those most in need and will be asking voters in November to temporarily raise taxes or he will slash billions more from education programs.
“In his State of the State speech Governor Brown said California is on the mend, yet his budget proposals continue to impact the poor disproportionately,” said Edward "Ned" Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference.  “And while a slow economic recovery prolongs the fiscal pain for most Californians, the Governor’s proposed 2012-13 budget continues a multi-year trend of reducing critical services for children, the elderly, the blind, the disabled and those most in need.
“Scarce resources mean difficult choices and shared sacrifice for all who participate in our society,” he continued.  “But too much of that sacrifice in recent years has fallen on our children.  Proposals that hurt low-income children – such as reducing funding by $946 million for parents who are trying to find work or eliminating supplemental funding for Child Nutrition Program at private schools and child care centers – intensifies the struggle for families and jeopardizes our children’s welfare.”
Read the entire statement here or contact Steve Pehanich, spehanich at cacatholic.org, for more information.
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Make “Darigreed” listen to workers. 

Workers will hand petition in next Friday!
Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold label are going through hell and need your help. Workers have repeatedly tried to appeal to Darigold about the reported abuses workers who labor to produce their product face, but Darigold remains silent.

Help us up the pressure. Workers say that more than a third of them have been fired after they dared asked to have a union. They’re suing the dairy for wage and hour violations and even assault. According to workers, the dairy owner, supported by multi-million dollar loan from a major lender, carries a rifle in his truck and has threatened workers. According to former employee Miguel Cuevas,  the owner told Cuevas, "This rifle is for those people with the union." 

Next Friday, January 27, Ruby Ridge workers are going to Darigold's headquarters to deliver thousands of petition signatures. Ruby Ridge workers  will be joined by UFW supporters, including dozens from the Decolonize/Occupy Seattle movement as they deliver the petitions. While most farm workers aren’t in the urban occupy actions, the fight they are in is the same fight against corporate greed that has led to the occupy movement. They are part of the 99%.

If you are in Seattle, please join us.  If not, join us virtually by signing the petition today.  To sign the petition fill in the information in the right-hand column and click the grey "submit form" button. To really put the pressure on Darigold, we need to have as many names as possible on the petition by the time workers turn it in. So far we have more than 15,000 signatures. Please take a moment right now and sign the petition and help us get to 20,000.Si Se Puede!
http://action.ufw.org/dgpetitionAfter you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/orTwitter page by clicking here or going tohttp://action.ufw.org/page/share/darigoldoccupy.
January 27, 2012
2 pm Rally at Westlake
March to Darigold Headquarters
at 1130 Rainier Ave. South, Seattle, WA
RSVP TODAY!___________________________
Why Darigold?Ruby Ridge is part of the Darigold cooperative, a large dairy processing company headquartered in Seattle, WA.The milk the dairy produces is marketed under the Darigold brand.http://consumer.darigold.com/locations.htmlDarigold products include milk, butter, and yogurt. You can see where Darigold products are sold by visiting their website byclicking here.Campaign Background
Ruby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization cards asking the UFW to represent them. Workers complained about not being allowed to take breaks, eat lunch, and having to drink water out of a hose used to wash cow manure off the dairy floor. They tell us they continue to not to have any benefits above and beyond an hourly wage. They report that owner Dick Bengen has often carried a rifle with him on his large dairy farm that he uses to scare the workers into line. Mr. Bengen made a point of explaining the special purpose of this rifle to worker Miguel Cuevas, when he told him, "This rifle is for those people with the union."
...MOREKeep up with the Ruby Ridge campaign at: www.ufw.org/rubyridge.
Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news.Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Cause,YouTube, Flickr, MySpace,and Care2 pages. Please link to us and become our "Friend" and follow us on Twittertoo!If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve.If you want to change your mailing address and/or phone number click hereIf you want to receive our alerts at a different e-mail address, send an e-mail to ufwofamer at aol.comPlease add us to your safelist: Please add ufwofamer at aol.com to your address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail.Privacy PolicyTo unsubscribe, go to: http://action.ufw.org/unsubscribeThis email was sent to cgpelayo at hotmail.com.United Farm Workers,  P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org

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Mexico City is the site of the next Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America - ESNA 5 - May 21 - 23, 2012. For more information on ESNA go to: http://encuentrosindical.org/?p=4428CLC pleased with developments for Mexican electrical workers: Canadian and American offices accept complaint under NAFTAPosted: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 OTTAWA – The Canadian Labour Congress says it is pleased that a complaint by the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME) against their government will be heard in both Canada and the United States under the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC).“This is a positive development and we hope that it will convince the Mexican government to negotiate in good faith with the workers who they have treated so scandalously,” says Hassan Yussuff, CLC Secretary-Treasurer. 
In October 2009, the Mexican government extinguished Central Light and Power (LyFC), one of Mexico’s two state-owned utility companies. The decree led to the termination of LyFC’s 44,362 unionized workers (the SME’s entire working membership), as well as the SME’s collective agreement and bargaining rights. The government used police and soldiers to occupy and shut down LyFC’s headquarters and hundreds of its workplaces, and also harassed and intimidated the union and its members.Since the extinction of LyFC, the Mexican government has been running the operations of LyFC and has been providing the same power services previously provided by LyFC, through the use of non-unionized employees and hundreds of non-unionized subcontractors.Yussuff says, “We believe this was a violation of Mexico’s labour laws and its constitution. It was also a violation of Mexico’s responsibilities under the labour side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).”
The Mexican union, along with the CLC, the United Steelworkers and more than 80 other unions and non-government organizations from across North America, submitted an official complaint to the National Administrative Offices (NAOs) in Canada and the U.S. under the NAALC. The parties have now been informed that the offices in both Canada and the U.S. have accepted the complaints and will proceed to review them.
Yussuff adds, “This development comes at an important time because it will add to the pressure being placed on the Mexican government.” The government has been negotiating with the union to either reinstate or re-employ more than 16,000 workers who had refused to take a severance package after their company was unilaterally shut down. But government negotiators have been backsliding and the workers fear that the government will renege on its promises.
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Jan. 20, 2012
Some 285 Cablevision employees in Brooklyn are voting next week on whether to join CWA, despite efforts by a corporate union-buster to stop them from forming a union.Over the past year, GOP-controlled state houses have been passing Voter ID laws, making it harder for many people, including America's seniors, to vote. Alliance for Retired Americans President Barbara Easterling says this is an outrage: “Our generation, like those who came before us, fought and died for the right to vote. We must never let politicians take this away.”
 Cablevision Workers Stay Strong in Tough Battle to Form Union IN Republicans Can't Seize Dems' Pay Citizens United Further Tilted Playing Field to 1% Gov. Daniels: Against 'Right to Work' Before He Was for It Growing Inquality = A Less Healthy Nation Union Plus Scholarship Deadline: Jan. 31Read more important news of the day on the issues working families care about.Follow the AFL-CIO:
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Gingrich Surges With Old, Familiar Ploy: Racist Attacks on Poor PeopleSeth Freed Wessler, ColorLines.com: "Newt Gingrich has done as much to wreck the federal safety net and translate the Southern Strategy into the post-racial era as anyone in Washington. His chances of gaining the Republican nomination are slim, but the war against poor people that Gingrich has lead is well entrenched. Regardless of who wins the GOP nomination, Gingrich’s legacy will carry on." Read the Article 

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