[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news, views and concerns, 3.21.12‏‏‏‏‏-I‏II

[Carlos Pelayo]

Fired for going to the bathroom? > No se puede usar el bañoÇ‏ Job Seekers Getting Asked for Facebook Passwords  3/20: No Wal-Mart in LA Chinatown!‏ Millions Helped by Affordable Care Act‏ Making the Grade: The Case Against Tenure in Public Schools   
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Fired for going to the bathroom?John, port truck drivers in southern California working for the Australian owned Toll Group have been trying to unionize. Two weeks ago, Xiomara Perez, one of the truck drivers most outspoken in support of forming a union, was fired for taking an emergency bathroom break.

Click here to sign the petition telling the Toll Group to reinstate Xiomara Perez, let truck drivers take bathroom breaks, and stop intimidating union supporters.

It is illegal for a company to fire a worker for trying to join a union, but it happens all the time. The company doesn't admit that's the real reason for the firing, of course. It's just that coincidentally someone who's been an outspoken union supporter gets fired for a common practice that doesn't typically draw any disciplinary action, let alone firing. Companies do this because it removes a leader from the workplace and intimidates other workers who might support the union.

It is not coincidence that Xiomara Perez, who exactly fits that description, was targeted:
On Tuesday March 6th, Xiomara was driving to Rialto with a cargo load and began to feel slightly ill, thought she might throw up, and thus made an emergency detour. As a professional driver, Xiomara adheres to U.S. Department of Transportation regulations that require any hauler to pull over if they feel faint, fatigued, etc. – in other words, truckers must use their best judgment to protect their own safety, the public, and the merchandise they carry. She found a McDonald’s she was familiar with where she could freely use the restroom and get a sandwich to settle her stomach to continue her workday. She instantly felt better and got back on the road; the safety diversion took roughly 10 minutes at the most.[...]

Toll fired Xiomara, citing an unreasonably restrictive work policy prohibiting employees from stopping – even to use a restroom – when delivering a load. Xiomara had asked for the policy in writing but was denied.
A group of Xiomara's coworkers is sending Toll a letter calling for her reinstatement and the Teamsters have filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. Join with them by signing our petition calling on the Toll Group to reinstate Xiomara Perez, let truck drivers take bathroom breaks, and stop intimidating union supporters.

In solidarity,
Laura Clawson
Labor Editor, Daily Kos

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http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-20/business/31215793_1_social-networking-password-facebook

Job Seekers Getting Asked for Facebook Passwords
Read the Article at The Associated Press


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JUNE 30, 2012 - Los Angeles

It will be the largest Walmart demonstration in the history of the U.S.

Be there.


Time and gathering location to be announced soon.Download the flyer here.





May Day in L.A.
Workers Are Not Garbage!

American Reclamation has public contracts to sort commercial trash for recyclable materials. They treat the immigrants doing that dirty work worse than garbage.

Poverty wages. Hazardous working conditions. No benefits. Firings.

American Reclamation has turned our recycling symbol into a vicious cycle of human misery. On May 1, we will march and rally at American Reclamation. Together, we will stop them from treating immigrants like garbage.

Download the flyer here.

WHEN:  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 11:00AM
WHERE: American Reclamation located at 4560 Doran St., Los Angeles, CA 90039

Contact: Hector Saldivar at hsaldivar at launionaflcio.org or (213) 381-5611 x136.


Don't Forget! 
National Day of Action
Against Verizon
Join us - Thursday, March 22 - Long Beach
Last August, 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike, and they still don’t have a contract. Verizon continues to promote outsourcing and eliminating jobs while paying top corporate executives hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thursday, March 22 is a National Day of Action Against Verizon. We will rally outside Verizon in Long Beach and join Verizon workers in cities across the U.S. to save American middle-class jobs and stop Verizon's corporate greed!

Download the flyer here.

WHEN: Thursday, March 22 from 1:00-3:00PM
WHERE: Verizon Building at 3965 Clark Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90808

Contact: Glen Arnodo at glenarnodo at sbcglobal.net or (213) 381-5611 x126.




L.A. Labor in the News

Reality TV bites: "Blue collar" show fires its workers, Frying Pan News, 03/19/12

Rag picking in America?, Huffington Post, 03/16/12

The dark and seamy underbelly of the recycling industry, CleanTechnica.com, 03/16/12

Labor's take on the economy, New York Times, 03/15/12

Union's urge curtailment of 'Super PACs,' New York Times, 03/15/12

Hoffa pledges continued support of efforts to turn green jobs into good jobs, Sacramento Bee, 03/15/12

Company fires truck driver for taking an emergency bathroom break-while supporting a union, Daily Kos, 03/14/12

Senate OKs transportation bill (with good news for L.A.), Los Angeles Times, 03/14/12

AFL-CIO takes on voter I.D. laws, New York Times, 03/14/12

Citing shared values, AFL-CIO unions vote to endorse Obama for second term, 03/13/12

AFL-CIO 'enthusiastically' endorses Obama for reelection, Los Angeles Times, 03/13/12

AFL-CIO endorses Obama, New York Times, 03/13/12

Why Walmart loves welfare, Frying Pan News, 03/13/12

Richard Trumka's declaration of independence, In These Times, 03/12/12

Workers at California car washes form union, Latin American Herald Tribune, 03/12/12

Les Moonves says CBS doing 'extremely well'-but will unions benefit?, Hollywood Reporter, 03/11/12




Follow @LALabor on Twitter!

Keep up with the L.A. County Fed on Facebook!

Keep up with Maria Elena Durazo on Facebook!

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March 20, 2012
Some lawmakers in Georgia want to make picketing a serious crime. Even the tea party finds this appalling.The Affordable Care Act has helped millions of America’s families secure health care for their kids, saved 5.1 million Medicare recipients $3.2 billion in drug costs and so far has generated about$323 million in health insurance premium rebates. But Republicans want to kill the law and next week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on its constitutionality.
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The New Republic Daily Report
03/20/12

Making the Grade: The Case Against Tenure in Public Schools The Editors The Virginia legislature has been attracting a lot of justifiably harsh criticism lately for its foray into abortion politics. First, it was an outrageous bill that would have required women to undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound before having an abortion; then, following a national outcry, that measure morphed into a bill requiring only an external ultrasound. (The second bill, which was eventually signed into law, was somewhat less offensive—but still despicable.)Yet there was another noteworthy bill on an entirely different subject circulating in Richmond in recent weeks; and, with the spotlight focusing so squarely on the state’s approach to reproductive rights, it was perhaps no surprise that this measure didn’t attract much attention from the national press. Like the abortion measures, this bill was also pushed by Republicans—but here’s the strange part: It was actually a halfway decent idea. The subject of the bill was an important one: tenure for public school teachers. And, while the proposal wasn’t perfect, it was at least an attempt to rectify what is perhaps the least sane element of our country’s approach to education.The vast majority of states have long granted public school teachers tenure. The way it works is simple: After a certain number of years, teachers qualify—“virtually automatically” in most states, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality—for a form of job protection that makes it extremely difficult to fire them for the rest of their careers.The system is analogous to the protections that university professors receive—but with one important conceptual difference. Universities are not just educational institutions; they are our country’s idea factories. And so it makes a certain amount of sense that we would want university professors—the people our society relies on to explore ideas, including unpopular ones—to enjoy protections from ideological or intellectual retribution.But this rationale doesn’t apply at the K–12 level. So what is the case for K–12 teacher tenure? The truth is, there isn’t a good one. One argument typically offered by tenure defenders is that teaching is a notoriously difficult profession in which to measure success. But this is true for lots of jobs—yet, in all other professions, efforts are still made, however imperfect, to evaluate whether an employee is succeeding and to remove those who are not. Why should teaching be different? In fact, given that teaching is arguably the most important job in our society, it would be difficult to name a profession, save maybe the military, for which these sorts of heightened job protections would be less logical. If a job is truly important to the nation’s future, then you want to make sure that the most able, talented people are doing it—and doing their best work at all times.Continue Reading "The Case Against Tenure in Public Schools"      

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