[Educationforall] spam con huevos labor news, views and concerns, 3.25.12‏‏‏‏‏-I‏‏

[Carlos Pelayo]

West Coast "Green" Jobs Data Shows Promise  3/25 San Francisco, CA: Undocumented immigrant loses battle against BofA If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?  The Wisconsin Story: Scott Walker's Unprecedented Assault on Unions and Democracy And the June 5th Recall Vote
The JOBS Act: Dumbest 'Bipartisan' Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall  
Portugal: Transport Workers Strike 
California State University System to Eliminate 20,000 + Students + Uncounted Faculty ( a get out the vote ploy) The Coming Failure of the UAW to Extort Dues from UAW Workers,Selling their Labor to Bosses The Torment and Demise of the United Auto Workers Union as Performed
by the Auto Bosses, the Labor Leaders, Counterfeit Radicals, Fictional
Revolutionaries, and All Those Who Know They Are Not Innocent EitherThe Counterfeit Tax Fight of CTA, CFT In California  
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8089-west-coast-green-jobs-data-shows-promise

West Coast "Green" Jobs Data Shows PromiseMaria Galluci, Inside Climate News: "A group of West Coast leaders has made its first attempt to quantify how many jobs have been spurred by the clean economy, a sector that includes engineers who design solar, wind and efficiency technologies and the electricians who install them - as well as train conductors, recycling collectors and organic farmers." Read the Article 

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Undocumented immigrant loses battle against BofABy Marcos Breton Sacramento Bee 
mbreton at sacbee.comSunday, Mar. 25, 2012 http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/25/4364009/marcos-breton-undocumented-immigrant.htmlIn this case of David vs. Goliath, Goliath wins.An undocumented immigrant from Mexico suesBank of America after he's nearly deported when his bank manager turns him over to authorities.Lawyers for Luis Martinez ask: Do you want your banker acting as a de facto immigration agent?They file a complaint on Martinez's behalf in federal court alleging negligence, discrimination and other civil rights offenses by BofA.But on Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco, Charles E. Breyer, brought a stop to it all, granting Bank of America's motion to dismiss Martinez's complaint.The bank's lawyers persuaded the judge to throw out the case based on a California statute that allows a defendant to make a motion to dismiss a suit if it is based on activity protected by the Constitution."Reporting suspected criminal activity to the police is a protected activity," Breyer wrote.And what criminal activity was that? The 34-year-old Martinez was never prosecuted for any crimes by Yuba County authorities. He was turned over to federal immigration authorities, who began deportation proceedings on him – but that never should have happened.Just months after Martinez's arrest, John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, instructed his agency to consider a range of factors when exercising prosecutorial discretion. They include whether the immigrant has lived in the United States for years, avoided trouble with the law, avoided previous deportations and has a child who is a U.S. citizen.Martinez qualifies on all counts. The federal goal is to prosecute the rapist and the drug dealerover the gardener and the cook.It didn't matter in Martinez's case.BofA invoked California's anti-SLAPP statute – SLAPP being an acronym for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Individuals typically use the statute to dismiss cases that threaten their First Amendment rights.In this case, lawyers for the biggest bank in America won on a free speech defense.The outcome illustrates what is wrong with our immigration laws. States like California have a strong need for cheap labor in industries such as agriculture, hospitality and gardening services, the very types of jobs Martinez always did.But there is no way for law-abiding immigrants such as Martinez to establish legal residency in the United States in our "deport them all" political culture.Martinez had been a client of BofA for 14 years. He had a mortgage and two other accounts with the bank and had lived a quiet, hardworking life as a cook and gardener in Sacramento.His incarceration destroyed his finances and subjected his family to the foreclosure of their home. When he was arrested in February 2011 at a BofA branch in Marysville, he said, his 6-year-old daughter watched in horror as her father was handcuffed. He was soon shipped to a federal jail inNew Mexico. The soft-spoken Martinez still weeps at the memory of his ordeal.Through his hard work here, he had bought a house and said he had taxes taken out of his checks for years. This is a point that should be noted for those who feel guys like Martinez are ripping off the system.And, despite the national furor over immigration, banks blatantly have catered to immigrant customers.If you're an immigrant, you don't have to show U.S. identification to open an account. You can use ID from your own country."Reports have stated that in some cases, illegal immigrants are able to sign up for the bank's products and services. These reports are true," Ken Lewis, BofA's former chief executive officer, said in a 2007 Wall Street Journal commentary. Why?It's big business. Fox News reported that more than $21 billion was sent from the United States toMexico in 2010.But in his ruling, Breyer wrote: "Martinez has not alleged that the Bank made any representations specifically to him about the availability of banking services to undocumented immigrants."Yeah, your honor. Banks, employers, politicians and others don't advertise that they do business with the undocumented.They just do it.Meanwhile, Martinez was actually guileless enough to use the same fake Social Security card he had used for years – the one in his name. The U.S. Supreme Court and other courts have ruled recently that such use of Social Security cards is not a crime or identity theft.In fact, the act of being in the United States without documentation is, in many instances, a civil matter, not a criminal offense.Yet Martinez's life was destroyed anyway. Unmoved, Breyer wrote: "It is obvious from the complaint that the Marysville Police arrested him for something."Yeah, they arrested Martinez because the bank called the cops on him.He's undocumented, which means everyone makes money off you and then you have no legal recourse when they take everything away.Hopefully, BofA won't stick Martinez with legal fees, too.  ============================================================================== 
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The Wisconsin Story: Scott Walker's Unprecedented Assault on Unions and Democracy And the June 5th Recall VoteThe GOP's unrepentant assault on public employees, unions and the democratic process has all led up to the June 5 recall vote. READ MOREBrendan Fischer / AlterNet
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http://www.alternet.org/story/154601/if_we_let_health_care_workers_lose_their_jobs_and_homes%2C_who%27s_left_to_care_for_us_?akid=8463.16102.mv18o6&rd=1&t=15

-If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?Faced with cuts in programs and stripped of their bargaining rights, home care workers are trying to maintain the activist vigor of their scrappy past. READ MORE
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http://www.alternet.org/story/154670/the_jobs_act%3A_dumbest_%27bipartisan%27_move_since_repealing_glass-steagall?akid=8463.16102.mv18o6&rd=1&t=18

-The JOBS Act: Dumbest 'Bipartisan' Move Since Repealing Glass-SteagallThe so-called "JOBS Act," introduced by the far-right Republicans and passed by members of both parties, opens the door to yet more corporate abuse. READ MOREBy Richard (RJ) Eskow / Campaign for America's Future
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Portugal: Transport Workers Strike The Lisbon subway and some of
Portugal’s major rail and ferry routes were shut down Thursday as
workers staged a strike to protest labor law changes and austerity
cuts.  
 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/world/europe/portugal-strike-disrupts-transportation.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
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California State University System to Eliminate 20,000 + Students +
Uncounted Faculty ( a get out the vote ploy) California State University will accept no new admissions for the spring semester of
2013 - with a few exceptions - as part of a drastic cost-cutting
strategy to reduce enrollment by about 16,000 students next spring,
officials said Monday. 
Another 20,000 to 25,000 qualified students could be barred from
attending CSU in the 2013-14 academic year if voters reject a proposed
tax measure that hasn't yet qualified for the November ballot.
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/19/BAPL1NN1KR.DTL
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The Coming Failure of the UAW to Extort Dues from UAW Workers,
Selling their Labor to Bosses The United Auto Workers union is soliciting signatures of support from workers at Volkswagen AG's U.S.
factory, an escalation of its effort to establish a foothold outside
the Detroit automakers.

In early March, the UAW started passing out authorization cards for
workers to sign in an early formal step needed for union
representation, workers at the factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, told
Reuters. 
UAW President Bob King has said organizing U.S. plants run by foreign
automakers, known in the industry as transplants, is crucial for the
union's survival. 
After three decades of declining membership, the UAW faces a financial
crunch that has been exacerbated by the U.S. economic downturn. This
has forced America's richest union to sell assets and dip into its
strike fund to pay for activities.  
 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/us-uaw-vw-idUSBRE82M00M20120323


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by the Auto Bosses, the Labor Leaders, Counterfeit Radicals, Fictional
Revolutionaries, and All Those Who Know They Are Not Innocent Either
http://clogic.eserver.org/2006/gibson.html [24]


@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@The Counterfeit Tax Fight of CTA, CFT In CaliforniaCFT and CTA/NEA are carrying on a shadow boxing match over whose proposal is a better
method to fool school workers into ballot boxes and the interim
electoral frenzy that leads up to the vote. NEA will likely put 60
million dollars into the campaign, and hundreds of thousand of
volunteer hours-people filtered away from real unionism, school
workers and other unionites becoming tools of their own oppression. 
Last year, the California Teachers Association spent more than $6
million in their electoral shams, with nearly nothing going on. 
The two unions' main problems are (1) locking down support for the
demagogue, Obama, and his wars, and bailouts-as well as the NDAA and
Arne Duncan's expansion of schools as human munition factories. 
(2) The state affiliates have problems, like the shifts to "right to
work" laws in states that would radically reduce union tops' dues
income (when unionites say "save collective bargaining, they really
mean, "save our chance to force people to pay dues---a la Wisconsin,
they have always been prepared to give up everything else). The unions
were never created by majority state wide citizen votes, but by direct
action on the job. But the last thing the union bosses want is a mass
of class conscious workers so the last thing they are planning to do
is shut down states that pass those laws. 
California has a real budget problem that both CTA and CFT address in
counterfeit fashion, below. 
Third, the union bosses need to create an illusion of local action
where there is really no action, like the Moveon scheme to train
100,000 people in "Non-violent" action---as distinct from the direct
action that is necessary, mass strikes and general strikes, student
strikes, and mutinies in the military. Moveon, a Democratic Party
front, like Truthout, also serves as a bodyguard of illusions,
preserving capitalism and its shaky empire.  
http://richgibson.com/taxfight.htm [25]


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