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Shuler: Inclusiveness Vital to Unions' Future SNA 2012 Round-Up Videos and More...‏ Comunicado de directivos sindicales de FENACTRALBECA ante situación en Helados EFE‏  Now's the time to get your degree at the Labor College‏Immigrant Workers Prevail in Workplace Justice Campaign at Brooklyn Hummus Producer‏ More Workers Killed on Job in a Year Than 9 Years of Iraq War; One Case Shows How  Do Your Friends and Neighbors Know About Dirty DeMaio?‏ 
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May 22, 2012
George Washington University senior Isaiah Toney says the nation’s massive student debt hurts the entire economy.The future of the union movement depends on showing the public that “through our actions on the ground we are broad, inclusive, innovative worker-driven organizations,” AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler this morning told some 600 members of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC).

Read more and comment.  Student Debt Hurts Our Communities, Our Nation Craig Becker Named AFL-CIO Co-General Counsel Is Income Inequality a Partisan Issue? Bill Lucy Steps Down from CBTURead more important news of the day on the issues working families care about.Follow the AFL-CIO:
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More than 6,000 nurses and activists gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago Friday to rock out withmusician Tom Morello and call for a tax on financial speculation  — a Robin Hood tax. This small sales tax on Wall Street trades could raise up to $350 billion a year in the U.S., money that American communities desperately need.

“It’s time for Wall Street to start paying what all the rest of us pay,” Karen Higgins, RN, told a cheering crowd, many wearing red nurse scrubs and green Robin Hood caps.  Higgins, who works as a registered nurse in Boston, is co-president of National Nurses United, the country’s largest registered nurses’ union, which organized the rally. Read the full blog here.2. VIDEO ROUND-UP: See and Share Videos from our May 18 Rally in Chicago
Watch & share our rally video: Nurses Push for a Robin Hood Tax - Chicago SNA, May 18, 2012Additional videos to watch and share:Tom Morello performs at Nurse Rally in Chicago May 18
Original: "Worldwide Rebel Song"Nurses Perform RN Flash Mob at Robin Hood Rally to Tax Wall Street
New York Times videoBill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax
How the Robin Hood Tax Works3. READ ALL ABOUT IT: See and Share News Clips from Historic G8 ProtestNurses in Robin Hood Hats Make Cover of the Chicago Tribune Following May 18 Rally
Select a size you like and right click to save this photoNurses (yes, nurses) lead charge for Wall Street 'sin' tax
MSNBC.com, 05/18/12

Nurses Lead NATO Protest for ‘Robin Hood Tax’
In These Times, 05/19/12See photo gallery by the Chicago Sun times
Chicago Sun Times, 05/18/12Nurses Push for “Robin Hood” Tax on Wall Street
Care2.com, 05/18/12Nurses Out To Save The Country
Technorati.com Politics, 05/21/124. FLICKR PICS: See, Share, and Download Rally Photos FreeClick this link to view photos you like on Flickr, and then right click on photos you want, to save them.UNSUBSCRIBE | www.NationalNursesUnited.org | www.MainStreetContract.org
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Comunicado de directivos sindicales de FENACTRALBECA ante situación en Helados EFEEscrito por directivos sindicales de FENACTRALBECA   Martes 22 de Mayo de 2012 En el presente comunicado, que ha llegado a nuestra redacción el día de hoy, directivos sindicales de la Federación Nacional Clasista de Trabajadores de Alimentos, Bebidas, Conexos y Afines, manifiestan su total repudio y condena al amedentramiento y acoso del que ha sido objeto el compañero Abraham Rivas, Secretario General de dicha federación, así como también, exigen que se haga justicia ante este nuevo ataque vil de los patronos contra la dirigencia del movimiento obrero revolucionario venezolano. Comunicado:Los Directivos sindicales integrantes de la FEDERACION NACIONAL CLASISTA DE TRABAJADORES  DE ALIMENTOS, BEBIDAS, CONEXOS Y AFINES (FENACTRALBECA), que agrupa a trabajadores del grupo Polar; queremos expresar nuestro repudio y rechazo por la persecución y el hostigamiento desatado contra nuestro compañero Abraham Rivas Directivo del Sindicato de Trabajadores de Helados Efe y también Secretario General de nuestra Federación, donde una  persona presuntamente fue detenido en el interior de planta EFE, portando un arma de fuego y teniendo en su poder información personal  confidencial de Abraham, sin que hasta la fecha este ciudadano haya podido explicar la intención de su presencia allí ni la forma como obtuvo esta información.
También queremos rechazar la actitud permisiva e indiferente de algunos integrantes de las instituciones que deben garantizar el cumplimiento de las leyes y la aplicación de justicia en igualdad de condiciones para todos los ciudadanos, pedimos que se aplique todo el peso de la ley para los posibles actores intelectuales y materiales de este intento de sicariato contra nuestro compañero Abraham Rivas.
Esta persecución y acoso no es solo contra el camarada Abraham; sino contra todos los integrantes de FENACTRALBECA, por lo cual nos declaramos en asamblea permanente hasta que los culpables se encuestren juzgados y tras las rejas, garantizando la seguridad e integridad física para nuestro compañero Abraham Rivas, su familia y para todos los trabajadores de Venezuela ya que la lucha sindical reivindicativa y progresista para construir un mejor país con justicia, igualdad y prosperidad no puede significar una sentencia de muerte.¡NO AL SICARIATO PATRONAL, NO A LA CRIMINALIZACION DE LA PROTESTA, NO A LA IMPUNIDAD!¡JUSTICIA, JUSTICIA, JUSTICIA JUSTICIA YA!!!!!
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Alejandro Garcia, IBEW Local 357, is an NLC student and a Union Plus NLC Scholarship recipient.Want to join him?

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Immigrant Workers Prevail in Workplace Justice Campaign
at Brooklyn Hummus Producer
Brandworkers
Posted by dsalaborblogmoderator
Talking Union
Democratic Socialists of America Blog
May 19, 2012
http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/immigrant-workers-prevail-in-workplace-justice-campaign-at-brooklyn-hummus-producer/

Large settlement and code of conduct represent biggest
victory yet in Focus on the Food Chain campaign to
improve New York City's food processing and
distribution sector

New York, NY- After enduring a withering worker-led
campaign, Flaum Appetizing, a prominent producer and
distributor of hummus and other kosher food products,
has accepted a global settlement which will return
$577,000 in unpaid wages and other compensation to
workers and subject the Brooklyn-based factory to a
binding code of conduct protecting workplace rights.

The victory comes after the workers' group, Focus on
the Food Chain, in partnership with Orthodox social
justice organization, Uri L'Tzedek, persuaded over 120
grocery store locations in New York City to stop
selling Flaum products, including its Sonny & Joe's
hummus, until workers' rights were respected. The win
is the biggest yet for Focus on the Food Chain, a joint
effort of Brandworkers and the NYC Industrial Workers
of the World, dedicated to creating good jobs and a
sustainable food system in New York City's food
processing and distribution sector.

"More than anything, I want fellow workers in the food
factories and warehouses to know that there is real
power in coming together and struggling together," said
Maria Corona, a Focus on the Food Chain member and
Flaum worker who had been illegally fired. "We won the
respect we deserve and you can too."

Flaum Appetizing entered 2012 hobbled by the labor
dispute. In addition to getting Flaum products off
grocery store shelves, workers organized rabbinical
delegations and an international day of action to
persuade Tnuva, the world's largest kosher cheese
brand, to discontinue its relationship with Flaum.
Tnuva, owned by private equity giant Apax Partners, was
distributed to New York supermarkets by Flaum and
constituted a significant portion of Flaum's revenues.

In January, the National Labor Relations Board in
Washington, D.C. ruled against Flaum's attempt to make
discriminatory immigration status allegations against
the workers who are from Latin America. The decision
set an important precedent for immigrant workers
nationwide by erecting procedural safeguards in cases
involving the landmark anti-immigrant Supreme Court
case, Hoffman Plastic.

"New York City's food processing and distribution
sector could help lift the economy with good jobs and
provide healthy, local food with a smaller ecological
footprint," said Daniel Gross, a workers' rights'
attorney and the executive director of Brandworkers.

"Instead, the business model in this critical part of
the food supply chain increasingly relies on cutting
corners and exploiting immigrant workers of color. With
their exemplary victory, the Flaum workers have shown
that abusive workplaces in this sector can be
transformed through organizing, grassroots advocacy,
and litigation."

Flaum maintained deplorable working conditions for over
a decade. Workers were subjected to massive wage theft
including a failure to pay overtime and at times the
minimum wage, for grueling work weeks as long as eighty
hours. Workers faced discrimination and abuse including
anti-immigrant insults from senior management. When
workers demanded payment in accordance with the law,
seventeen were illegally fired. Though Flaum lost an
NLRB trial over the firings, it had resisted compliance
with cynical and unfounded allegations about immigration
status. This global settlement resolves both the NLRB
retaliation litigation and a large federal lawsuit over
unpaid minimum wage and overtime.

"We are grateful to the grocery stores and Tnuva for
standing up for the rule of law and supplier
responsibility," said Rabbi Ari Hart, co-founder of Uri
L'Tzedek. "The Torah calls on us to fight for justice.
Many rabbis and community members stood with the
workers of Flaum and will continue to energetically
support an ethical food system. We are pleased that
Flaum has done the right thing and are heartened that
it has emerged as a better company."

New York grocery stores and restaurants are
increasingly dependent on an industrial corridor of
food processing factories and distribution warehouses
that hold down wages and safety standards through
pervasive legal violations. Wage theft, discrimination,
and health & safety hazards are common in the sector
which employs 35,000 workers, most of whom are recent
immigrants of color.

Focus on the Food Chain challenges these unlawful
conditions with grassroots organizing, worker-led
campaigns, and legal actions. The campaign is working
towards a food processing and distribution sector that
provides good jobs and contributes to a sustainable
local food system.

Brandworkers is a New York-based non-profit
organization protecting and advancing the rights of
retail and food employees. By training workers in
social change tools and facilitating member-led
workplace justice campaigns, Brandworkers promotes
employer compliance with the law and challenges
corporate misconduct in the community.

Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World is
a grassroots labor union dedicated to member-led
organizing and workplace democracy.

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More Workers Killed on Job in a Year Than 9 Years of Iraq War; One Case Shows HowBy Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet

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The Wal-Mart Corruption CaseA lawsuit brought by shareholders in Wal-Mart Stores against the company's executives and directors is tailor-made for the kind of wrongdoing being alleged.
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Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Los Lonely Boys, Del Castillo - ¡Claro Que Se Puede ! (Yes We Can!)Play videoWillie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Los Lonely Boys and Del Castillo's contribution the CD Project Of Love on the first single: ¡Claro Que Se Puede! (Yes We Can!), an Alberto Kreimerman's song in it's…00:05:32Added on 9/21/1017,371 views 
 TAKES ABOUT 1/2 HR ENJOY THE POLITICAL MENSAJE.... LOS LOBOS, CHENTE, MANA, LUIS MIGUEL, (these knuckel heads played AZ ignored the boycott)etc ARE YOU LISTENING ?.... Ramon Ayala, Intocable, y otros got the onda!!!!NEWEST VIDEO AND FORTHCOMING VIDEO...LETS SEE HOW MANY COMMERCIALRADIO STATIONS BE IT IN ESPANOL O INGLES WILL PLAY THIS ROLLAWillie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Los Lonely Boys, Del Castillo - ¡Claro Que Se Puede ! (Yes WeCan!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rleit7YFwIM 
Si Se Puede: A Pro-Immigrant Video by Carlos Santana et al.http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2012/05/si-se-puede-a-pro-immigrant-video-by-carlos-santana-et-al.html 

MIGRA MIGRA from the "supernatural album"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSq4KsCAXic&feature=related
LYRICS:

Migra Migra pinche Migra déjame en paz
Migra Migra pinche Migra déjame en paz
Malicia hay en tus ojos desprecio en tu corazón
Malicia hay en tus ojos desprecio en tu corazón
Es hora de reconocer que todos somos una voz
Abraza el concepto venimos de la misma voz
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
People people let's start together let's do it right
People people let's love one another I know we know how
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Me necesitas tú a mi más y más que yo a ti
Migra Migra pinche Migra déjame en paz
People people let's love one another I know we know how

COOL VIDEO
Carlos Santana dedicated to Jan Brewer 
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We are heading into the final stretch of the San Diego mayoral race and it is more important than ever that we reach out to as many people as possible about Carl “Dirty” DeMaio’s extreme ideas that will hurt working families while only helping his deep-pocketed corporate donors.

That’s why we are excited to invite you to be one of the first people to help us test and provide feedback about a great new online tool we are piloting called the Friends and Neighbors (FAN) program. The free tool will allow you to connect with your Facebook friends and other people you know about the mayoral and City Council races without having to leave home.

Click here now to sign up for free and start using the new FAN tool to make calls, send personalized mail and other messages to help us elect candidates who will fight for working families, not corporate interests.

DeMaio may have hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate donors he worked to help as a member of City Council to take over the taxpayer-owned convention center. But he doesn’t have our ability to reach out to people and talk to them about what is at stake on June 5. 

And, with the free FAN tool, it makes it even easier for you to connect with the people you know and other San Diegans to make sure your friends and neighbors know about DeMaio’s dirty deeds.

Click here now to be one of the first to test out this great new tool and tell us what you think.

Let’s show DeMaio in these final weeks leading up to Election Day on June 5 that we are ready to take our city back.

- San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council

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