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How Students are Painting Montreal Red  Top CEO Pay Equals 3,489 Years of Work for the Typical Worker  Asian Americans Suffer Most from Long-Term Unemployment Terence Flynn, Labor Board Member, Resigns After Leak Findings
Puerto Rico Failure of the State, a Wells Fargo Report‏  Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm Work Is Job Security Real Security? Gainful Unemployment May Be A Workable Alternative  cpm/1: RESUMEN INTEGRAL EJE MIGRACION TPP Canadian Pacific Rail On Strike   After Losing 2/3s of their Members, bargaining the worst contract in
teacher history, suspending the only militant DFT leaders, the fake
union promises a fight, well, a lawsuit they will lose disguised as a fight.
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How Students are Painting Montreal RedManissa McCleave Maharawal and Zoltán Glück, Waging Nonviolence: "The media in the United States have hardly noticed the Quebec student strike, despite it being the longest and largest in the history of North America. Those of us who have been following the movement have been amazed by the sheer numbers that these mass demonstrations have mobilized, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets on major days of action. What is less known, but equally important, is that every single night for the past month there have been marches of several thousand protesters."Read the Article 

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Top CEO Pay Equals 3,489 Years of Work for the Typical WorkerRead the Article at CBS News

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Asian Americans Suffer Most from Long-Term UnemploymentBy Jorge Rivas | ColorLines
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Terence Flynn, Labor Board Member, Resigns After Leak FindingsBy The Huffington Post News Editors | Huffington Post
NLRB Member Resigns Amid Leak Allegations

By MARY LU CARNEVALE

The Wall Street Journal
May 27, 2012, 5:59 p.m. ET

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A member of the National Labor Relations Board who
faces allegations of leaking information about pending
board decisions to a former adviser to Mitt Romney, is
stepping down, the NLRB said Sunday.

Terence Flynn, a Republican who has served on the five-
member board since Jan. 9, after a recess appointment
by President Barack Obama, submitted his resignation
letter to the president and to NLRB Chairman Mark
Pearce on Friday evening, the NLRB said. The brief
letter, dated May 25, didn't bring up the allegations.

"After eight years of government service, I have
determined that it is time to move on to other
opportunities," Mr. Flynn wrote. He said his
resignation would take effect July 24, but he
immediately recused himself from all agency activity
and requested that his nomination to the board be
withdrawn.

Earlier this month, the NLRB's inspector general
alleged in a report that Mr. Flynn released proprietary
information to former board member Peter Schaumber, who
had been an adviser to Mr. Romney, the presumptive GOP
presidential nominee. The report was made public by
Rep. George Miller of California, the top Democrat on
the House Education and the Workforce Committee. Mr.
Miller, along with Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) had
called for Mr. Flynn's resignation.

Barry Coburn, a lawyer for Mr. Flynn, said in a
statement that his client's "contacts with Mr.
Schaumber, his friend and former colleague, were not
illegal in any respect." Mr. Coburn called Mr. Flynn "a
dedicated public servant" who "does not deserve to be
publicly smeared," and warned that the "circumstances
are precisely what deter people like Mr. Flynn from
government service."

In March, NLRB Inspector General David Berry found that
Mr. Flynn had improperly provided information to two
former board members in 2010 and 2011 while he was a
staff attorney. The information included the status of
pending cases, case research and board members'
positions on cases.

The second IG report alleges that Mr. Flynn released a
nonpublic draft of a board majority decision and four
dissents, as well as other internal information
involving the processing of cases and issues by the
board.

Write to Mary Lu Carnevale at marylu.carnevale at wsj.com

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New York, NY 10011800-590-2516info at latinopolicy.org
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Board of DirectorsJosé R. Sánchez   ChairEdgar DeJesus   SecretaryIsrael Colon   TreasurerMaria Rivera   Development ChairHector Figueroa
Tanya K. Hernandez Angelo Falcón   President 

To make a donation,Mail check or money order to the above address to the order of "National Institute for Latino Policy"  Follow us onTwitter andAngelo's Facebook Page.   Special CommentaryUS: Puerto Rico:Failure of the StateBy Wells Fargo Research TeamWells Fargo (May 25 2012) To download full report, click here Executive Summary. The Puerto Rican economy has come a long way since it started to industrialize and modernize in the mid-1900s through what was called "Operation Bootstrap" in English, or "Operación Manos a la Obra" in Spanish. The process of industrialization was, by many measures, a success, even though some economic indicators have continued to point to many economic disequilibria that have persisted over time, such as a persistently high rate of unemployment as well as a high rate of inflation compared to the U.S. mainland, even though Puerto Rico uses the U.S. dollar as its currency and monetary policy is conducted by the U.S. Federal Reserve.  Authorities on the island have not been able to integrate the whole of the economy, as a large percentage of economic activity still happens underground in the informal sector. Several authors have written about this and have concluded that too much regulation, at the business permitting levels, labor regulations and the application of the U.S. minimum-wage law have kept the rate of unemployment high. Furthermore, many high-income individuals feel that they should not have to pay taxes or that they pay a disproportionate amount of taxes. This is not uncommon of an economy that has a large underground or informal economy, as governments tend to increase the tax burden on the "legal" or "formal" sectors of the economy because it is almost impossible to broaden the tax base and collect taxes from a larger number of individuals. By some estimates, the Puerto Rican underground economy is as large as 30 percent of all economic activity on the island. 1 The inability to eliminate this underground economy has had serious consequences for the economy at all levels and for the island's government, with its inability to collect taxes due to the limited tax base from "legal" tax payers. At a conference on the island at the end of the 1990s, an economist indicated that only about 10,000 Puerto Ricans say they earn more than $100,000 per year, according to data from the "Departamento de Hacienda," the Puerto Rican Treasury Department, out of a population of almost 4 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The comment was probably an exaggeration, but was not that farfetched. The truth is that, by the year 2000, a little more than 14,000 Puerto Ricans claimed to earn more than $100,000 according to official numbers released by the Puerto Rican Treasury Department. By 2009, the last official number available, that number had risen to 25,257 individuals/filers. This is an important increase in "wealthy" taxpayers and could be showing advances made in tax compliance during the last decade. However, just by looking at Puerto Rico's property prices (even after the severe housing downturn), the number of cars sold per year and the price of those cars (which is approximately 10 percent higher for "popular" cars and 30 percent to 40 percent higher for "luxury" cars than in the U.S. mainland), plus the number of luxury cars and yachts on the island's piers, it is very difficult to believe that even these higher figures of individuals who earn more than $100,000 are correct. 2 Thus, while advances have been made, the road to make the Puerto Rican tax system inclusive and reduce the size of the underground economy has not ended. Facing serious issues on its fiscal accounts and potentially more credit risk downgrades by the major rating agencies, the government of Puerto Rico embarked on a tax reform in 2010 that is still struggling to give the results it pursued. Some of the proposals included a reduction in tax rates, a change in tax scales, a "temporary" tax on multinational corporations, a reduction in tax credits and incentives and added measures to catch tax evaders. According to the government, the tax reform should "save" $1.2 billion from taxpayers' pockets during the period of 2010-2016. However, little of those objectives have been met as reflected by labor and consumer market indicators. In an effort to increase tax collections and refinance some "under the line" debt, the government of Puerto Rico implemented, in 2006, a consumption tax called IVU (Impuesto a la Venta y Uso, or Sales and Use Tax). The current tax rate for this consumption tax is 7 percent, 5.5 percent collected by the island government and 1.5 percent by the island municipalities. This tax has partially substituted an import tax called "arbitrios," on which the government relied heavily. The government has not eliminated "arbitrios" completely, but now does not rely on the tax as much as it did in the past. The new IVU consumption tax started in November 2006 and part of the collection is a dedicated sales tax to pay for the "non-constitutional" debt incurred by the Puerto Rican government, or debt that was above and beyond what the island's constitution allowed.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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-Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm WorkIt should be no surprise that on America’s farms, many women are treated as less than human, since not even the government sees them as worthy of respect under the law. READ MOREBy Michelle Chen / AlterNet
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-Is Job Security Real Security? Gainful Unemployment May Be A Workable AlternativeA hands-on approach for creating a steady household income -- without having to answer to a boss READ MOREBy Shannon Hayes / YES! Magazine
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2012/5/23 Camilo Perez Bustillo <cperezbustillo at gmail.com>
POR FAVOR VER TEXTO PEGADO ABAJO Y ANEXADO INTEGRANDO EN UN SÓLO DOCUMENTO DE 4 PÁGINAS UN RESUMEN DE LOS ELEMENTOS CLAVES DE LOS OTROS DOCUMENTOS PREVIOS SOMETIDOS EN NOMBRE DEL EJE SOBRE MIGRACION, REFUGIO, Y DESPLAZAMIENTO FORZADO DEL CAPITULO MEXICO DEL TPP, PARA PRESENTACIÓN EN LA PRIMERA AUDIENCIA GENERAL INTRODUCTORIA EN CIUDAD JUÁREZ, 27-29 mayo 2012

Libre comercio, violencia, migración y desplazamiento forzado en México.TPP Caso México, Eje Migración El Eje de Migración del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos, capítulo México, esta ocasión tiene como objetivo; por un lado, hacer visible que en el país los tratados de libre comercio han permitido la implantación y modificación de normas y leyes que desarticulan los derechos internacionales de los pueblos, llevando consigo la precarización de las condiciones de vida de la población, a través de distintas políticas públicas que ha impulsado el Estado mexicano en los últimos 20 años, en una relación de subordinación a las necesidades de acumulación de Estados Unidos, que ha traído como consecuencia el incremento del fenómeno migratorio; por otro, esbozar los principales flujos migratorios que suceden en México y denotar que ellos se desarrollan en condiciones de profunda desventaja, vulnerabilidad y violencia para los migrantes, mismas que son permitidas e impulsadas por el propio gobierno de México: 1) a través del desarrollo de una política antiinmigrante que se suma a la estadounidense, y; 2) a través de la nula respuesta a las problemáticas que viven los trabajadores mexicanos que están fuera del país. Así, hacemos referencia a la política económica, a la industrial, a la regional y urbana, a la social, a la agropecuaria, a la educativa y a la ambiental como políticas que mediante el despojo, la superexplotación de los trabajadores, la urbanización salvaje, la concentración polarizada de la industria, la tecnificación y privatización de la educación, la devastación de recursos naturales, la desarticulación de la producción interna tanto industrial como agropecuaria, etc., dejan a la población mexicana en profundas condiciones de pobreza frente a las cuales la alternativa resulta ser la migración, esencialmente de trabajadores, que se expresa a través de la configuración de distintos flujos migratorios tanto nacionales como internacionales, éstos últimos fundamentalmente a Estados Unidos y Canadá. 1)      Migración México-Estados UnidosEl caso de los migrantes mexicanos resalta como el flujo poblacional (documentado e indocumentado) más grande que llega a Estados Unidos: con aproximadamente 35 millones de personas de origen mexicano para 2007, de los cuáles 11.5 millones son migrantes (nacidos en México), donde el común denominador entre esa población es el grado de vulnerabilidad en que se encuentran, pues realizan los trabajos más precarios, cuentan con los salarios más bajos y tienen nulas prestaciones laborales y sociales. 2)      La transmigración centroamericana en MéxicoLa agudización de la crisis política y económica de Centroamérica ha impulsado un incremento en el número de transmigrantes que atraviesan el territorio nacional; la respuesta del gobierno mexicano, más allá de solidarizarse con los pueblos vecinos, ha sido ampliar los requisitos legales para ingresar al país, dejando a los transmigrantes en la ilegalidad que se ha convertido en condición promotora de abusos de autoridad y violación de sus derechos humanos a través de asaltos, secuestros, asesinatos, amenazas, violaciones, etc.; en este aspecto queremos destacar el caso de los 72 cuerpos que fueron secuestrados, asesinados y encontrados en el Rancho San Fernando, Tamaulipas, en agosto de 2010, y las continuas amenazas y agresiones que han llevado al padre Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, defensor de los derechos de los migrantes y promotor de ayuda humanitaria hacia ellos, a permanecer fuera del país para salvaguardar su integridad física.3)      El caso de los jornaleros mexicanos temporales en CanadáAunque los trabajadores migrantes mexicanos viajan a Canadá bajo varios programas administrados por los gobiernos federales de ambas naciones, los jornaleros mexicanos se reproducen en la precariedad, en tanto que: no está estipulado el salario mínimo ni las horas máximas de trabajo por semana, no gozan de días feriados, no reciben el pago de por horas extras ni días feriados trabajados, muchos trabajadores perciben ingresos  mucho menores al salario mínimo porque en sus lugares de trabajo se paga por pieza/por peso, en tiempos de cosecha se trabajen hasta 16 horas al día, 7 días a la semana, se enfrentan a condiciones laborales peligrosas y que, además, violan los estándares de seguridad laboral y, ante dichas condiciones a las que se enfrentan nuestros connacionales, el Estado mexicano permanece incólume sin actuar al respecto.4)      La emigración masiva de campesinos y comunidades indígenas, como jornaleros agrícolas y como fuerza de trabajo dirigida hacia las ciudades.Para el año 2002 se calculaba que cada día abandonaron su tierra un promedio de 600 campesinos desde que se firmó el TLCAN, algunos se van a los Estados Unidos, otros se emplean en las maquiladoras del país por 400 pesos a la semana y otros,  se emplean como jornaleros agrícolas para los empresarios agrícolas del país o migran hacia ciudades intermedias nacionales. Los jornaleros agrícolas conforman un mercado de trabajo diverso y segmentado, la mayoría de las y los jornaleros agrícolas, es decir, 60.9%, trabaja seis días a la semana y el 13.9% que representa uno de cada siete, trabaja todos los días, en condiciones de desgaste físico y exposición a riesgos. Hay que agregar que la precarización del salario de los jornaleros implica el involucramiento de toda la familia, resaltando la incorporación de los niños al trabajo agrícola y a la realización del trabajo doméstico mientras sus madres se encuentran en los campos de cultivo.5)      Los llamados desplazamientos forzadosUn fenómeno creciente en México es el desplazamiento forzado interno y externo (transfronterizo) -abarcando un universo calculado en entre 1.5 y 2 millones de habitantes, producido por una serie de circunstancias convergentes que incluyen el impacto de megaproyectos de minería e hidroeléctricos y del cambio climático (actual sequía), los efectos de la militarización y violencia desatadas por la llamada guerra “anti drogas”. Aquí, destacamos la masacre de Acteal como resultado de la violación de los derechos de los pueblos a no migrar y autodeterminarse, que refleja una metodología de terror estatal y paramilitar convergente con los casos de San Fernando, que incluye el recurso al desplazamiento forzado y a la migración forzada como mecanismos inherentes a las políticas contra-insurgentes, de “guerra de baja intensidad”, y/o “anti-drogas”, y a los modelos de despojo territorial y de recursos característicos del “libre comercio”. Como respuesta a la problemática planteada nos permitimos solicitar al Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos:1.      Reconocimiento del derecho a la libre movilidad humana y sus 3 dimensiones: a) derecho a migrar, b) a no migrar, y c) a no ser desplazado/a, como punto de partida para abordar los casos y temas emblemáticos planteados por el eje, centrados en violaciones de la dignidad y los derechos de migrantes, refugiado/as y desplazado/as (“pueblos en movimiento”) vinculados a patrones recurrentes de violencia estatal, estructural y/o sistémica.2.      Reconocer como corolarios integrales al derecho a la libre movilidad humana los derechos a la asistencia humanitaria de las y los migrantes en tránsito, y al asilo, refugio, santuario, hospitalidad y solidaridad, y al debido respeto y protección estatal de sus defensore/as.3.      Reconocimiento que la pobreza, desigualdad, discriminación, y otras condiciones materiales estructurales y sistémicas que hacen imposible una vida digna en las comunidades, pueblos, y familias de origen de las y los migrantes internos e internacionales, atribuibles a la imposición del modelo neoliberal y del “libre comercio”.4.      Debe ser abordado el proceso de migración mexicana interna y hacia Estados Unidos, y desde los países pertinentes de origen hacia México (por ejemplo desde Centroamérica y la región andina y el Brasil), por el TPP como procesos de migración forzada y/o de desplazamiento forzado, caracterizados por la complicidad estructural transnacional entre los estados y sectores fácticos de poder (empresarial, militar, policial, mediático, etc.) entre los países de origen, tránsito y destino implicados.5.      Reconocimiento por el TPP de los lemas “NINGÚN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL” y “TODOS LOS DERECHOS PARA TODAS Y TODOS, SIN FRONTERAS” como puntos de partida y aportes al marco de referencia para sus deliberaciones.6.      Reconocimiento que el derecho a la libre movilidad humana ha sido ejercido ancestralmente por los pueblos indígenas y originarios previo a la existencia de todos los estados y fronteras actuales en el continente americano.7.      Impugnación de la militarización de las fronteras (terrestres, marítimas y aéreas) y de la subordinación de las políticas migratorias.8.      Pedimos que se caractericen la Masacre de San Fernando y las fosas comunes como crímenes de lesa humanidad, crímenes de estado, y crímenes de guerra, y además como casos de genocidio que reflejan una política más generalizada de terror estatal mexicano contra las y los migrantes en tránsito.

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Canadian Pacific Rail On Strike Resource companies and manufacturers in Canada faced disruptions after a strike shut down the
Canadian Pacific Railway early Wednesday morning. 
The strike by about 4,800 locomotive engineers, yard workers,
conductors and rail traffic controllers came just days after Fred
Green stepped down as the railroad’s chief executive and William A.
Ackman, the activist American investor, won a proxy battle for control
of the company. Canadian Pacific has about 15,000 miles of track in
North America and controls an effective duopoly over rail traffic in
Canada with the Canadian National Railway. The mining, forestry,
agriculture and energy companies which form much of the Canadian
economy depend heavily on rail shipments. And key manufacturing
industries, particularly automakers, also rely on trains.
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San Diego Education Assn and All Schoolworkers, in the Crosshairs:* 
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3281&section=Article

After Losing 2/3s of their Members, bargaining the worst contract in
teacher history, suspending the only militant DFT leaders, the fake
union promises a fight, well, a lawsuit they will lose disguised as a
fight. The Detroit Federation of Teachers, in response to the
disrespect and lack of professionalism toward our members by the
School District of the City of Detroit, is preparing to file perhaps
the most monumental lawsuit against DPS in recent memory. The cavalier
attitude the district projects to our members' lives and livelihood
demonstrates the lack of value and respect for our work. 
Our members, who have endured the district's fiscal irresponsibility
and taken concession laden contracts for seven years, who've had to
endure physical assaults, car thefts and break-ins, lack of adequate
materials and resources, and oversized classes, continue to provide
quality instruction to the children in their care despite being
treated as valuable as a disposable diaper. 
While our members have endured cuts, some leaders have received pay
increases and exorbitant bonuses without scrutiny or oversight. We
have not publicly criticized the district, choosing instead to attempt
to work with it to expedite the fiscal and academic recovery of the
district. THAT PRACTICE ENDS NOW!  http://mi.aft.org/dft231/
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