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<P class=ecxheadline3 style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><A class=ecxalt_substory href="http://act.alternet.org/go/8398?akid=7165.16102.dxZtvx&t=21" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=2><STRONG>CEO of Walmart Makes in One Hour What the Average Employee Makes In a Year: How Skyrocketing Inequality Is Hurting America</STRONG></FONT></A></P></LI>
<LI><STRONG>NEA's Electoral Circus-Which Way the Resistance?</STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>Kelber: US Unions Ban Talk of Obamagogue's Imperial Wars</STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>Target Workers Reject Corrupt UFCW</STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>You Don't Need To Pay Union Dues in order to Surrender (NYC):* </STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>NJ Dem Legislators Smash Public Workers: Unions Say, "We will<BR>definitely, definitely, go vote."* </STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>After Quicky Strike, CAW Buys another 2 Tier Plan (the hell with the<BR>young)</STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>Do For-Profit Prison Companies Increase the Prison Population and Taxpayer Costs?</STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG>Slave Labor by Another Name in Georgia After Crackdown on Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers<BR></STRONG><BR></LI></OL>
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<P class=ecxheadline3 style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><A class=ecxalt_substory href="http://act.alternet.org/go/8398?akid=7165.16102.dxZtvx&t=21" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>CEO of Walmart Makes in One Hour What the Average Employee Makes In a Year: How Skyrocketing Inequality Is Hurting America</FONT></A><BR>
<P style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">By Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet</P>
<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A new report shows exactly who the top 0.1 percent of Americans with all the wealth are. The question is, what can we do about it? <A class=ecxreadmore style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: 0.1em" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/8398?akid=7165.16102.dxZtvx&t=22" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>READ MORE »</FONT></A></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>
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*Solidarity Forever* <BR> <BR>*NEA's Electoral Circus-Which Way the Resistance?* NEA spent more<BR>than $50 million on the 2008 Obama campaign. Untold thousands of NEA<BR>volunteers staffed the Obama campaign. Of all the organizations on the<BR>floor of the Democratic Convention, NEA topped them in numbers.<BR>Together with the American Federation of Teachers, school workers’<BR>money and time was pivotal in the demagogue’s victory. <BR>In a June 11th interview with Politico, NEA executive director John<BR>Wilson said the NEA would spend $60 million on the Obama campaign. He<BR>added. ““We’ve got a lot of selling to do. Our members are very<BR>unhappy. We’ve got to explain to them the stakes. We cannot wait<BR>until a few months before the election.”<BR><A href="http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2345§ion=Article" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2345§ion=Article</FONT></A><BR><BR>
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*Kelber: US Unions Ban Talk of Obamagogue's Imperial Wars:* AFL-CIO<BR>leaders have decided that the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are<BR>not an issue that the labor movement should be concerned with. <BR>To implement that unofficial decision, they have banned any news and<BR>information about the two wars from appearing on the AFL-CIO web site,<BR>including all printed matter and public statements under their direct<BR>control. <A href="http://www.laboreducator.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.laboreducator.org/</FONT></A><BR>
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Target Workers Reject Corrupt UFCW:* The nation’s main union for<BR>retail workers lost a unionization vote on Friday at a Target store in<BR>Valley Stream, N.Y., in what was an effort to make it the first of<BR>Target’s 1,750 stores in the United States to be unionized.<BR><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/business/18target.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/business/18target.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y</FONT></A><BR>
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You Don't Need To Pay Union Dues in order to Surrender (NYC):* Under<BR>the agreement, state workers represented by the union, the Civil<BR>Services Employees Association, would get no pay raise this year or in<BR>the next two years. They would also accept a five-day unpaid furlough<BR>this year and a four-day unpaid furlough next year. And thousands of<BR>state workers would begin to pay a larger share of their health<BR>insurance premiums, reducing costs to the state. <BR>State workers would receive 2 percent wage increases in the fourth and<BR>fifth years of the five-year contract agreement, and lump-sum bonuses<BR>in the third and fourth years that would not increase their base pay.<BR><A href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/cuomo-reaches-deal-with-union-to-avert-layoffs/?emc=eta1" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/cuomo-reaches-deal-with-union-to-avert-layoffs/?emc=eta1</FONT></A><BR><BR>
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NJ Dem Legislators Smash Public Workers: Unions Say, "We will<BR>definitely, definitely, go vote."* The Assembly passed the bill 46 to<BR>32, as Republicans and a few Democrats defied raucous protests by<BR>thousands of people whose chants, vowing electoral revenge, shook the<BR>State House. Leaders in the State Senate said their chamber, which had<BR>already passed a slightly different version of the bill, would approve<BR>the Assembly version on Monday. Mr. Christie, a Republican, was<BR>expected to sign the measure into law quickly. <BR>In a statement released after the vote, Mr. Christie said, “We are<BR>putting the people first and daring to touch the third rail of<BR>politics in order to bring reform to an unsustainable system.” <BR>The legislation will sharply increase what state and local workers<BR>must contribute for their health insurance and pensions, suspend<BR>cost-of-living increases to retirees’ pension checks, raise<BR>retirement ages and curb the unions’ contract bargaining rights.<BR>*..*While states around the country have moved to pare labor costs and<BR>limit the power of unions, the move is all the more striking here, in<BR>a Democratic-leaning state where Democrats control both houses of the<BR>Legislature and union membership is among the highest in the country.<BR><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/nj-legislature-moves-to-cut-benefits-for-public-workers.html?_r=1&hp" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/nj-legislature-moves-to-cut-benefits-for-public-workers.html?_r=1&hp</FONT></A><BR>
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After Quicky Strike, CAW Buys another 2 Tier Plan (the hell with the<BR>young)* The union representing 3,800 striking workers at Air Canada<BR>(AC.B.T) said Thursday it had reached a tentative four-year deal with<BR>the air carrier, Canada's biggest, that provides for wage increases<BR>and "slight" changes to existing employees' pension plan.<BR><A href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110616-712053.html" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110616-712053.html</FONT></A><BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Martori Farms: Abusive Conditions at Key Wal-Mart Supplier<BR></FONT></STRONG>Victoria Law, Truthout: "The Arizona Department of Corrections has sent its prisoners to work for private agricultural businesses for almost 20 years. The farm pays its imprisoned laborers two dollars per hour, not including the travel time to and from the farm. Women on the Perryville Unit are assigned to Martori Farms, an Arizona farm corporation that supplies fresh fruits and vegetables to vendors across the United States (Martori is the exclusive supplier to Wal-Mart's 2,470 Supercenter and Neighborhood Market stores)." <BR><BR>
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR><STRONG>Do For-Profit Prison Companies Increase the Prison Population and Taxpayer Costs?<BR></STRONG><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jSVrjIW%2BVuB4OKSR7MTM%2BsStnAhhgPCq" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</FONT></A><BR>
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<STRONG>Slave Labor by Another Name in Georgia After Crackdown on Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers<BR></STRONG><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AS8rOt/JMCmV/61bekVGsMANyXXZRNd5" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article at The Washington Post</FONT></A><BR>
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