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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Tijuana 3-day workers school set to beginþ</FONT></H2></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13410?akid=7912.16102.VnHxZq&t=7" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Family's Eviction Called Off After Occupy Rochester, Other Protesters Plan to "Occupy" Their Home</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>UI Clock Ticks for 6 Million Joblessþ</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H3 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/opinion/fair-pay-for-hard-work.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211" target=_blank><FONT size=3>Fair Pay for Hard Work</FONT></A></H3></LI></OL>
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<DIV class="SandboxScopeClass ExternalClass PlainTextMessageBody" id=mpf0_MsgContainer><PRE><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><STRONG>Comment on "Strikes in China," Nov. 25<BR>by Carl Proper<BR></STRONG></FONT>Submitted to Portside Labor by the author<BR>November 28, 2011<BR> <BR>China Labor Watch's call for New Balance, Apple and<BR>other U.S. manufacturers to assume responsibility for<BR>oppressive conditions in their Chinese factories is<BR>historically justified by the long experience of the<BR>International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in<BR>the United States. The ILGWU succeeded in partially<BR>controlling sweatshop conditions in the 20th century<BR>U.S. garment industry only because we were able to hold<BR>the business controlling the work - the manufacturer --<BR>responsible. Even conservative Republicans Senators<BR>Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater acknowledged, in their<BR>days, that sweatshops conditions in garment contractors<BR>could only be successfully combatted by holding the<BR>source of the work responsible.<BR> <BR>Taft acknowledged, in 1949, that the garment "jobber"<BR>(a manufacturer who contracts out its production) "is<BR>in economic reality the virtual employer of the workers<BR>in the contractors' shops.(H)e must be responsible for<BR>their wages and labor standards, and indeed the<BR>contractor is nothing more than the jobber's outside<BR>agent to obtain his required production."(1) Goldwater<BR>supported inclusion of a similar provision in the 1959<BR>Landrum-Griffin Act.<BR> <BR>Thus empowered, the ILGWU was able to demand that union<BR>jobbers provide work only to union contractors, and<BR>vice versa. The relatively wealthy jobber was then<BR>required, under union contracts, to pay into funds to<BR>provide health insurance, a pension and other benefits<BR>for all of its contractors' employees - as well as<BR>guaranteeing the workers' wages if the contractor<BR>closed or was unable to pay. No other system, over the<BR>course of the 20th century, effectively diminished<BR>sweatshop competition.<BR> <BR>Unfortunately, as a matter of law, this stipulation of<BR>responsibility was applied in this country only to the<BR>garment industry, and only to the unionized sector.<BR>That said, it remains true that the business(es)<BR>controlling / owning the work largely control the price<BR>and conditions in their contractor facilities, no less<BR>in today's global setting than in the more national<BR>economy of twenty or one hundred years ago. On this<BR>basis, the principle of "jobber" (manufacturer)<BR>responsibility for the working conditions of ALL its<BR>employees, direct or indirect, must stand. Without<BR>this principle, an economy based on contracting out is<BR>a system of organized irresponsibility, leading to the<BR>unjust and undemocratic conditions we all experience<BR>today.<BR> <BR>The words of early 20th century U.S. labor historian<BR>John Commons, would appear to describe accurately the<BR>situation of contract employees working in China or<BR>other countries:<BR> <BR>"When work comes to the contractor from the<BR>manufacturer and is offered to his employees<BR>for a smaller price than has been previously<BR>paid, the help will remonstrate and ask to be<BR>paid the full price. Then the contractor tells<BR>them, "I have nothing to do with the price.<BR>The price is made for me by the manufacturer."<BR>That is, he cuts himself completely loose from<BR>any responsibility to his employees as to how<BR>much they should get for their labor . . . .<BR>The help do not know the manufacturer . . . .<BR>However much the price for labor goes down<BR>there is no one responsible."<BR> <BR>The remedy prescribed by the Commission reporting in<BR>1926 to New York Governor (later Presidential<BR>candidate) Al Smith is equally valid:<BR> <BR>"By whatever name he may call himself, the<BR>jobber controls working conditions; he controls<BR>employment, and that element of control imposes<BR>upon him the responsibility that he shall so<BR>conduct his business that proper working<BR>standards may be upheld instead of undermined,<BR>and that employment may be stabilized instead<BR>of demoralized."(2)<BR> <BR>Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, New Balance, Hewlett Packard<BR>and their peers are practically and morally responsible<BR>for the conditions imposed on the global contractor<BR>employees whose labor, in turn, is responsible for<BR>corporate executives' fabulous profits and salaries.<BR>China Watch speaks for the 99% in the USA and the world<BR>who - unless we make a change -- may never meet their<BR>true employers.<BR> <BR>Endnotes:<BR> <BR>(1) Colloquy between Senator Taft and Senator Ives, 95<BR>Cong. Rec. 8876 (June 30, 1949)<BR>(2) Governor's Advisory Commission in the Cloak, Suit<BR>and Skirt Industry of New York City, Final<BR>Recommendations, 1926.<BR> <BR>Carl Proper<BR>Communications Director<BR>New England Joint Board<BR>UNITE HERE<BR>(formerly - ILGWU)<BR> <BR>____________________________________________<BR> <BR>PortsideLabor aims to provide material of interest to<BR>people on the left that will help them to interpret the<BR>world and to change it.<BR> <BR>Submit via email: labor@portside.org<BR> <BR>Submit via the Web: <A href="http://portside.org/submittous3" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://portside.org/submittous3</FONT></A><BR> <BR>Frequently asked questions: <A href="http://portside.org/faq" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://portside.org/faq</FONT></A><BR> <BR>Sub/Unsub: <A href="http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe</FONT></A><BR> <BR>PS Labor Archives: <A href="http://portside.org/archive" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://portside.org/archive</FONT></A><BR> <BR>Contribute to Portside: <A href="https://portside.org/donate" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>https://portside.org/donate</FONT></A><BR></PRE></DIV>
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<STRONG>Tijuana 3-day workers’ school set to begin</STRONG><BR><BR>Nov. 28 -- Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico<BR><BR>Young workers from the front lines of the Occupy movement in the U.S., immigrant rights activists, veterans from the major labor struggles in Mexico and more are gathering at the 3-day Workers’ School opening in Tijuana Nov. 29. In a very modest way, it is continuing the discussions held at the Cuban Workers Central Union’s Lazaro Pena school.<BR><BR>Topics will focus on the current political situation, economic and social developments in Mexico and the U.S., the effects on the workplace and the response of the labor movement and the workers to these developments. <BR><BR>The characteristics and results achieved through the new processes of integration through the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas -- ALBA -- will be explored. The development of ESNA -- Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America -- which completed its fourth meeting in Managua, Nicaragua last summer with an action plan for 2010 will be discussed. <BR><BR>A theme very much of interest is the Cuban revolution and the current process updating the Cuban economic model. The progress of this plan and the role of the union movement in is also part of the course. <BR><BR>The classes will be followed by a concluding event on Friday, Dec. 2 that will open a weekend conference. The evening of Saturday, Dec. 3 is dedicated to expanding the movement to Free the Cuban Five. The new Saul Landau film, “Will the real terrorist please stand up?” will be screened.<BR><BR>For more information or to join the discussion or the conference, call 313 675 4026, email: laborexchange@aol.com or laborexchange@gmail.com <BR>More information is available at LaborExchange.blogspot.com<BR>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR>Urgent: If Congress fails to act, 2 million people who can’t find work and are relying on emergency unemployment benefits will lose their lifeline in January. And if action isn’t taken at all, the total will rise to at least <B>6 million</B> over the course of 2012.<SUP>1</SUP><BR><BR>But shockingly, it looks like Speaker John Boehner—who has nearly absolute control over what comes up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives—may be willing to ignore this dire crisis and <B>cut 6 million of America’s workers off at the knees</B><B>.</B> While he and his fellow obstructionists pursue a polarizing anti-worker agenda, time may run out for America’s jobless.<BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=1lKvV6EUf8NsreWSzVMEtcg1L9dhVGmy" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Sign our emergency petition: Tell Congress it’s time to put partisanship aside and take urgent action to renew emergency unemployment now</FONT></A>.</B><BR><BR>Congress has <B>never </B>cut back on federally funded unemployment insurance when unemployment was anywhere near this high for this long. <BR><BR>But this time, it looks like it really might happen. Speaker Boehner is using the limited time left in this year’s legislative calendar not to extend unemployment, but to hold votes on legislation designed to benefit corporate CEOs and the richest 1% of Americans. <BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=9FzzRDYxlV405FFYse2Zycg1L9dhVGmy" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Hurry: Sign our petition by 9 a.m. Wednesday and we’ll be sure your name is included in our delivery to Speaker Boehner and key members of Congress Wednesday afternoon</FONT></A>.</B><BR><BR>The legislative package Speaker Boehner’s moving this week—his misleadingly named “Jobs Agenda”—would do nothing to create jobs if it ever became law. Instead, it would <B>weaken </B>unions and workers’ collective bargaining rights, <B>gut </B>workplace safety and health rules, <B>end</B> environmental and consumer protections and <B>stop </B>health care regulations and financial safeguards designed to prevent another Great Depression.<BR><BR><B>Ignoring America’s massive crisis of joblessness while pushing attacks on workers is the same kind of overreach that Ohio voters rejected earlier this month. </B>Working families rightfully demand bold action to extend unemployment benefits, address our immediate unemployment crisis and create jobs—now.<BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=W%2BB26s2bj3JPARGr3pN2Usg1L9dhVGmy" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Sign now: Urge Congress to stand with unemployed workers and the 99%—not corporate CEOs and the 1%</FONT></A>.</B><BR><BR><B>Time’s running out. Speaker Boehner and other obstructionists in Congress need to address this crisis now.</B> He already failed millions of job-hunters by refusing to take up the American Jobs Act or any serious proposal to create jobs. Let’s make sure America’s long-term job-hunters aren’t left without both jobs and a lifeline in 2012.<BR><BR>Thanks for all the work you do.<BR><BR>In Solidarity,<BR><BR>Manny Herrmann<BR>Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO<BR><BR>(1) <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=fniqEC9QYiLYdpYz8OmnKMg1L9dhVGmy" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.nelp.org/page/-/UI/2011/NELP_UI_Extension_Report_2011.pdf?nocdn=1</FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN><BR></TD></TR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Washington State Set to Slash Education and Health Care for the Poor<BR></FONT></STRONG>Jesse Hagopian, Truthout: "Beyond breaking the state Constitution and Judge Erlick's recent ruling, these budget cuts are literally a matter of life and death. Should the cuts be ratified, it would result in the elimination of the state's basic health plan, ending a program that subsidizes health care for some 35,000 people living in poverty. Denying health care to the state's most vulnerable populations will undoubtedly lead to increased morbidity." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YjdKlyzQ1Q1yJipJqSDAmMnwoBbT3to/" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=mVviDTFYZF/cW55Xax8kdtafuRCltfBy" target=_blank><IMG title=Ironworkers alt=Ironworkers src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/children_beam.jpg" border=0></A><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=8Rz3BaAchS/pZdmbwbOh6tafuRCltfBy" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Seattle Ironworkers have been lifting the spirits of some very sick children while lifting the I-beams for a new wing at Seattle Children’s Hospital</FONT></A>.</SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If Congress does not act before it adjourns for the year, unemployment insurance (UI) will expire and 6 million jobless workers will lose their UI lifeline. Laid-off telecommunications worker Terry Maile is one of hundreds of jobless workers who are traveling to Washington, D.C., in coming weeks to demand a fair shake for the unemployed.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>Occupy San Francisco March for Immigrant Rights<BR></FONT></STRONG>Photos by David Bacon<BR></DIV>
<DIV>SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 26NOVEMBER11 - Participants in Occupy San Francisco live in tents in an encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. The camp protests the exploitation of 99% of the population by the wealthiest 1%, as well as police repression and removal of occupy encampments around the country, including the original New York City demonstration, Occupy Wall Street. Camp residents, together with supporters in immigrant rights organizations and unions, marched up Market Street. Marchers carried signs and banners declaring that immigrants are part of the 99%. Prior to the march, they hold a General Assembly to discuss possible actions if the city moves to evict the encampment from Justin Herman Plaza. During the meeting, people wave their fingers in the air to express agreement with the speaker. Other camp residents look through the books in the Occupy Library, or sit reading by their tents. </DIV>
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<DIV>For more articles and images, see <FONT color=#000000> <A href="http://dbacon.igc.org">http://dbacon.igc.org</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>See also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)</DIV>
<DIV>Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><A href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002">http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US</DIV>
<DIV>Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><A href="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575">http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)</DIV>
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