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<div><ol><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14684?akid=8096.16102.eV6kDm&t=4" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Report: Unemployment Level Dropped Significantly, But Serious Economic Problems Loom</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14659?akid=8096.16102.eV6kDm&t=8" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Bank Of America Nearly Forecloses On Home Because Owner Was Short 80 Cents On Mortgage Payment</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; ">Help Us Hold Prime Healthcare Accountable!ž</span></b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; ">January 12 2012 12PM: Working for Nothing: The Latest Fast Growth Sector? UCLAž</span></b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; ">Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award Over Teach for America Controversy</span></b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; ">Unemployment Falls to 8.5 Percent, but Job Growth Remains Weak</span></b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; ">Obama Makes Recess Appointments to NLRB. Is It Enough for AFL-CIO Endorsement?</span> </b></font></li><li><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; "><font size="3"><b>On the News with Thom Hartmann: Public Sector Layoffs Nibbling Away at Employment Recovery, and More</b></font></span></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Walmart Blacklisted by Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices</span> </b></font></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">NFL Players Urges Indiana to Sack 'Right to Work' Billž</font></h2> </li></ol><div><br></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14684?akid=8096.16102.eV6kDm&t=4" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Report: Unemployment Level Dropped Significantly, But Serious Economic Problems Loom</a></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); ">By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet</div></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); "><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14659?akid=8096.16102.eV6kDm&t=8" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Bank Of America Nearly Forecloses On Home Because Owner Was Short 80 Cents On Mortgage Payment</a></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); ">By Pat Garofalo | Think Progress</div></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); "><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="626" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-width: 10px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><center><img border="0" align="center" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/email-images/seiu-uhw-email-header-p.jpg" title="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West" alt="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West"></center></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="626" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left" valign="top" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Dear SEIU-UHW Member,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">We know that Prime Healthcare, a system of 14 hospitals in California, picks on employees—and now we know they pick on patients too. The <em>LA Times</em> just revealed that Prime hospital directors didn’t like what a patient said about their hospital so they brought her private medical records to the local newspaper.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Yes, you read that correctly. If <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><em>you</em></strong> violated HIPAA what would happen? No one messes with HIPAA . . . except Prime Healthcare.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1d564/1744dce/5fa04aa8/389f965/4156441496/VEsH/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Read the <em>LA Times</em> column here</a>. </strong></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">There’s something quick you can do to blow the whistle on Prime: <strong style="font-weight: bold; ">please contact Linda Whitney, executive director of the Medical Board of California, at (916) 263-2389 or <a href="mailto:lwhitney@mbc.ca.gov" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">lwhitney@mbc.ca.gov</a>. Tell her to investigate the HIPAA violations and potential fraud committed by Prime Healthcare.</strong></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">We want to improve the quality of healthcare in California, right? We’re going to raise a flag when a healthcare corporation violates the law, invades people’s privacy and mistreats workers, right? Join me by making a call or sending an email today.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">In unity,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><img align="left" alt="" height="125" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/Martha%20Alvarez_100w.jpg" width="100"></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Martha Alvarez</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Centinela Hospital,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Inglewood, California</p> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br style="line-height: 13px; "> <br style="line-height: 13px; "><div style="line-height: 13px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-image: initial; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; text-align: center; ">SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West</div> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">To: LA-LABOR@NEWLISTS.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="ecxWordSection1" style="line-height: 17px; page: WordSection1; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Working for Nothing: The Latest Fast Growth Sector?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Presented by:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Andrew Ross</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">New York University</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Thursday, January 12, 2012</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">12:30 - 2:00 pm</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Bunche Hall 11377 (11th Floor)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Corporate profits have never been higher, at a time when the real unemployment</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">has soared. Have bosses learned how to get by without workers? Not really,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">but the evidence suggests a growing reliance on new kinds of free labor to boost</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">the balance sheet of companies that are canny enough to harvest it. <b style="font-weight: bold; ">Free, or token-wage,</b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">labor is increasingly available through a variety of channels: crowdsourcing, data-mining,</b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">prosumerism, or other sophisticated digital techniques for extracting rents</b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">from user/participants; expanded prison labor programs; the explosion of unpaid</b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">near-obligatory internships in every white-collar sector; and the whole gamut</b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">of contestant volunteering</b> that has transformed so much of our commerce in culture</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">into an amateur talent show, with jackpot stakes for a few winners and hard-luck</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">schwag for everyone else.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">About the Speaker:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">to the Nation, the Village Voice, and Artforum, he is the author of many books,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">including Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, Fast</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Boat to China--Lessons from Shanghai, Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">for Fair Labor, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, and The Celebration</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">He has also edited several collections, including No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">and the Rights of Garment Workers, and The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">and the Future of the Academic Workplace. His most recent book is Bird On Fire:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">-----------------------</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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