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<div><ol><li><pre><font size="3" face="Tahoma"><b>King of UAW to German Autobosses: Let Me Help you Screw theWorkers*--- rs have rebuffed the union repeatedly. </b></font></pre></li><li><a href="http://www.uniquescoop.com/2012/01/100-year-old-political-cartoon-still-as.html" target="_blank"><font size="3"><b>100 year old political cartoon- still as accurate as ever</b></font></a></li><li><font size="3"><b>ICE Agents’ Union Delays Training on New Policy on Deportation </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b>Labor for Palestine: Support the Longview Caravan and stop union-busting!</b></font></li><li><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14696?akid=8098.16102.UDEM0J&t=5" target="_blank"><font size="3"><b>Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle</b></font></a></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14698?akid=8098.16102.UDEM0J&t=12" target="_blank">"Daddy, What's a Union?" 10 Words Our Kids May Not Recognize</a> </b></font></li><li><h3><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/business/economy/us-adds-200000-jobs-unemployment-rate-at-8-5.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><font size="3">U.S. Economy Gains Steam as 200,000 Jobs Are Added</font></a></h3></li><li><h3><font size="3"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/us/indiana-right-to-work-measure-expected-to-pass.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">Indiana Labor Measure Is Expected to Progress</a> </font></h3></li><li><h3><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/business/nlrb-backs-workers-on-joint-arbitration-cases.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><font size="3">Labor Board Backs Workers on Joint Arbitration Cases</font></a></h3></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject"><font size="3">Must See Video | Organizing Victory | Healthcare
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<div class="ecxseparator" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="3"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8HIk9gCUdmU/TwcWr49uMZI/AAAAAAAAka8/UM5XYF0PFlA/s1600/iww_pyramid_poster_lowresproof.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8HIk9gCUdmU/TwcWr49uMZI/AAAAAAAAka8/UM5XYF0PFlA/s640/iww_pyramid_poster_lowresproof.jpg" width="480" border="0"></a></font></div><font size="3"><br>"Pyramid of Capitalist
System", issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashick and Kuharich, Cleveland: The
International Publishing Co., 1911.<br><br><br>The Pyramid of Capitalist System
is a provocative illustration of the hierarchical system of capitalist rule in
America. In this beautifully colored portrait, the artist depicts the multiple
tiers of working class oppression. At the top of the pyramid sits the state,
which serves the interests of the ruling class and functions under capitalism as
the protector of private wealth and property. Below the state stand the
religious leaders, clergymen, and preachers of false consciousness who encourage
obedience to and acceptance of the status quo, entreating the working masses to
accept their ordained fate and seek their just rewards not on earth but in that
glorious hereafter.<br><br>If obedience cannot be encouraged it will surely be
enforced by the members of the next tier. As events in Homestead and Pullman
clearly testified, the police and militia had as their objective not the
protection of "the people," but rather the protection of capital from "the
people." Beneath the military sit the parasite class, the bourgeoisie, who
exploit the toilers of the world and profit by their labor power.<br><br>Beneath
it all, bearing the weight of the entire system, are the workers who produce all
things fundamental to the perpetuation of life and the continuation of this
system. Thus, in addition to illustrating the multi-layered oppression and
exploitation of workers, this image also begs the question, "what would happen
to capitalism if the workers simply withdrew their support?</font>"
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<h1 style="font-size: 2.4em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><u></u>Agents’
Union Delays Training on New Policy on Deportation<u></u></h1><u></u>
<h6 style="font-size: 1em; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">By <a title="More Articles by Julia Preston" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/julia_preston/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank" rel="author">JULIA PRESTON</a></h6><u></u><u></u>
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<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/illegal-immigrants-who-commit-crimes-focus-of-deportation.html?_r=1&hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/illegal-immigrants-who-commit-crimes-focus-of-deportation.html?_r=1&hp</a></p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">WASHINGTON — The federal agency in
charge of deportations is conducting a far-reaching training course to push <a title="More articles about immigration." style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="_blank">immigration</a> enforcement officers and prosecutors nationwide to
focus their efforts on removing immigrants convicted of crimes.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">The training course is the clearest
sign yet that administration officials want to transform the way immigration
officers work, asking them to make nuanced decisions to speed deportations of
high-risk offenders while halting those of illegal immigrants with clean records
and strong ties to the country. The policy is President Obama’s most ambitious
immigration initiative before the November elections, senior administration
officials said.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">But in a new sign of the deep
dissension over immigration, the union representing some 7,000 deportation
officers of the agency, <a title="More articles about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/immigration_and_customs_enforcement_us/index.html?inline=nyt-org" target="_blank">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a>, known as ICE, has so far
not allowed its members to participate in the training. Without the formal
assent of the union, the administration’s strategy could be significantly slowed
for months in labor negotiations.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Chris Crane, the president of the
union, the National ICE Council, has fiercely criticized the strategy, saying it
amounts to orders from ICE officials for agents not to enforce the law. In
Congressional testimony, Mr. Crane accused the administration of tailoring its
enforcement practices to win support from immigrant communities for Mr. Obama’s
re-election.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">“Law enforcement and public safety
have taken a back seat to attempts to satisfy immigrant advocacy groups,” Mr.
Crane told a House Judiciary subcommittee in October.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Mr. Crane has channeled his criticisms
primarily through Republican leaders in Congress, working with Representative
Lamar Smith of Texas, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Calling the
administration’s plan “backdoor amnesty,” Mr. Smith said last week that evidence
Mr. Crane presented to the committee showed that directives from ICE officials
for agents to use discretion in enforcement decisions had “undermined the
agency’s credibility and mission.”</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Department of Homeland Security
officials say the training seminar, although only half a day, is central to
bringing all ICE officers on board for an effort that they say will
significantly raise the numbers of convicted criminals among deportees and is
expected to lead in coming months to unprecedented suspensions of deportations
of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Virtually all ICE commanding officers
and prosecutors have gone through the training course and are working on the new
strategy, Homeland Security Department officials said. But because of the
silence from the ICE Council, a local of the American Federation of Government
Employees, the officials will miss their Jan. 13 goal for completing the
nationwide training blitz, which began in November.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">The National ICE Council faces a
deadline late this month to say whether it will demand negotiations over the
training, the officials said. Mr. Crane did not respond to repeated e-mail
requests over several months for comment.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">On another side, the administration is
facing intense pressure from Latino leaders and immigrant organizations to begin
halting deportations.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">The cornerstone of the policy is a
June 17 memorandum by John Morton, the director of ICE, in which he laid out a
list of no fewer than 31 factors that ICE officers should weigh when deciding
whether to proceed with a deportation. Peter S. Vincent, ICE’s top lawyer, added
additional guidelines on Nov. 17.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">With slide shows and chalk talks on a
dozen hypothetical immigration cases, the training seminar challenges officers
to decide which foreigners should be deported, using prosecutorial discretion to
make more complex decisions than they have in decades. It instructs agents to
focus on the worst offenders, including criminal convicts, gang members and
foreigners who came back after being expelled. Other groups of immigrants —
elderly people, children, military veterans, college students and parents of
young citizens — are low priorities who can be allowed to stay, even if they are
here illegally. A New York Times reporter sat through an abbreviated version of
the seminar.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano said the policy was based on existing statutes and was intended to
make good use of strained resources. With each deportation costing at least
$23,000, she said, immigration agencies have money for 400,000 removals each
year, a goal that the Obama administration has met in each of the past three
years. But an estimated 11 million immigrants live here illegally.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">The training asks ICE agents what they
should do, for example, with a young illegal immigrant turned over to the agency
after being arrested by a state trooper for driving without a license. She has
been living in this country since 1993 and has an infant son, an American
citizen because he was born here. But she lied to ICE officers, failing to tell
them she had a conviction for shoplifting in 1995.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Answer: She is not a threatening
criminal and may still be nursing her American baby. Officers should close her
deportation case.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">How about the migrant who has been
living here since he crossed the Southwest border illegally in 1996? He failed
to appear for a crucial immigration court hearing back then. But he has no
criminal record, and he coaches soccer at the school where his twin daughters,
both citizens, are enrolled.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Answer: This case, too, should be
closed.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Then there is the man from an Asian
Pacific island, a legal resident of the United States since 1984 who even served
two distinguished combat tours in Iraq. But he left the military and is now
finishing a six-year prison sentence for a federal sex-trafficking felony.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Answer: Despite his service, because
of his grave sex offense he loses his resident status and will be sent by ICE to
his birth country.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Cases against illegal immigrants who
win favorable prosecutorial discretion will be closed but not canceled, so ICE
can easily reopen them. Mr. Morton said the immigrants would remain in “legal
limbo,” not gaining any legal immigration status.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">Mr. Crane told Congress that the
Morton directives presented enforcement agents with “a roller coaster of arrest
authority that has changed from month to month, week to week and at times from
day to day.” He said some agents were afraid to make any arrests.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">It is not clear how deeply the union’s
resistance reaches into ICE ranks. ICE officials say many field agents have been
drawn to the professional appeal of the high-profile anticrime operations
against foreign street gangs, drug dealers and sex offenders that the agency is
conducting ever more frequently.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">“Our folks understand that we have
limited resources and we have to focus more than ever on our priorities,” said
Chris Shanahan, the ICE field office director who oversees deportation
operations in New York City, where all supervisors have had the training.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 1.2em; COLOR: black">“What I see from my officers,” Mr.
Shanahan said, “is that they understand that criminal aliens and national
security threats should be taken into custody and removed before a single
mother, a pregnant woman or someone with small United States citizen
children.”</p></div><u></u></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><div class="ecxgmail_quote">
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Palestine </b></span></span></p>
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<h2><a href="http://www.laborforpalestine.net/2012/01/07/lfp-support-the-longview-caravan-and-stop-union-busting/" target="_blank">Labor for Palestine: Support the Longview Caravan and stop
union-busting!</a></h2>
<b>Labor for Palestine expresses its strongest solidarity with the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union and its workers in Longview,
Washington. ILWU Local 21 in Longview is under attack by a major corporation,
EGT, which is running a non-union grain terminal at the port, violating the port
agreement with the ILWU, which has governed the port’s operations for over 75
years.</b><BR>
The ILWU’s response to this union-busting attempt has been militant and
strong, and the center of solidarity from the ongoing Occupy/Decolonize
movements. If the ILWU’s jurisdiction is broken at the Port of Longview, union
rights are under threat at container ports up and down the West Coast.<BR>
The ILWU struggle in Longview has drawn the attention and solidarity of
popular movements across the U.S. and internationally as a central struggle for
workers’ rights, and ILWU Local 10 of the Port of Oakland has been at the center
of that organizing.<BR>
Occupy Oakland, working in solidarity with the ILWU, mobilized 30,000 people
on November 2, 2011 to shut down the Port of Oakland in explicit solidarity with
the struggle of Longview workers and the longshore workers of Oakland, and ports
up and down the West Coast were shut down or protested on December 12, 2011 by
Occupy movements in Seattle, Portland, Oakland and elsewhere, again in response
to the ILWU battle in Longview.<BR>
ILWU Local 10 has itself come under attack by the Pacific Maritime
Association, pursued in court because of its strong action against the
destruction of public workers’ rights to organize in Wisconsin, shutting down
the ports of San Francisco and Oakland for 24 hours on April 4, 2011. Despite
threats to itself, ILWU Local 10 has once again stood in the front lines with
ILWU Local 21 and in defense of the rights of all workers.The workers of
Longview have faced massive repression; ILWU Local 21 has only 225 members, but
220 arrests for participating in protests at the port to defend their union’s
jurisdiction. They have brought over 1,000 people to the Port of Longview in
protest, and inspired the Occupy protest actions at the ports up and down the
West Coast.<BR>
<b>Workers on the West Coast, including ILWU Locals 10 and 21 and the San
Francisco and Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Labor Councils, have announced plans for
a caravan to Longview to join the workers in protest when called to action
(</b><a href="http://www.transportworkers.org/node/2101" target="_blank"><b>http://www.transportworkers.</b><u></u><u></u><b>org/node/2101</b></a><b>).</b><BR>
ILWU Local 10′s defense of their sisters and brothers in the Port of Longview
reflects a long history of domestic and international solidarity.<BR>
West Coast dock-workers refused to handle cargo for Nazi Germany (1934) and
fascist Italy (1935); refused shipping for apartheid South Africa in the San
Francisco Bay Area (1984); and refused to load bombs for the Pinochet
dictatorship in Chile (1978). ILWU workers at all twenty-nine West Coast ports
held a May Day strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008.<BR>
On June 20, 2010, they respected a community picket by refusing to load an
Israeli ZIM ship docked at the Port of Oakland. The picket came at the behest of
calls from the Palestinian labor movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions
and followed in the footsteps of multiple resolutions passed by ILWU Local 10 in
support of Palestinian human and workers’ rights.<BR>
<b>In the same spirit of solidarity, Labor for Palestine supports the call
for the Longview Caravan. Just as the workers of the ILWU have stood in
solidarity with Palestine, we stand with the workers of the ILWU in Longview,
Oakland, and everywhere in their struggle to defend workers’ power and stop
union-busting.</b><BR><span class="ecxHOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br clear="all"></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14696?akid=8098.16102.UDEM0J&t=4" target="_blank"><img height="106" alt="" src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1325885589_screenshot20120106at4.32.44pm.png_640x481_150x107" width="150" border="0"></a>
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<span style="COLOR: #b22222"><strong>INSIDE THIS ISSUE:</strong></span><BR>
1. <a href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#1">‘A Nightmare on Wall
Street’ – Nurses Premiere New Video</a><BR>
2. <a href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#2">Organizing Victory --
Jackson Park Hospital RNs Vote to Join NNU</a><BR>
3. <a href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#3">Nurses to Join Call
for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday Rallies</a><BR>
4. <a href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#4">Nurse Talk Radio Year
in Review</a><a href="http://mailing_edit.php/?mailing_id=1200#4" target="_blank">
- 2011 Nurse Activism </a><BR>
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<span style="COLOR: #b22222"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><strong>1. ‘A
Nightmare on Wall Street’ – Nurses Premiere New Video</strong></span></span><BR>
<strong>To Kick Off Stepped Up Campaign to Tax Wall Street<br>To Help Spur
Actions for the 99% and a Wall Street Tax to Heal America</strong><BR>
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Kicking off the new year in which the ongoing economic crisis will continue
to plague millions of American families, the nation’s largest nurses’
organization today unveiled a dramatic short video, “A Nightmare on Wall Street”
to renew the push for a tax on Wall Street speculation to raise critically
needed funds to heal America. Watch and share the video below.<BR>
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<li><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0e51/ac40fff/715ed205/1685b806/3109977489/VEsC/" target="_blank">Read the full press release</a><a target="_blank" name="2"></a></li></ul>
<img height="234" alt="Chicago RNs vote YES to join NNU" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6650039301_111a2c5ffa.jpg" width="500"><BR>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><span style="COLOR: rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>2.
Chicago Landslide—Jackson Park Hospital RNs Vote By 85 Percent to Join Nation’s
Largest RN Union</strong></span></span><BR>
Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s
South Side voted by 85 percent Friday to join National Nurses United, the
nation’s largest union and professional association of RNs. The Jackson Park RNs
voted 94 to 16 to join NNU. The secret ballot election was conducted by the
National Labor Relations Board. NNU will represent some 150 RNs at the
hospital.<BR>
“This is a victory for the nurses and the South Side of Chicago. Together we
realized unity is the best way to advocate for our patients and preserve respect
for the registered nurse," said Jackson Park RN Leshaun Williams.<BR>
“I am so excited about our victory and what this means for the future of
nursing at Jackson Park,” said Patricia Drake, a Jackson Park RN.<BR>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0e51/ac40fff/715ed205/1685b807/3109977489/VEsD/" target="_blank">Read the full press release</a><a target="_blank" name="3"></a></li></ul>
<a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0e51/ac40fff/715ed205/1685b804/3109977489/VEsA/" target="_blank"><img height="95" alt="Campaign for a Healthy California" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6649523039_f38c62146d_o.jpg" width="450"></a><BR>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><span style="COLOR: rgb(178,34,34)"><strong>3.
Nurses to Join Call for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday
Rallies</strong></span></span><BR>
<strong>Actions in Sacramento, Los Angeles to Challenge Insurance
Giants,<br>Seek Passage of Bill to Extend Guaranteed Care to All
Californians</strong><BR>
A broad coalition of activists – including registered nurses, medical
students, seniors, physicians, members of the Occupy movement, and the recently
formed Campaign for a Health California (CHC) – will hold marches and rallies
Monday, January 9 in Sacramento and Los Angeles to step up the campaign to
extend guaranteed healthcare coverage to all Californians.<BR>
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<li><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0e51/ac40fff/715ed205/1685b804/3109977489/VEsB/" target="_blank">Learn more at the all new "Campaign for a Healthy California"
website</a><a target="_blank" name="4"></a></li></ul>
<img height="115" alt="Nurse Talk Radieo" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6650196345_da73470e19_o.jpg" width="400"><BR>
<span style="COLOR: rgb(178,34,34)"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">4.
Nurse Talk Radio Year in Review -</span></strong></span><span style="COLOR: #b22222"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"> 2011 Nurse
Activism </span></strong></span><BR>
So much happened this past year: nurses joined the protests in Madison,
Wisconsin; went on to the nation’s capitol to march outside the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce; hit Wall Street to demand a transaction tax—before Occupy even pitched
a tent; announced the Main Street Contract; fought for RN-patient ratios; joined
world leaders at the G-20 summit in Cannes; and 20,000 RNs staged a one-day
walk-out against Sutter Health Corp. in Northern California…whew! And all the
while spending 40+ hours a week caring for their patients.<BR>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0e51/ac40fff/715ed205/1685b805/3109977489/VEsO/" target="_blank">Hear what NNU nurses did the change the world in
2011</a></li></ul>
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<strong>Happy New Year Everyone!</strong><BR>
<strong><em><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Jean Ross, Karen Higgins, and
Deborah Burger</span></em></strong><br>Registered Nurses and NNU
Co-Presidents<BR>
<strong>National Nurses United</strong><br>8630 Fenton Street, Suite
1100<br>Silver Spring, MD 20910<br>www.NationalNursesUnited.org<BR>
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