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<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Job Growth Has Not Picked Up Enough to Rehire the Workers Let Go After the Recession </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><A style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14916?akid=8131.16102.ueigX0&t=5" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT size=3>After PA School District Goes Broke, Incredible Teachers Agree to Keep Teaching Without Pay</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT size=3> </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14906?akid=8128.16102.3SLxRH&t=21" target=_blank><STRONG>Workers Now Have Right to Class-Action Lawsuits Against Bosses</STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT size=3> </FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN><STRONG><FONT size=3>Workers to Face Coast Guard at Longview(1st time since the postal<BR>strike the military mobilized to crush a strike) </FONT></STRONG></DIV></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Nigeria's Working Class Threatens to Shut Down Oil after Days of<BR>General Strike </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Bucks County PA Goes on Strike </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>NEA Bosses Want to Start Their Merger Scam Again. Here is what<BR>Happened the last Time: "NEA AFT AFL CIO? HELL NO! </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Henwood on Massive* *Constant Unemployment* </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline </FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production<BR><BR></FONT></STRONG> </LI></OL>
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<DIV><STRONG>Job Growth Has Not Picked Up Enough to Rehire the Workers Let Go After the Recession<BR></STRONG><FONT color=#cc0000><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4JlF8h/0Jv5o6SFALdvcbI592tOLOeDs" target=_blank>Read the Article at MSNBC </A></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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<P style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=ecxheadline3><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14906?akid=8128.16102.3SLxRH&t=21" target=_blank>Workers Now Have Right to Class-Action Lawsuits Against Bosses</A><BR>
<P style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #666; FONT-SIZE: 12px">The NLRB ruled that the right of employees to join collectively together to take action against their employees was a protected activity. <A style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.1em; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class=ecxreadmore href="http://act.alternet.org/go/14906?akid=8128.16102.3SLxRH&t=22" target=_blank><STRONG>READ MORE</STRONG></A> </P>
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<DIV>The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the<BR>Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor<BR>groups say they are planning to greet the vessel with a massive<BR>protest. EGT officials say they have not scheduled a date for the<BR>ship's arrival. The freighter is expected to haul thousands of tons of<BR>grain to Asia, but opposition groups are already marshaling their<BR>forces to support the lengthy protest by union dock workers at the<BR>grain terminal. "We just want to swell the population of the city to<BR>show there are people behind us," said Jeff Washburn, president of the<BR>Cowlitz Wahkiakum Central Labor Council, which passed a resolution<BR>calling for a protest this week. <BR><A href="http://tdn.com/news/local/protest-planned-for-first-ship-to-dock-at-egt-grain/article_e9b1d6e0-38d7-11e1-aac5-001871e3ce6c.html" target=_blank>http://tdn.com/news/local/protest-planned-for-first-ship-to-dock-at-egt-grain/article_e9b1d6e0-38d7-11e1-aac5-001871e3ce6c.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Nigeria’s main oil union said Thursday that it would shut down oil production on Sunday if the government did not<BR>reverse its decision to remove popular fuel subsidies. Nationwide<BR>strikes prompted by the decision, which has doubled gas prices,<BR>continued Thursday, as tens of thousands of people protested for the<BR>fourth straight day. President Goodluck Jonathan met with labor unions<BR>on Thursday to try to resolve the dispute. The president of one of the<BR>largest unions, Abdulwaheed Omar of Nigeria Labor Congress, called the<BR>talks “fruitful” and said they would meet again on Saturday.<BR>Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer. <BR> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/africa/nigeria-oil-workers-threaten-to-shut-off-crude-flow-in-protest.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y" target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/africa/nigeria-oil-workers-threaten-to-shut-off-crude-flow-in-protest.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>About 600 teachers at a large<BR>suburban Philadelphia school district went on strike Monday after<BR>working for three years without a contract. The teachers in the<BR>Neshaminy School District in Bucks County haven't received any pay<BR>increases since the last contract expired in 2008, but they pay<BR>nothing toward their health insurance premiums. "We'd like to be in<BR>the classrooms teaching," said Charlene Dixon, a fifth-grade teacher<BR>who's going on strike for the first strike time in her 28 years<BR>teaching. "We are ready and willing to negotiate. ... We want a fair<BR>contract." <BR> <A href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/01/teachers-philly-area-district-plan-walkout/2075931?utm_source=feedburner+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking&utm_medium=feed+Breaking+News&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking+%28Breaking+News%29feed&utm_content=feed&utm_term=feed" target=_blank>http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/01/teachers-philly-area-district-plan-walkout/2075931?utm_source=feedburner+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking&utm_medium=feed+Breaking+News&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dcexaminer%2Fbreaking+%28Breaking+News%29feed&utm_content=feed&utm_term=feed</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>This essay assails one of the liberals' favorite projects in the 1990's, the manufacture<BR>of a merger between the largest union in the United States, the<BR>independent National Education Association, and the AFT-AFL-CIO. It<BR>focuses on the particulars of the merger, often using the voices of<BR>proponents and opposition forces, in part because the roots of change<BR>are within the material details, and their interpretations, of<BR>history. Because there are few radicals or revolutionaries operating<BR>openly within the NEA, the critique goes mainly to the liberal drive<BR>to unite the unions from the top. Even so, the absence of radicals and<BR>revolutionaries in either union is a telling point about the state of<BR>U.S. radicalism at the turn of the century. <BR><A href="http://clogic.eserver.org/2-1/gibson.html" target=_blank>http://clogic.eserver.org/2-1/gibson.html</A> [9]</DIV>
<DIV> <BR><FONT size=4><STRONG>The Merger Statement from NEA Boss John Wilson</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers will<BR>begin merger talks as they realize it is in the best interest of<BR>sustainability and power as well as an efficient use of members' dues<BR>dollars. <BR><A href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/john_wilson_unleashed/2012/01/my_predictions_for_2012.html" target=_blank>http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/john_wilson_unleashed/2012/01/my_predictions_for_2012.html</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Employers added 200,000 jobs in December. Over a fifth of that gain, 42,000, came from<BR>couriers and messengers—meaning all those FedEx and UPS folks<BR>delivering holiday packages ordered from the likes of Amazon. Online<BR>retailers had a great December. Not so much for brick and mortar<BR>retailers, who’d apparently expected otherwise and hired<BR>ambitiously, adding another 28,000 to the headline figure. Given the<BR>ultimate disappointment of the holiday season, retail-store-wise, and<BR>the explicitly temporary nature of the courier jobs, these<BR>gains—which together accounted for over a third of the total—are<BR>likely to be reversed in January. What I’ve been calling the eat,<BR>drink, and get sick sector returned to its previous strength after<BR>slipping in November, as bars and restaurants and health care together<BR>added almost 50,000, a quarter of the total. <BR><A href="http://lbo-news.com/2012/01/06/that-jobs-report/" target=_blank>http://lbo-news.com/2012/01/06/that-jobs-report/</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline<BR></STRONG>Staff, Rethinking Schools: "What if many of our students - particularly our African American, Latina/o, Native American, and Southeast Asian children - are being channeled toward prison and a lifetime of second-class status? We believe that this is the case, and there is ample evidence to support that claim. What has come to be called the 'school-to-prison pipeline' is turning too many schools into pathways to incarceration rather than opportunity."<BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C6SnKp2h/E84%2BxT7yuS53kzz0WgWQhEB" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production<BR></STRONG>Jeff Nall, Toward Freedom: "Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence indicating that the laborers whom they have to thank for cultivating these products are being grossly exploited, live in spiraling poverty, and, in some cases, are modern-day slaves."<BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QOan2uSI2KvxzKJSLYlYY0zz0WgWQhEB" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR></DIV>
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