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<div><ol><li><h3 style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; font-family: georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/pregnant-and-pushed-out-of-a-job.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Pregnant, and Pushed Out of a Job</a></h3></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Three Kaiser Unions Walk Out Again in California, while SEIU Stays Putţ<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Radical threat to workers' rightsţ</h2></li><li><strong style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">On the News With Thom Hartmann: Arizona Republicans to Introduce Draconian Anti-Union Legislation This Week, and More</strong> </li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Foul Play Before the Superbowlţ<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Stop China's Unfair Auto Parts Tradeţ</h2></li><li><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/15435?akid=8198.16102.48om8B&t=24" target="_blank" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Apple Tries Damage Control after Horrific Working Conditions at its Factories Exposed</a> </li><li><strong style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">On the News With Thom Hartmann: Indiana Becomes First Right-to-Work State in Ten Years, and More</strong> </li><li><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/15491?akid=8207.16102.cE0srI&t=13" target="_blank" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Unions Shocked By American Airlines Proposed Cuts</a> </li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/15494?akid=8207.16102.cE0srI&t=16" target="_blank" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Where the Jobs (Still) Aren’t</a> </span></li></ol></div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
</div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; font-family: georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/pregnant-and-pushed-out-of-a-job.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Pregnant, and Pushed Out of a Job</a></h3><h6 style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial, sans-serif; ">By DINA BAKST</h6><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Thanks to a gap between discrimination laws and disability laws, it's possible for a pregnant woman to be forced from her job.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Three Kaiser Unions Walk Out Again in California, while<br>SEIU Stays Put<br>Steve Early <br>February 1, 2012<br><a href="http://labornotes.org/2012/02/three-kaiser-unions-walk-out-again-california-hospitals-while-seiu-stays-put" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://labornotes.org/2012/02/three-kaiser-unions-walk-out-again-california-hospitals-while-seiu-stays-put</a><br><br>As three unions at the Kaiser Permanente health care<br>chain in California pulled a one-day statewide walkout<br>yesterday, their solidarity went unmatched by the<br>company's largest union, the Service Employees.<br><br>In Modesto, Shawna Stewart, a steward and board member<br>for SEIU's United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), began<br>receiving calls from members asking whether it was OK to<br>honor the picket lines of 22,000 members of the National<br>Union of Healthcare Workers, the California Nurses<br>Association, and the Operating Engineers.<br><br>Stewart sent an email to everyone at her facility,<br>stressing that their contract has a no-strike clause.<br>Stewart argued that SEIU's 44,000 service and technical<br>workers should not respect the picket lines of other<br>Kaiser unions because "this is not our fight."<br><br>SEIU UHW officials had similarly warned members away<br>from sympathy action last September in response to short<br>strikes then by NUHW and CNA.<br><br>Taking aim at NUHW in particular, Stewart claimed that<br>its members "put themselves at risk" of contract<br>concessions when they decertified SEIU and joined the<br>new union. "Now they have to fight for everything they<br>ALREADY had," Stewart finger-wagged. Their switch was<br>triggered when the SEIU International trusteed their<br>local and removed the leadership in 2009.<br><br>"If they want our support, they would need to sign a<br>card saying they want to come back and then they can<br>keep what they had," Stewart said, adding "it's always<br>best to stick with the winning team."<br><br>Health Care Winners and Losers<br>For thousands of other Kaiser workers, forging<br>rank-and-file unity and striking together on January 31<br>seemed like a better way to build a "winning team" when<br>Kaiser wants givebacks on pensions, health care, and<br>more. The three sponsoring unions claimed high levels of<br>rank-and-file participation at scores of hospitals and<br>clinics around the Golden State.<br><br>NUHW struck, as it has several times before, to back up<br>ongoing negotiations involving 4,000 mental health<br>professionals, optical workers, and Southern California<br>nurses who switched from SEIU to NUHW in 2010.<br><br>CNA's 17,000 RNs at Kaiser in northern California joined<br>the work stoppage, even though their contract doesn't<br>expire until 2014. Kaiser dragged the nurses into<br>arbitration last fall, saying CNA violated the<br>"no-strike" clause in its contract after the union<br>called on members to strike in sympathy. Union leaders<br>pointed to legal precedents that back up members' rights<br>to honor other workers' picket lines.<br><br>A new addition to the fray was 650 members of Stationary<br>Engineers Local 39, who maintain the hospitals' air<br>conditioning, refrigeration, and physical plant. They,<br>like CNA, struck in sympathy with NUHW and helped picket<br>other building trades workers off the job at Kaiser<br>construction sites.<br><br>By some estimates, hundreds of health care workers who<br>belong to SEIU also stayed home or showed up to picket.<br>They ignored warnings and resisted pressure from their<br>own union, which remains wedded to Kaiser's<br>"Labor-Management Partnership" program. (For more on<br>that program, see here and here.)<br><br>Union: Patients at Risk<br>At a boisterous picket line outside Kaiser's Oakland<br>Medical Center, strikers sang, danced, and distributed<br>flyers to patients and their families that stressed<br>safe-staffing issues as well as the concession threats.<br>In a statement issued by CNA, nurse leader Zenei Cortez,<br>a 29-year Kaiser veteran, said that while they reward<br>themselves, Kaiser executives want to eliminate secure<br>retirement and retiree health care, make other health<br>care takeaways, and "refuse to bargain for sufficient<br>staffing for mental health services."<br><br>Several Kaiser professionals, including psychiatric<br>technician Juan Ibarra and social worker Amy Thigpen,<br>echoed the criticisms made in "Care Delayed, Care<br>Denied", a whistle-blowing report issued by NUHW last<br>November based on information provided by unionized<br>social workers and psychologists, plus outside experts.<br><br>The study documents Kaiser's "systematic" failures to<br>observe "recommended clinical standards" and thus meet<br>the mental health needs of patients suffering from<br>autism, depression, schizophrenia, and bi-polar<br>disorder. NUHW accused Kaiser of failing to comply with<br>state laws requiring "timely access" to appropriate<br>care.<br><br>NUHW is lobbying state and federal officials to<br>"initiate immediate investigations to determine the full<br>extent of Kaiser's regulatory violations."<br><br>Thigpen's union, SEIU, has refrained from any such<br>public criticism of Kaiser and discouraged social<br>workers from joining yesterday's strike. Nevertheless,<br>about half of Thigpen's co-workers respected the picket<br>lines on Howe Street in Oakland.<br><br>Not About Purple and Red<br>Wearing their crimson NUHW T-shirts, Larry Parker, Sonia<br>Minor, and their Kaiser co-workers were out early<br>yesterday morning, picketing at an optical center in<br>Richmond. Parker has spent 28 years with the chain. "If<br>Kaiser gets takeaways from us," he said, "they're just<br>going to do the same thing with everybody else."<br><br>"It's not about the purple and the red," agreed Minor,<br>referring to the signature colors of SEIU and NUHW. "At<br>the end of the day, we all work for Kaiser and we all<br>need to stand together to protect our benefits."<br><br>Minor has sat at the bargaining table for NUHW and heard<br>Kaiser negotiators demand that defined-benefit pensions<br>be eliminated--while CEO George Halvorson is receiving<br>nearly $9 million a year and gets multiple retirement<br>plan coverage. The hospital chain has made $5.7 billion<br>in the last three years.<br><br>But a very different picture of Kaiser's financial<br>health and future was presented 10 days ago at a<br>pre-bargaining meeting of SEIU and other<br>labor-management partnership union delegates in San<br>Jose.<br><br>According to a Kaiser worker in attendance, Dave Regan,<br>who was installed as UHW's new leader three years ago,<br>suggested that Kaiser might end up like bankrupt General<br>Motors "if we're not careful."<br><br>A recording of the meeting reveals Regan saying there is<br>a "train bearing down on us" that might lead Kaiser to<br>"take our stuff," as he called the union's contract<br>benefits.<br><br>To fend off such low-road behavior, Regan argued that<br>"we can push [Kaiser] to a higher place." The<br>destination he described is an expanded employee<br>"wellness" program--of the sort SEIU has already helped<br>other California hospital chains introduce.<br><br>These programs essentially blame the personal habits of<br>workers for medical cost inflation--and penalize those<br>who fail to shape up. As Regan explained in San Jose:<br>"If you're overweight, you pay for more of your health<br>care. If you smoke, you pay 20 percent more. If you do<br>this or that, you pay more. That's what's going on out<br>there."<br><br>Can't Say No To Kaiser?<br>Regan proposed tying future contract bonus money "to how<br>we use health care to get healthy." This would, he<br>claimed, "protect what we have," while changing<br>Americans' perception of unions.<br><br>By email, the Kaiser worker who taped the meeting<br>accused UHW leaders of trying to soften up delegates.<br>"They never talk about the fact that Kaiser is rolling<br>in profits, that the CEO got a $1 million raise, and<br>that other unions are fighting Kaiser's cuts. Instead,<br>they try to scare us that we're going to turn into the<br>UAW and Kaiser will turn into General Motors unless we<br>let Kaiser cut our benefits. They tell us: 'You're lucky<br>to have a job.'<br><br>"Regan told us that we can't show up at the bargaining<br>table and say 'no' to the cuts," said the worker, who<br>insisted on anonymity. "Instead, he says we have to 'get<br>out in front of the cuts' by offering our own."<br><br>The continuing struggle over which path to take at<br>Kaiser--resistance to concessions or the non-adversarial<br>approach embraced by SEIU--will intensify in the months<br>to come.<br><br>In October 2010, NUHW lost its representation challenge<br>to SEIU in Kaiser's giant service and technical unit.<br>But the vote among those 43,000 employees was overturned<br>last summer after the NLRB found that SEIU's illegal<br>campaigning, along with Kaiser's unfair labor practices,<br>"interfered with the exercise of a free and reasoned<br>choice among employees."<br><br>If the workers adversely affected by this collusion get<br>another vote between the two unions in the middle of<br>SEIU's 2012 bargaining, Kaiser and SEIU may have a<br>harder time peddling concessions as a lasting<br>prescription for labor peace.<br><br>Steve Early's new book on the inter- and intra-union<br>conflict at Kaiser Permanente and other California<br>health care employers just went into its second<br>printing. Copies can be ordered from Haymarket Books at<br>www.civilwarsinlabor.org. Early can be reached at<br>Lsupport@aol.com.</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><table width="100%" border="0" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5f12737d63037d7414&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2012/01/31/20/23/1rsW1t.Hi.4.jpg" alt="" align="left" vspace="10" hspace="10" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "></a></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5f12737d63037d7414&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 20px; ">Some nurses join workers picketing Sacramento Kaiser hospitals</a><br><span style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; ">By Darrell Smith</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 16px; ">Kaiser health care workers, joined by nurses, picketed Tuesday at Kaiser Permanente Sacramento area hospitals, part of demonstrations statewide over stalled labor negotiations. - <a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5f12737d63037d7414&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px; ">Read More</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></pre></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=MGD6DDOWy0xnWRV4iicN/trVcDvcCh9Q" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(60, 167, 221); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); "><img height="135" border="0" width="760" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4004/c/11/images/e-activist-email-header.jpg" alt="Take Action | Communications Workers of America" id="ecxheaderimage" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "></a><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="25" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="760" class="ecxcontenttable" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="760" class="ecxcontentcell" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Dear Friend,</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=nmWfR8Uau8IGEt7Oh5poBNrVcDvcCh9Q" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; "><img hspace="6" height="250" border="0" align="right" width="200" alt="" class="ecxactionimage" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4004/c/11/images/btn-20110725-FAA-Reauthorization.png" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "></a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The rights of our brothers and sisters who work at airlines and railroads are in jeopardy.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Over 75 years ago, Democrats and Republicans worked together to craft the Railway Labor Act to resolve labor disputes in the airline and railroad industries. Under the Act, the National Mediation Board administers union representation elections in the industry.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Until today.</b></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Radical anti-union members of Congress are attempting to rewrite this important labor law and change the role of the National Mediation Board without debate or discussion. They have included drastic changes to the law in the FAA Reauthorization bill.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Q7aHCZsbyBFPobRsiNO1o9rVcDvcCh9Q" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Click here to write Congress today and make sure that these changes are removed from the FAA Reauthorization bill.</b></a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The changes these radicals are seeking would:</p><ul style="line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 1em; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 1em; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Make it much harder for airline and railroad workers to hold union representation elections.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Threaten airline and railroad workers’ right to a secret ballot during union representation campaigns, allowing for management intimidation and retaliation.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Allow airline and railroad management to decertify unions without an election in a merger.</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">And, in a shocking act of hypocrisy, it would enshrine these anti-worker changes into law. Meanwhile, the rule that promotes democracy by preventing non-voters from being counted as no votes in a union representation election would not be written into law, and could be easily changed.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The FAA Reauthorization bill is an important piece of legislation that must be passed to ensure safe, efficient air travel. It is not the place to make drastic changes to rules that protect the rights of workers to join labor unions.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">We must stand together to let Congress know that unrelated, controversial changes to labor law have no place in this bill.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><b style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=JyCnpdSOgQS3Of4ydkBzuNrVcDvcCh9Q" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Click here to use our easy online tool to contact Congress today.</a><br></b></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In Unity,</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" alt="Larry Cohen" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4004/c/803/images/cohen_sig.jpg"></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Larry Cohen<br>President</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="760" class="ecxcontenttable" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" width="760" class="ecxcell"><hr align="center" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; width: 592px; height: 1px; "></td></tr><tr><td style="line-height: 13px; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 10px; "><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">You have received this message through your subscription to a Communications Workers of America e-mail list.<br>If you did not subscribe or would like to unsubscribe <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=p4a3Q04OLn1gZbyEO%2BjMRdrVcDvcCh9Q" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">click here</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#f2f2f2" align="center" width="760" class="ecxcontenttable" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); "><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="600" class="table" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#d7d5d5" width="600" class="ecxcell"><table cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" width="760" class="ecxcontenttable" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td width="380" valign="top" class="ecxfootershow" style="line-height: 13px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(113, 113, 113); "><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC. 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The Indiana Senate today approved the proposed "right-to-work" legislation, </span><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">making it the first state since Oklahoma to adopt this destructive law. </span><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Governor Mitch Daniels is expected to sign it into law before the Super Bowl this weekend. <br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">As you know, “right-to-work” is not about rights or work. It is, <a href="http://www.ufcwaction.org/site/R?i=23epbTzJXSpDAqJsuB4r3A" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); cursor: pointer; ">as President Hansen said in the Huffington Post</a>, “the ultimate transfer of wealth from the 99 percent to the 1 percent.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">You can guarantee that special interest groups, big corporations, and anti-worker zealots will try to use their victory in Indiana as leverage to pass “right-to-work” in Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire, and in more and more states around the country.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Not on our watch! 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Click <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=RJQ453yyiZd/8ErIhC1rb%2BZw3ZfLE/L%2B" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">here</a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">More than 1.6 million American jobs in the nation’s auto supply chain are at risk unless China’s illegal trade practices are curtailed, three new reports find. United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard says, “China is cheating unmercifully in this sector,” and he urged the U.S. government to “enforce our trade policies” and crack down on China’s trade violations.</span></span><br></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" height="24"><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=gSGEP2/7EAbUTVwsPe/1%2B%2BZw3ZfLE/L%2B" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" alt="Read More" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/read_more.gif" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Got comments? 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