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color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" align="center"><table width="760" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img width="760" height="155" border="0" alt="Communications Workers of America | E-Activist Newsletter" src="http://cwa.bluestatedigital.com/page/-/e-activist-newsletter/header.jpg" style="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; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 30px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 30px; "><div class="ecxtop" style="line-height: 18px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-style: italic; ">March 15, 2012</p><ul style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(94, 94, 94); "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story1" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Bargaining for Four AT&T Contracts Continues</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story2" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Are You Ready for March 22?</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story3" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">AFL-CIO Endorses Re-election of President Obama</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story4" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWAers Stand Strong for Immigrant, Voting Rights in Alabama</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story5" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">AFA-CWA Reaches Tentative Pact at Hawaiian; Asks NMB to Declare Impasse at Spirit</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); "><a name="story1" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Bargaining for Four AT&T Contracts Continues</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 320px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="320" height="234" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7210/6839211400_3f9ab5265c.jpg" alt="AT&T West Bargaining" style="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; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Members of CWA Locals 9400, 9404, 9413, 9419, 9421 and 9431 have a message for AT&T West: "We are Ready."</p></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA bargaining teams are continuing separate negotiations with AT&T Midwest, AT&T West, AT&T Legacy and AT&T East. CWA negotiators are reporting tough bargaining at every table and are urging members to keep mobilizing to make certain that the companies know we're not backing down from our fair contract fight. Those contracts expire April 7. In the summer, CWA District 3 will begin negotiations with AT&T Southeast; that contract expires in early August.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Get the latest bargaining updates and mobilization reports at <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=kQE4ZHhjd5bPlUBCHdlyyk8nsLwDPjsb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.cwa-union.org/issues/entry/c/att</a>.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Are You Ready for March 22?</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">There's still time to find an event in your community and join in the National Day of Action, that hits "1 percent" Verizon for its corporate greed, and brings union and progressive activists together to stand up for each other's fights on March 22.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Go to <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=7eZJs1vqlpWdFyLs7ijvik8nsLwDPjsb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">www.stopverizongreed.com</a> to find an event or post information about what your local has planned. Across AFL-CIO unions, across the labor movement, with support from Jobs with Justice and lots of progressive groups, activists are joining together on March 22.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">There will be hundreds of events and actions across the country. Many CWAers and supporters will leaflet at Verizon Wireless stores to support the fair contract fight of VZW workers. Union activists, Occupiers and others will rally to focus attention on the corporate greed of companies like Verizon, Wells Fargo and more.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Some highlights:</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; ">In San Francisco, numerous unions, the SF Labor council, elected officials and activists across the area have endorsed the March 22 action. The action starts at noon outside a big shopping area on Market St., where janitors and Retail Clerks members will talk about their fight for fairness and a fair contract, followed by a march past the Verizon Wireless store and a Wells Fargo bank branch, to support Service Employees members.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">In New York, CWA and Transport Workers Union members are joining forces for actions at Verizon and the Metropolitan Transit Authority.</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Check out the full list of events at <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=jyBmUE3yqPyBT4%2BldvehxE8nsLwDPjsb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">www.stopverizongreed.com</a>, and make sure you're a part of the action on March 22.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">And tune in to CWA's national telephone town hall on Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 EDT. Go to <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=DGRJpdQVreABWy9RUoVK%2BU8nsLwDPjsb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">www.cwa-union.org/cwacall</a> to sign up.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story3" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">AFL-CIO Endorses Re-election of President Obama</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Meeting this week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorsed the re-election of President Obama, stressing that the President "honors the values of hard work, of mutual respect and of solving problems together — not every person for himself or herself...Each of the Republican presidential candidates, on the other hand, has pledged to uphold the special privileges of Wall Street and the 1% — privileges that have produced historic economic inequality and drowned out the voices of working people in America."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA endorsed President Obama's re-election on Feb. 2, following more than two months of online voting and information provided to members on all the candidates. By a 5-1 margin, CWAers chose President Obama over the Republican field.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Over the past year, the Republican field of candidates made clear its position that when it comes to losing a job, contracting a serious illness, sending a child to college or looking forward to retirement, in today's United States, working families should be on their own. This is especially true when it comes to workers' rights. No Republican candidate stood up for the rights of workers to organize and bargain collectively," CWA's Executive Board said in a statement.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"We've seen the start of a growing movement to take back our country and to end the control of corporations and the wealthy that truly threatens our democracy. We need elected leaders who support this movement to restore democracy. President Obama is that leader."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">President Cohen said CWA will focus on member-to-member communications and contacts in the months leading up to the November elections. CWA's legislative-political actions teams, which have been working on legislative issues like the bill to stop the offshoring of call center jobs, will play a critical part in CWA's campaign work.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story4" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWAers Stand Strong for Immigrant, Voting Rights in Alabama</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 320px; float: left; font-size: 10px; margin-right: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="320" height="230" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6839211212_4491b02536.jpg" alt="3-2-12 Alabama" style="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; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where 47 years ago civil rights activists were met with police dogs and clubs, are CWA members and leaders who joined this year's week-long march to Montgomery. The CWA group included Local 3204 President Walter Andrews, D6 Vice President Claude Cummings and D3 Organizing Coordinator Sheila Williams-Cain.</p></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA members and leaders made the week-long march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., last week, ending in a big rally on the steps of the state capitol.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The route recreated the historic march of 47 years ago, but also focused on Alabama's recent assault on voting rights and immigrants. Alabama enacted the most vicious, anti-immigrant law in the nation last year, and also approved new measures to suppress the voting rights of the elderly, people of color, students and low-income persons.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 175px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="175" height="223" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6839211324_f9bd0bb891.jpg" alt="Larry Cohen_Atlanta_church" style="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; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">President Cohen and CWA marchers spent the night in churches on the way to Montgomery.</p></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Among CWAers joining the march were CWA President Larry Cohen; Vice Presidents Judy Dennis, D3, Claude Cummings, D6, and Brooks Sunkett, Public Healthcare and Education Workers; Local 3204 President Walter Andrews and a CWA contingent from Atlanta; and CWA Human Rights and Special Projects Director Chris Kennedy.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA President Larry Cohen's remarks at the capitol were broadcast as part of "Politics Nation," the MSNBC television program hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton; Sharpton's program was broadcast from the rally.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"The march brought out high school students, Latinos, union members, civil rights activists, and lots of regular folks fed up with the attack on ordinary people. There was singing and chanting and lots of solidarity," Cohen said.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Along the way, marchers slept in churches and rallied in communities. About 125 CWA activists and leaders joined the march and rally.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story5" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">AFA-CWA Reaches Tentative Pact at Hawaiian; Asks NMB to Declare Impasse at Spirit</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">AFA-CWA reached a tentative agreement with Hawaiian Airlines covering 1,200 Flight Attendants.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The agreement was reached with the assistance of the National Mediation Board, using a "Facilitated Problem Solving" approach to negotiations.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"This agreement recognizes the contributions that AFA-CWA Flight Attendants make on a daily basis to the tremendous success of our airline," said Sharon Soper, AFA President at Hawaiian.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">If approved by AFA-CWA leadership at Hawaiian, the tentative settlement goes to the membership for a ratification vote.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">At Spirit Airlines, Flight Attendants, fed up with management delay and demands for givebacks, are calling on the NMB to declare an impasse in negotiations and requested a proffer of arbitration. AFA-CWA represents about 870 Flight Attendants at Spirit.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">That's the first step to the NMB setting a 30-day cooling-off period, the time during which intense negotiations usually take place and lead to a settlement or a strike.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">A nearly unanimous 98.4 percent of voting Spirit Flight Attendants authorized a strike if management fails to negotiate a new contract. Flight Attendants tried to deliver a petition signed by hundreds of Flight Attendants to Spirit's CEO, calling on management to engage in meaningful and productive discussions, but they were turned away.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"It's long past time for management to take these negotiations seriously. We filed for mediation two years ago in order to speed up negotiations and get management's attention. We want an agreement that recognizes our contributions, and we are prepared to strike if that is what it takes to get this management focused on reaching an agreement," said Todd St. Pierre, Spirit AFA President.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">AFA-CWA members will hold an informational picket next week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., following negotiations. 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</div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><font style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">How We Cured "the Culture of Poverty," Not Poverty Itself</strong></font><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch: "Fifty years later, a new discovery of poverty is long overdue. This time, we'll have to take account not only of stereotypical Skid Row residents and Appalachians, but of foreclosed-upon suburbanites, laid-off tech workers, and America's ever-growing army of the working poor. And if we look closely enough, we'll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money." </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qww86t73lErW16v%2B7nsS0BDYezjakPG9" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#cc0000" style="line-height: normal; ">Read the Article</font></a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span>
</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); "><br></span></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><font style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">As Obama Picks Up Union Endorsements, a Debate on Labor's Role in 2012 Campaign (Video)</strong></font><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "We host a debate on Big Labor's endorsement of President Obama's re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a union that has pledged support of President Obama. This week the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor organization, endorsed Obama following earlier statements of support from several unions, including the Service Employees International Union; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the American Federation of Teachers; and the Communications Workers of America." </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BvHeMsX1Sg%2Bp3vx2VTJCcBDYezjakPG9" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#cc0000" style="line-height: normal; ">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span>
</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); "><br></span></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://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=vzewYO/FHLQohVxRPUY5U/sbYtB6dk7rzEJ6ZJOTL6bv+/VC+UMwJcCDoLWmlDQzDT1n2P2hYpVLahRKk3nr30Q8guUWPx2ysyM8S6nMpWyNXXGBFm4jVK86eTCwcDx5Wl0w9pObGwdRgAA3N4kR6A==&campaign_id=67&instance_id=13673&segment_id=30940&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Unions Urge Curtailment of 'Super PACs'</a></h3><h6 class="ecxbyline" 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-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">By STEVEN GREENHOUSE</h6><div style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Unions may be benefiting from a ruling allowing for "super PACs," but they still want their activities curtailed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></p></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/16815?akid=8415.16102.X19FBg&t=7" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1331334955_shutterstock75309625.jpg_640x425_150x107" alt="" width="150" height="107" border="0" style="border-style: initial; 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font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; ">READ MORE</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: x-small; "><em>Lauren Kelley / AlterNet</em></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 8pt; "><em><br></em></span></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="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); 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margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Friends say that after the ICE agents came, Delgado was terrified she would be separated from her daughter, and equally frightened she might be found by her abuser. <a class="ecxreadmore" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/16851?akid=8415.16102.X19FBg&t=22" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">READ MORE</strong></a></p><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); ">By Shelby Kinney-Lang / AlterNet</p><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); "><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 17px; 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And so do the brief moments you take out of your day to take action with us, as one of our most valuable online activists.<br><br>Whether it’s sending a message to Congress or state and local officials, adding your name to a petition, or sharing something that we post on Facebook, one thing is certain – our online efforts make a difference, and change is powered by folks like you.<br><br>That’s why I hope you’ll help us make AFSCME even more powerful by helping grow our online activist network. <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OF1ugWZUQbR9TLXVi3wOaBsyMtRWhSUE" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">You can use our “Tell-A-Friend” page to send a message to your co-workers and fellow AFSCME members, asking them to join you as an online leader.</strong></a><br><br><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">We believe so much in the power of you – in the power of a committed and active base of online members – that we're giving away a $50 gift card to the AFSCME store for every 500 new recruits we get between now and March 31.</strong><br><br>The more we grow our base, the greater your chance of winning free merchandise from our<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1dKJHeApOCt7W6ELsWuU0BsyMtRWhSUE" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">online store</a> – but you have to <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UF2jOHB9PlJtihaf4Aw6oRsyMtRWhSUE" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">use our special “Tell-A-Friend” page to be entered.</strong></a><br><br>We’ve made it easy by providing a sample message that you can send to your friends and co-workers, but the most effective way to recruit them to join you as an AFSCME online leader is to personalize your message – to tell them why YOU take action with AFSCME online, and send them our special link.<br><br>Thanks for everything you’ve done and will to do to help defend public services and the folks who provide them. I hope that you’ll help us grow our online activist network by asking your friends and co-workers to join you today: <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=etl%2BADKJL2l%2B5hPTLqU0FhsyMtRWhSUE" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">afsc.me/friendcontest.</strong></a><br><br>In solidarity, <br><br>Tracey Conaty <br>AFSCME e-Action Network</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="628" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><div style="line-height: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KMWuXsKG4/1q7KSkRtmQhRsyMtRWhSUE" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img width="120" vspace="5" height="36" border="0" alt="" src="http://action.afscme.org/c/51/images/badge-facebook.gif" style="border-style: initial; 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"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">March 15, 2012</b></span></span></p><table align="right" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; width: 22px; height: 38px; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=HxXH3JDpo/cUgkPE%2B5Cf%2BJdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/Wisconsin-Recall.jpg" title="Reclaim Wisconsin" alt="Reclaim Wisconsin" 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><span style="line-height: 13px; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=44/1T/k0OkalKRch0ePsbZdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">With election dates set, Wisconsin working families will have a chance to reclaim their state when they go to the polls later this spring to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R)</font></a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">The AFL-CIO Executive Council yesterday offered a blueprint for a new model of economic growth to rebuild an economy that had crashed following three decades of economic policies designed by and for Wall Street and the wealthiest Americans. See the links below for other action from the council’s annual winter meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=9o6UKtFL%2BZ7bfr81YI7fHpdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Read more and comment</font></b></a><b style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">.</font></b> <img alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/navy_arrow.jpg"></span></span></p><hr align="left" width="30%" color="#cccccc"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/button_most-recent-blog-posts_225.jpg"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=3H8xir/XgHASM%2Bzhrt52hZdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">Wisconsin Recall Election Dates Set</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=xLGVneVxxVVtK7gLaf1ZjpdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">AFL-CIO Calls for Overturning Citizens United Case</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=xVYR6m4sCGXUbGFPThay3SiuYEzjo6/l" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">AFL-CIO Calls for Across-the-Board Raise in Social Security Benefits</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bbvy0sZQ%2BhOwXunvtL7qvpdVU%2BPYh11o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">Council Urges Action on Deadly Silica Dust Rule, Condemns N.Y. 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Become a mobile activist</nobr><br><nobr>by joining the AFL-CIO Rapid Action Text Team.</nobr><br><nobr>Text <strong style="font-weight: bold; ">NEWS</strong> to <strong style="font-weight: bold; ">AFLCIO (235246)</strong> to receive action alerts and more.</nobr><br>(Message and data rates may apply.)<br></em></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">To find out more about the AFL-CIO, please visit our website at <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=cB8eOiM4bdkdWpOAyLha4INK%2BEaxGK5j" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">www.aflcio.org</font></b></a>.</span></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<div><br></div><div><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="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(153, 153, 153); "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=jr%2BoUHRhtizAQsvbWWUAQzDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4022/images/takeActionBannerFINAL.jpg" alt="" 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></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="625" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" border="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(153, 153, 153); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table align="right" style="line-height: 17px; width: 200px; "><tbody><tr><td width="10%"></td><td><table style="line-height: 17px; 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: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; border-image: initial; width: 200px; height: 125px; "><tbody><tr><td style="width: 192px; "><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">Rinse, Repeat, and...<br>Unionbust??</strong></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=WRhabtzQuHLTmw6w8raBjDDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">Tell Aveda and Dosha: Unionbusting isn't stylish. Negotiate a fair contract now!</strong></a></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="10%"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Aveda may take great care of your hair, but it's not taking great care of some of its employees.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Nearly 12 months ago, workers at Dosha, a Portland, Oregon, chain of five Aveda-licensed salons, voted to form a union. But instead of working with employees to make Dosha both a great salon chain and a great place to work, management has pulled every trick in the book to avoid negotiating a contract.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Worse, two pro-union workers have been fired, and others say they've been retaliated against, spied on, and threatened.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=NYRNYYLW8TXQF5Ar4LiuTDDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Tell Dosha management and Aveda executives that unionbusting isn't stylish – negotiate a fair contract immediately!</a></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">These salon workers are counting on your support. They've been through the ringer trying to secure more respect and fair standards on the job. The company owners think the longer they put off negotiating, the greater the chance that their employees will give up their fight. And we can't let them get away with it.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">In the beauty industry, image is everything. Let's make Aveda rethink its image as a unionbuster. The next bargaining session is Tuesday – so we urgently need you to express your outrage to Aveda and Dosha management.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">They need to hear from you NOW. <a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=q%2B8dcd2qtLIi2x7yraEldjDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Tell Aveda and Dosha to cut the unionbusting.</a></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">The hair stylists, nail technicians, skin care specialists, and masseuses at this upscale chain are trying hard not be intimidated. They're committed to sticking it out and negotiating a contract because they love what they do. They just want a voice at work.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Explains esthetician Rachel Voorhies, "I love my job. I want Dosha to be extremely successful, and in return, I want to be able to make a fair living... and better serve my clients."</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Unfortunately, that loyalty isn't being rewarded. In fact, things have continued to get worse for employees, and the National Labor Relations Board even issued an official complaint against the salon for the reported firing and retaliation. But that hasn't stopped management from installing surveillance cameras in the salon where support for the union is strongest and firing another pro-union employee just two weeks ago.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">Whether on the shop floor or the salon floor, workers have a right to stick together, without their employer retaliating against them. <a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Jx04YROJsSTRnXDIGDm7fzDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">If you agree, write to Aveda and Dosha today!</a></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Thanks for all that you do for workers,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Hilary, Liz, Susan, Zoe, Michael, and the American Rights at Work team</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=T8LhLDVETD4j8IHtzuyKiTDSLq1z8rqF" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">www.AmericanRightsatWork.org</a></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="1" face="Arial" style="line-height: normal; ">This message was sent to cgpelayo@hotmail.com. 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color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">View it in your browser.</a></span></td></tr><tr><td><div><img src="http://images/logo-en.png"></div><div style="line-height: 36px; font-size: 30px; color: rgb(161, 165, 148); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; ">Canada</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="550" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(240, 241, 236); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#6D7159" style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 6px; "><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(215, 211, 198); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', verdana; "><strong style="line-height: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">15 March 2012</strong></td><td valign="top" align="right" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(215, 211, 198); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', verdana; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=f0593b4e06&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(236, 237, 230); cursor: pointer; ">Home page</a> · <a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=5493638a0a&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(236, 237, 230); cursor: pointer; ">Become an active member</a> · <a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=dbe1c8df91&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(236, 237, 230); cursor: pointer; ">Donate now</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#E1E0D5" valign="top" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', verdana; padding-top: 8px; "><h4 style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(126, 125, 117); ">Table of contents</h4><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#new_campaigns" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; ">New Campaigns</a><br style="line-height: 15px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#latest_news" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; ">Latest News</a><br style="line-height: 15px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#upcoming_events" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; ">Upcoming Events</a><br style="line-height: 15px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#ongoing_campaigns" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; ">Ongoing Campaigns</a><br style="line-height: 15px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#other_material_recently_added_to_mwr_databases" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; ">Other material recently added to MWR databases</a><br style="line-height: 15px; "><h2 id="ecxnew_campaigns" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(202, 201, 188); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">New Campaigns</h2><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">2009.05.20</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=c22f556235&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Scrap the Live-In Caregiver Program!</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">PWC-BC and Philippine Women Centre of Quebec (PWC-QC)</span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=2589ea78bc&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(110, 114, 89); cursor: pointer; ">All Campaigns</a></div><h2 id="ecxlatest_news" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(202, 201, 188); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Latest News</h2><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">Report/Press release – 2012-03-07</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=7e418aceba&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Filipino migrant group calls for support for families of crash victims</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">Migrante Canada</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">Report/Press release – 2010-09-06</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=d3e24ed2f2&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Increased protection sought for Honduran temporary foreign workers in Canada</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">Harleen Kaur</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">Report/Press release – 2012-03-06</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=01733b8985&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">IOM Resumes Candidate Selection in El Salvador and Honduras for Labour Migration to Canada</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">International Organization for Migration (IOM)</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">Report/Press release – 2011-12-15</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><img alt="Keyresource" src="http://images/keyresource.png?1331787358" style="line-height: 15px; float: left; padding-right: 9px; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=e14e7aa73e&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Migration temporaire, injustices durables: Le cas des travailleuses et travailleurs étrangers « temporaires » au Canada</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">Marie Le Ray</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">Newspaper article – 2012-03-13</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=d4a9577a09&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Discrimination against foreign workers ‘systemic’</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">Marian Scott</span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=e6be2635d6&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(110, 114, 89); cursor: pointer; ">All News</a></div><h2 id="ecxupcoming_events" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(202, 201, 188); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Upcoming Events</h2><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">2012.03.22</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=253a9003fa&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">La situation des travailleurs migrants temporaires : au crible des enjeux de citoyenneté et de justice sociale</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">25 jarry Ouest, montréal</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">2012.04.10</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=542996d7b7&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Journée d’étude sur la discrimination systémique à l’égard des travailleuses et travailleurs migrants</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">INRS – UCS local 2109, Montréal</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">2012.04.11</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://migrantworkersrights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f426de8f7154e37c8c3c15430&id=56f8326cbe&e=83d7435bff" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(186, 34, 37); cursor: pointer; ">Recommandations CDPDJ - Rencontre pour coordination des moyens de pression sur le MICC et le MTQ / meeting to coordinate strategic actions</a></span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">1499 Laurier est, Montréal</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 200); padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(110, 114, 89); ">2012.05.16 to 2012.05.18</span><br><span style="line-height: 17px; 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