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<br>Information:
<br>USW: Rob Witherell, rwitherell@usw.org
<br>OEOC: Jim Anderson, jander77@kent.edu
<br>Mondragon International USA: Michael Peck, mpeck@mapagroup.net
<br><br>Pittsburgh (March 26, 2012) – Leo W. Gerard, International President <br>of the United Steelworkers (USW), together with representatives from <br>Mondragon International, S.A., the global worker industrial cooperative <br>leader, and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), announced today <br>that a new “union co-op” model template is available for organizations <br>wanting to combine worker equity with a progressive collective bargaining <br>process. This template was created as follow up to the original USW-<br>Mondragon framework agreement launched in October 2009 to collaborate <br>in establishing Mondragon-like industrial manufacturing cooperatives <br>that adopt collective bargaining principles to the Mondragon worker <br>ownership model of “one worker, one vote” within the United States <br>and Canada.<br><br>Titled “Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Communities: The Union Co-op <br>Model”, this new public domain template (available at www.usw.coop <br>and www.union.coop) offers a road-map primer for competitive and <br>equitable employment creation based on fifty-five years of Mondragon <br>principles put into marketplace practice. Aimed at creating an economy <br>that can work for everyone who works, the union co-op model shows how <br>“doing well by doing good” reflects core American values of self-reliance, <br>community solidarity, and ownership as an ineluctable component of the <br>American dream based on competitive business practices. The underlying <br>union co-op principle is that this model will result in improved, self-<br>reinforcing, virtuous cycle worker and customer satisfaction through <br>higher accountability, productivity, and efficiency because all workers <br>will have an equal equity stake in the company, will share common goals, <br>and adhere to common principles and practices that broaden the definition <br>of value beyond the “bottom line”. Additionally, union co-ops through <br>this model are structured to benefit from lower overhead costs while <br>potentially accessing higher impact union benefit plans, such as <br>healthcare and pensions. Simply put, union co-ops are a better way <br>of doing business.<br><br>
“To survive the boom and bust, bubble-driven economic cycles fueled by <br>Wall Street, we must look for new ways to create and sustain good jobs <br>on Main Street,” urged Leo Gerard, USW International President. “This <br>union co-op model, created through our partnership with Mondragon and <br>with the assistance of the OEOC, provides a viable road map on how we <br>might begin fielding these sustainable jobs. Worker-ownership can <br>provide the opportunity to figure out collective alternatives to layoffs, <br>bankruptcies, and closings in hard times, rather than having the rug <br>pulled right out from under struggling communities to the benefit of a <br>few at the expense of the many”.<br><br>Josu Ugarte, President of Mondragon International, added: “Mondragon <br>is very pleased to support this historic collaboration - combining the <br>world’s largest industrial worker cooperative with one of the world’s <br>most progressive and forward-thinking manufacturing unions - to work <br>together so that our combined know-how and complimentary visions can <br>transform manufacturing practices in North America within one hybrid <br>union co-op model based on Mondragon principles and practices that we <br>can believe in - because they work.”<br><br>
Building upon this union co-op model, as well as the OEOC’s work with <br>the Cleveland Foundation through the Evergreen Cooperatives platform <br>(also designed and based on the Mondragon principles), exciting new <br>projects in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are well underway, with specific <br>announcements anticipated in the next several months. Additional <br>projects based on the union co-op concept have begun or have been <br>proposed in multiple locations from coast-to-coast. Pittsburgh intends <br>to announce its first union-coop project sometime in the late May, <br>early June 2012 timeframe.<br><br>OEOC Director, Bill McIntyre stated: “Statistics emerging from the <br>Great Recession demonstrate that employee-owners were much less likely <br>to have been laid off and much less likely to be looking for a new job <br>than were non-employee-owners. By extension, employee-owned companies <br>have more stable, loyal and experienced workforces which translate <br>into real cost-saving, productivity and quality advantages in the <br>marketplace. In the aggregate, employee-owned companies are more <br>successful than comparable non-employee-owned companies, and the <br>beauty of employee ownership is that success is shared by all <br>employees and the wealth created has a positive impact on the <br>communities in which they live.”<br><br>The USW-Mondragon union co-op model seeks to build on the foundation <br>set by the ten Basic Principles that Mondragon co-operatives have put <br>into practice during the past fifty-five plus years:
<br><br>Open Admission
:<br>The co-op will not discriminate in the admission of new worker-owners, <br>except that the worker-owner must accept the Basic Principles and be <br>capable of performing the work required.<br><br>
Democratic Organization:<br>
The principle of “one worker, one vote” shall prevail throughout <br>the co-op, including the annual General Assembly and the election <br>of the Board of Directors. Every worker-owner owns an equal share <br>and has an equal vote through “one class” ownership.
<br><br>Sovereignty of Labor:<br>
Labor is the main factor for transforming nature, society and human <br>beings themselves. As a result, Labor is granted full sovereignty <br>in the organization of the co-operative enterprise, the wealth <br>created is distributed in terms of the labor provided and there <br>is a firm commitment to the creation of new jobs.
<br><br>Instrumental and Subordinate Nature of Capital
:<br>People are prioritized over profits. Providing and creating jobs <br>are prioritized over increasing the marginal return on investments. <br>As President Abraham Lincoln wrote in his first State of the Union <br>address in 1861: “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. <br>Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed <br>if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, <br>and deserves much the higher consideration.<br><br>Participation in Management:<br>
“Ownership” must become more than just the value of a share. <br>Workers must also undertake the responsibilities of ownership in <br>the co-op by their participation in the management of the co-op, <br>ensuring that the co-op remains accountable to its worker-owners.
<br><br>Wage Solidarity:<br>
Wage solidarity means there is less disparity among workers and <br>the communities in which they live, reinforcing the equality and <br>quality of ownership. In most cases, the highest paid worker in <br>the Mondragon co-operatives makes no more than 5 to 7 times the <br>lowest paid worker.<br><br>
Inter-Cooperation:<br>
Just as workers benefit from working cooperatively in a business, <br>so too can co-ops benefit from working cooperatively with other <br>co-ops. Such an interdependent system of co-ops allows each co-op <br>to create and share common resources such as financing, research <br>and development, and training, as well as to support each other <br>through down turns in the markets or the economy.
<br><br>Social Transformation:<br>
A key part of the co-op’s mission is to support and invest in <br>their communities by creating jobs, funding development projects, <br>supporting education, and providing opportunity.
<br><br>Universality:<br>
The co-op supports all efforts to promote workplace democracy <br>and promotes the co-operative model and culture as a means to <br>achieve social and economic justice.
<br><br>Education:<br>
Education is valued as “the key to the development and progress <br>of a people” and is critical to “democratize power”, as quoted <br>from Mondragon’s founder, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta. <br>Education and lifelong learning provide the tools for worker-<br>owners to adapt and sustain the cooperative.
<br><br>Creating sustainable jobs and sustainable communities requires <br>broadening the definition of societal value beyond “the bottom <br>line” and moving to a more stakeholder-centric economy. Democratic <br>worker ownership principles combined with social and economic <br>justice differentiate the union co-op model from traditional <br>business models, making the union co-op option sustainable and <br>giving it a competitive edge over the long term as worker-owners <br>get to benefit more fully from their hard work and own their <br>own decision-making process and all the fruits of their labors.
<br><br>The full text of the union co-op model is available at <br>www.usw.coop or www.union.coop
<br><br>About the USW: The USW is North America’s largest industrial <br>union representing 1.2 million active and retired members in a <br>diverse range of industries.(www.usw.org)
<br><br>About Mondragon: The Mondragon mission is to produce and sell <br>goods, and provide services and distribution using democratic <br>methods in its organizational structure and distributing the <br>assets generated for the benefit of its members and the community <br>as a measure of solidarity. Mondragon began its activities in <br>1956 in the Basque town of Mondragon by a rural village priest <br>with a transformative vision who believed in the values of worker <br>collaboration and working hard to reach for and realize the <br>common good. Today, with approximately 850,000 cooperative <br>members in over 260 cooperative enterprises present in more <br>than forty countries; Mondragon is committed to the creation <br>of greater social wealth through customer satisfaction, job <br>creation, technological and business development, continuous <br>improvement, the promotion of education, and respect for the <br>environment. In 2011, Mondragon reached annual sales of more <br>than twenty-four billion dollars with its own cooperative <br>university, cooperative bank, and cooperative social security <br>mutual and is ranked as the top Basque business group, the <br>seventh largest in Spain, and the world’s largest industrial <br>workers cooperative. (www.mondragon-corporation.com)
<br><br>About the OEOC: The Ohio Employee Ownership Center is an outreach <br>center of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. It was founded <br>in 1987 by John Logue who worked tirelessly to bring the successful <br>Mondragon business practices and employee ownership structure <br>and governance to the United States. Since Dr. Logue’s untimely <br>death in 2009, the OEOC’s staff of eleven has continued to carry <br>out its mission to promote employee ownership through employee <br>stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and worker-owned cooperatives <br>in order to broaden capital ownership, deepen employee <br>participation, retain jobs locally, and increase living <br>standards for working families and their communities. <br>(www.oeockent.org)<br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>PortsideLabor aims to provide material of interest to<br>people on the left that will help them to interpret the<br>world and to change it.</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><div class="ClearBoth" style="line-height: 15px; clear: both; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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</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; ">The 1 Percent's Doctrine for the 99 Percent</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); ">Mark Ames, Consortium News: "Slavery is often portrayed by revisionist historians as somehow antithetical to market capitalism; in reality, slavery was a winning portfolio investment, the very incarnation of just how evil 'free-market' capitalism can be. What makes this graph so disturbing for us in 2012 is what it suggests about today's '1 percent' - and how they view the rest of us." </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#cc0000" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; "><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7pwFbOsgdbEj5f78w4/Bu6NOJcvWZIxV" 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); ">Read the Article</a></font>
</div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff"><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; "><img src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/banner-afl-cio-new-700-take-action.jpg" alt=""></p><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" border="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><table align="right" width="231" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><table align="right" width="215" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#333333" border="1" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><table align="right" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#cc0000"><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><span style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 18px; "><font color="white" style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 23px; font-weight: bold; ">URGENT</strong></font></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=lisifKZ6yYViGaGdM8RJ2hdGe8I4gHXu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/bridge_silhouette_blue_sign.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></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">If Speaker John Boehner and his obstructionist friends in the House of Representatives don’t pass the Senate’s bipartisan surface transportation bill by March 31, thousands of construction and transportation workers—who already have an unemployment rate of 17 percent—will be out of work.<br><br><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=AMwrHvBcKy%2B%2BvzrTAL47J/zGvT9Coi0v" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Demand a bipartisan surface transportation bill now!</b></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><br><b style="font-weight: bold; "><br>It’s staggering.</b> More than 17 percent of construction trades workers are looking for jobs. (And in some areas of the country, it’s 20 percent, 30 percent or more.)<br><br>Meanwhile, 68,842 American bridges are deficient. More than 282 million vehicles cross those bridges every day. And many public transit systems have serious problems and are in need of critical upgrades.<br><br><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Workers in the construction and transportation sectors urgently need jobs.</b> And there’s tons of work to be done to fix our crumbling infrastructure and ensure public safety. But obstructionists in the House of Representatives—led by House Speaker John Boehner—are refusing to pass the Senate’s bipartisan surface transportation bill.<br><br><b style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=jTZdPpIcRQuqJw47ZpfhJfzGvT9Coi0v" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Tell House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership: Pass the Senate’s bipartisan surface transportation bill now</a>.</b><br><br><b style="font-weight: bold; ">The Senate already has done its job.</b> A supermajority—74 out of 100 senators—came together to pass a bipartisan surface transportation bill. This two-year, $109 billion funding bill will support millions of jobs and help build and maintain safe and strong highways, roads, bridges and transit systems.<br><br><b style="font-weight: bold; ">But Speaker Boehner and other House GOP leaders are holding jobs and public safety hostage while they push an extreme, partisan agenda.</b> Their proposed legislation <b style="font-weight: bold; ">guts</b> transit funding,<b style="font-weight: bold; ">privatizes</b> public-sector work to reward campaign donors, <b style="font-weight: bold; ">kills</b> thousands of jobs and <b style="font-weight: bold; ">raids</b> the pensions of federal workers.<br><br>Although the economy is slowly getting better, construction and transportation workers cannot afford to go without work while House Republican leaders engage in power grabs.<br><br><b style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=bJ51ABtvEo5UFVOOqA1Jb/zGvT9Coi0v" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Tell Speaker Boehner and GOP obstructionists: Stop holding jobs and public safety hostage—pass the Senate’s bipartisan surface transportation bill immediately</a>.</b><br><br>Thanks for all the work you do.<br><br>In Solidarity,<br><br>Manny Herrmann<br>Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO</p></td></tr><tr><td><hr><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; 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=I9qLGZYgMYrSEmPRInGZj/zGvT9Coi0v" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">www.aflcio.org</b></a>.</p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/154691/3_ways_women_workers_are_fighting_discrimination,_wage_theft,_and_abuse_on_the_job/?akid=8470.16102.OR0ykL&rd=1&t=3">http://www.alternet.org/labor/154691/3_ways_women_workers_are_fighting_discrimination,_wage_theft,_and_abuse_on_the_job/?akid=8470.16102.OR0ykL&rd=1&t=3</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17283?akid=8470.16102.OR0ykL&t=2" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">3 Ways Women Workers are Fighting Discrimination, Wage Theft, and Abuse on the Job</a></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); ">Women workers are attacking low pay and bias from many angles, assailing wage laws that exclude them, suing over outright discrimination, and trying to organize unions. <a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17283?akid=8470.16102.OR0ykL&t=3" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><span style="color: rgb(219, 73, 0); ">Read more</span> <img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/newsletter/more_newsandviews.gif" alt="" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; top: 3px; "></a></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); ">By Jenny Brown | Labor Notes</div></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); "><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td><table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=3vP3nvVt8dR6tG%2Bei2zSltAtH9OjuWPR" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/aflcionowblog_700x100.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><tr><td><table align="left" width="700" cellpadding="13" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><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 26, 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=i0hqMl2MGyRR5cTH2MEgxdAtH9OjuWPR" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/21/images/Van-Jones-Offers.png" title="Van Jones" alt="Van Jones" 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=aIdOjQ59%2BinSdfR0kXxFttAtH9OjuWPR" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">In his new book “Rebuild the Dream,” Van Jones maps out how to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream and the American Dream into reality</font></a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">With pressure from the tea party wing of his caucus, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) refuses to bring up the bipartisan Senate-passed highway bill, which would create or save nearly 3 million jobs and help build and maintain the nation’s highways, roads, bridges and transit systems. 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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=qMdGIynl/PcPh7FQQ8zI/NAtH9OjuWPR" 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></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/154601/if_we_let_health_care_workers_lose_their_jobs_and_homes%2C_who%27s_left_to_care_for_us_?akid=8469.16102.QL70AB&rd=1&t=13">http://www.alternet.org/story/154601/if_we_let_health_care_workers_lose_their_jobs_and_homes%2C_who%27s_left_to_care_for_us_?akid=8469.16102.QL70AB&rd=1&t=13</a>
</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); width: 415px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17252?akid=8469.16102.QL70AB&t=11" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/blogteaser_uhcpicket2.jpg_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" align="left" border="0" 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><td><span style="color: white; ">-</span></td><td valign="top"><p class="ecxheadline3" style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17252?akid=8469.16102.QL70AB&t=12" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Faced with cuts in programs and stripped of their bargaining rights, home care workers are trying to maintain the activist vigor of their scrappy past. <a class="ecxreadmore" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17252?akid=8469.16102.QL70AB&t=13" 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 Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein / Dissent Magazine</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><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/154595/how_ronald_reagan_broke_the_air_traffic_controllers_union--and_why_that_fight_still_matters?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&rd=1&t=8">http://www.alternet.org/story/154595/how_ronald_reagan_broke_the_air_traffic_controllers_union--and_why_that_fight_still_matters?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&rd=1&t=8</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17263?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=7" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyteaser_reagan_1258679622.jpg_150x107" alt="" width="150" height="107" border="0" 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><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p class="ecxheadline2" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17263?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=8" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">How Ronald Reagan Broke the Air Traffic Controllers Union--And Why That Fight Still Matters</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">The PATCO strike has become the pivotal event in almost everyone’s understanding of the massive realignment of class power in the United States in the last few decades. <a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17263?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=9" class="ecxreadmore" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(202, 133, 0); 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: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="2" color="#4D4D4D" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; ">Jefferson Cowie / Dissent Magazine</i></font></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="2" color="#4D4D4D" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; "><br></i></font></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/154688/ge_unleashes_propaganda_campaign_to_hide_its_tiny_tax_burden_and_mass_layoffs?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&rd=1&t=25">http://www.alternet.org/story/154688/ge_unleashes_propaganda_campaign_to_hide_its_tiny_tax_burden_and_mass_layoffs?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&rd=1&t=25</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><table width="415px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17267?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=23" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1332699718_screenshot20120325at2.21.09pm.png_640x429_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" border="0" align="left" 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><td><font color="white" style="line-height: normal; ">-</font></td><td valign="top"><p class="ecxheadline3" style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17267?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=24" target="_blank" style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">GE Unleashes Propaganda Campaign To Hide Its Tiny Tax Burden and Mass Layoffs</a></font></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><font style="line-height: normal; ">GE paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over the last ten years, while slashing its US workforce by 32,000 jobs. But its new ad campaign aims to whitewash all that.<a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17267?akid=8466.16102.hGbAzB&t=25" class="ecxreadmore" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(202, 133, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">READ MORE</b></a></font></p><font style="line-height: normal; "><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); "><font style="line-height: normal; ">By Roger Bybee / In These Times</font></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); "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br></font></p></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div> </div><br><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="2">Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. section 107..<br></font><a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html</font></a></font></div>
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