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<ol><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><font size="2"><b>Save America's Postal Service</b></font></span></li><li><font color="#333333" size="2"><span style="line-height: 16px; "><b><h3 style="line-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; "><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=vzewYO/FHLQohVxRPUY5U/sbYtB6dk7rzEJ6ZJOTL6bv+/VC+UMwJTdbIpRW3AvTD8T0tIBIGTxbehdQxMBULDuiRYY1A6yl8+wMi4rmpy2VvKgUqhxofUJzhTEwqtoPEEaolfq1FSXRR1PnEFBg+Q==&campaign_id=67&instance_id=14369&segment_id=32102&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Job Growth Isn't Just a Women's Issue</a></h3></b></span></font></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h3 style="line-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><font size="2">Court Decides Employers Must Relieve Employees of All Duty During Meal Periods But Need Not Ensure They Perform No Work</font></strong></h2></h3></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1.1em; "><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; ">CWA Newsletter: 99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Kicks Off Teach-Ins</span>
</font></h1></span></li><li><font color="#2a2a2a" size="2"><span style="line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=vzewYO/FHLQohVxRPUY5U/sbYtB6dk7rzEJ6ZJOTL6bv+/VC+UMwJVBgK+tvSwJ0d9MJSb5fH76F8qktbVrq5winoN7yyJQObUd3TcJ11rsM5QTlBooK30KJ3byaJN2YrnkP0Q54hig+d1mQz2SJqa86eTCwcDx5Wl0w9pObGwdGtTaFQeAOCw==&campaign_id=67&instance_id=14411&segment_id=32163&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief Sends Obama Letter Voicing Concern About Labor Killings in Colombia</a></h2></span></font></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Denounced US Harassmentþ</font></h2></h2></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">Dancing with Corporations: The Tax Dodge Two-Stepþ</font></h2></h2></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">Mexican Union Representatives Share Their Struggle</font></h2></h2></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">Working Longer and Enjoying It Less?</font></h2></h2></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 24px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; "><font size="2">What We Do: A Comic About Women in the Labor Force</font></strong>
</h2></h2><font size="2"> </font></span></li></ol><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dSwEsJW8Uu5Y0mRFt7Gb0PmWoiXn2WBE&url=http://www.afscme.org/" 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 width="626" height="100" border="0" alt="AFSCME" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/banner-officers-basic.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; "></a><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div>Dear Sisters and Brothers,<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=udpCzcujNXE7GW5EdcdnQvmWoiXn2WBE&url=http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/april12_locations.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img width="230" height="430" border="0" align="right" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/USPS%20Callout.gif" 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; "></a><br><br>The U.S. Senate is set to vote as early as this week on legislation that would do more harm than good to the United State Postal Service and their employees— and it’s under the guise of returning the USPS to ‘fiscal solvency’. Rather than providing a business plan to help the Postal Service deliver needed services, Senate Bill 1789 would force a radical downsizing of the USPS that would cost thousands of postal workers their jobs. <br><br>On Thursday, April 12, the National Association of Letter Carriers is holding <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Hw5Dazp4GM2Ev5zC5XyNS/mWoiXn2WBE&url=http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/april12_locations.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b>"Save America’s Postal Service” demonstrations</b></a> outside of Senate offices across the country to urge senators to vote NO on this bill.<br><br><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FJAVm0nRQcSJvIfOkX2S8PmWoiXn2WBE&url=http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/april12_locations.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b>Support your fellow public service employees by joining a “Save America’s Postal Service" demonstration on Thursday, April 12.</b></a> <br><br>While postal reform is needed, the devastating cuts in this legislation are not the right solution. If SB 1789 were to pass it would dismantle the Postal Service by:</div><ul style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 1em; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 1em; clear: none; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: disc; ">Ending six-day mail delivery in two years.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: disc; ">Phasing out door-to-door mail delivery.</li></ul><div>Retirees who receive needed prescriptions by mail and small-business owners who use the mail to advertise are joining veterans groups, local elected officials, union members, faith leaders and progressive allies to fight yet another effort to place the burden of our nation’s economic recovery squarely on the backs of working men and women.<br><br><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xP0Ux/GsLz4tT/IZ301g9PmWoiXn2WBE&url=http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/april12_locations.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b>Join public service workers and find an event occurring near you on Thursday April 12.</b></a><br><br>Together, we can save America’s Postal Service, and protect the millions of working families whose services are in danger.<br><br>In solidarity,</div><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 15px; "><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td width="45%" valign="middle"><img width="200" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="41" border="0" alt="Gerald W. McEntee" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/McEnteeSignature.gif"></td><td width="10%"> </td><td width="45%" valign="middle"><img width="140" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="56" border="0" alt="Lee A. Saunders" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/SaundersSignature.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="45%" valign="top" style="font-size: 12px; "><font size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">GERALD W. McENTEE <br style="line-height: 17px; ">President</font></td><td width="10%"> </td><td width="45%" valign="top" style="font-size: 12px; "><font size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">LEE A. SAUNDERS <br style="line-height: 17px; ">Secretary-Treasurer<br><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/job-growth-isnt-just-a-womens-issue/?nl=us&emc=edit_cn_20120411">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/job-growth-isnt-just-a-womens-issue/?nl=us&emc=edit_cn_20120411</a>
</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+UMwJTdbIpRW3AvTD8T0tIBIGTxbehdQxMBULDuiRYY1A6yl8+wMi4rmpy2VvKgUqhxofUJzhTEwqtoPEEaolfq1FSXRR1PnEFBg+Q==&campaign_id=67&instance_id=14369&segment_id=32102&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Job Growth Isn't Just a Women's Issue</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 THE NEW YORK TIMES</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); ">From our colleagues on the Economix blog: Mitt Romney has noted that women's jobs account for 92.3 percent of the net job loss since President Obama took office. But as a picture of the recession and its aftermath, that number is misleading.</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://www.courts.ca.gov/17489.htm">http://www.courts.ca.gov/17489.htm</a>
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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; width: 671px; "><strong>Court Decides Employers Must Relieve Employees of All Duty During Meal Periods But Need Not Ensure They Perform No Work</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; width: 671px; "></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto; float: left; width: 671px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; "><img src="http://www.courts.ca.gov/images/sc_seal.jpg" alt="california supreme court seal" border="0" width="140" height="140" 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; vertical-align: middle; padding-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; "> <br><span style="font-size: 0.9em; "></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 23px; "><br>San Francisco—Resolving uncertainty over the scope of an employer’s obligations to afford hourly employees meal and rest periods, the California Supreme Court concluded today that an employer’s obligation is to relieve its employees of all duty during meal periods, leaving the employees thereafter at liberty to use the period for whatever purpose they desire, but that an employer need not ensure no work is done. <br><br>On the related question concerning when meal periods must be provided, the court concluded a first meal break generally must fall no later than five hours into an employee’s shift, but an employer need not schedule meal breaks at five hour intervals throughout the shift.<br><br>These questions arose in Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court, S166350, one of a number of meal and rest break class actions pending in the state. After the Brinker trial court certified classes of employees alleging the Brinker Restaurant Corporation had failed to provide meal and rest periods in the number and at the times required by state law, the Court of Appeal reversed and ordered each subclass vacated. The California Supreme Court accepted review and agreed to resolve lingering uncertainty over the nature of rest and meal period obligations and the suitability of such claims for class treatment.<br><br>In a unanimous opinion authored by Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar, the court explained that neither state statutes nor the orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) compel an employer to ensure employees cease all work during meal periods. Instead, under state law an employer must provide its employees an uninterrupted 30-minute duty-free period during which the employee is at liberty to come and go as he or she pleases. Absent a statutorily permissible waiver, a meal break must be afforded after no more than five hours of work, and a second meal period provided after no more than 10 hours of work.<br><br>On the question of rest periods, the court explained that under the IWC’s orders, employees are entitled to 10 minutes of rest for shifts from three and one-half to six hours in length, and to another 10 minutes rest for shifts from six hours to 10 hours in length. Rest periods need not be timed to fall specifically before or after any meal period.<br><br>As to the suitability of rest and meal period claims for class treatment, the court reversed in part, remanded in part, and affirmed in part the Court of Appeal’s rejection of class treatment. With respect to rest period claims, the court concluded plaintiffs had identified a theory of recovery suitable for class treatment. With respect to meal period claims, the Supreme Court remanded to the trial court for reconsideration of class certification in light of its clarification of the substantive law governing meal period claims. Finally, with respect to a third subclass—for claims that Brinker required off-the-clock work—the court affirmed vacation of class certification.<br><br>The principal opinion by Justice Werdegar was signed by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye and Associate Justices Joyce L. Kennard, Marvin R. Baxter, Ming W. Chin, Carol A. Corrigan, and Goodwin Liu.<br><br>Justice Werdegar also issued a separate concurring opinion, joined by Justice Liu, addressing meal period class certification issues confronting the trial court on remand. The concurring opinion discussed considerations relevant to the suitability of the plaintiffs’ meal period claims for certification.<br><br>The court’s opinion in Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court, S166350, is available on the California Courts Web site in two formats: Word (<a href="http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166350.DOC" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(102, 0, 51); display: inline; padding-right: 16px; margin-right: 3px; background-image: url(http://www.courts.ca.gov/images/icon-doc.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166350.DOC</a>) and Acrobat (<a href="http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166350.PDF" target="_newwindow" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(102, 0, 51); display: inline; padding-right: 16px; margin-right: 3px; background-image: url(http://www.courts.ca.gov/images/icon-pdf.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166350.PDF</a>. Hard copies of the opinion are available in the Supreme Court’s Clerk’s Office, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco. Legal briefs filed in the case are <a href="http://www.courts.ca.gov/15713.htm" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(102, 0, 51); ">online</a>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 23px; "><br></p></div></h2></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="100%" 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 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; ">April 12, 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; ">99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Kicks Off Teach-Ins</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; ">Mobilization in High Gear at AT&T</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; ">GE Workers in Iowa Vote to Join CWA</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; ">CWA Mourns Former General Counsel</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; ">Cohen: Build a Framework like Brazil</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story6" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">White House Highlights IUE-CWA President as 'Champion of Change'</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story7" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">T-Mobile Workers, CWA Fight for Jobs, Workers' Rights</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story8" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Apply Now for Morton Bahr Online Scholarship at Empire State College</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story9" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Maryland CWAers Win Victories in Legislative Session</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; ">99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Kicks Off Teach-Ins</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: 250px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="167" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6925324936_768c31e2fd_b.jpg" alt="99%_Sticker" 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; "></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; ">Are you in?</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">This week, 99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power — a large coalition of progressive organizations, from Greenpeace to Occupiers to CWA — began training 100,000 people across the country to tell the story of how America's economy collapsed and the history of non-violent direct action. These teach-ins will give participants the tools to launch their own progressive actions and campaigns for change.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"We totally oppose Citizens United and that Supreme Court decision," CWA President Larry Cohen told <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=1oZOwSba6UK8tSZ%2Br%2B009hJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">The Ed Show</a> on Monday. "We need to get the money out of politics. We need to restore democracy to where every vote counts, not every billionaire counts. So that's the root of the problem and the problem can be fixed. And we support Constitutional amendments that would do that. Again, that democracy is critical to why we're seeing the 99 Percent Spring training now."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Hollywood stars Olivia Wilde, Penn Badgley, and Zoe Kravitz also began promoting the trainings in a <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=81RWfywd4rMHcU6JwVL%2BABJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">new MoveOn.org video</a>. "Let's all make this a Spring to remember," encourages Wilde.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Activists are meeting at 978 gatherings around the country in homes, community centers, houses of worship, campuses, and public spaces. More than 2,000 CWAers are expected to be a part of the 99 Percent Spring training and join in Shareholder Spring actions, including on May 3, the date of the Verizon annual shareholder meeting. To participate in a training this weekend, <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=6fpbVHQ1e/gTDv1sFNStARJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">sign up here</a>.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Cohen told <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=yWs/E/m86TA8tLrJcDp8bxJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">The Huffington Post</a> that the trainings are focusing on direct, non-violent actions — not anger. "We want to take action in a way that inspires a nation rather than be based on anger," he asked. "The anger is understandable. Our goal is to be part of building a coalition of 50 million or more — not 5,000. We're not going to build something that will win primarily on anger."</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; ">Mobilization in High Gear at AT&T</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="194" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/6925325850_6e38a99dc3_b.jpg" alt="Locals 4050 and 4090 - Detroit" 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; ">CWA activists from Locals 4050 and 4090 hold a candlelight vigil outside AT&T's headquarters in Detroit as the contract expired at midnight.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img width="320" height="266" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6925325672_69c19a5409_b.jpg" alt="Local 9510" 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><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">SEIU families join members of CWA Local 9510 at a rally for a fair contract.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img width="320" height="125" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5350/7071403079_b768e8b311_b.jpg" alt="Local 9431" 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><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Members of Local 9431 standing strong for the American Dream at AT&T.</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; ">As AT&T contract negotiations go into overtime, so has mobilization by CWA members.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA members have a lot of creative mobilization actions underway to support their bargaining teams and to stand up for the American Dream of good jobs and good benefits.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In District 9, every Friday has been declared "WTF" (Where's the Fairness) Day. More than 3,000 D4 activists joined a telephone union hall call this week to hear the latest on the fight to hold on to the American Dream. Technologies and Telecommunications members are standing up at call centers, walking through buildings with signs calling for a fair contract and marching in to work together.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In D1, members of Local 1298 are joining with Common Cause, Connecticut Working Families and other advocacy groups to call on corporations, including AT&T, to sever ties with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative lobbying group that finances attacks on bargaining rights, voter rights and other measures in state legislatures harmful to workers and citizens. D9 members also are calling for AT&T to drop its support of ALEC.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">This week, AT&T CWA activists are headed to <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=5rA4arNtsJ4APYEOLmOcLRJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">99 Percent Spring training</a>, and will work with progressive activists from community and other organizations to plan actions that will bring about fair contracts.</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; ">GE Workers in Iowa Vote to Join CWA</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">General Electric workers at an Iowa switchgear plant voted Wednesday on IUE-CWA representation. But the results are still unknown, as the ballots have been impounded due to GE's attempt to pad the bargaining unit.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Last month, the National Labor Relations Board determined the voting unit should include 170 workers from seven departments (materials, fabrication, assembly, quality, facilities, environmental health and safety, and lean manufacturing) at the West Burlington factory. GE contested the decision, arguing that 27 more workers should be included in the balloting, and appealed the board's determination.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">That means justice and union representation are on hold until the NLRB makes a determination. "It's enraging," Cohen said.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Just two years ago, the company threatened to close the plant, but production and maintenance workers agreed to drastic pay cuts to keep it running. Then, as an added incentive to stay, GE received thousands of dollars in financial support from local governments.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Workers want to set up a competitiveness and job growth committee, to work with the company on bringing new products and new jobs to the plant. They also want a health and safety committee to address concerns about working conditions, said Jeff Lacher of CWA.</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; ">CWA Mourns Former General Counsel</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Patrick M. Scanlon, the CWA general counsel who won a $60 million maternity leave settlement on behalf of workers at a former AT&T subsidiary, died on April 4. He was 71.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Scanlon, the third general counsel in the union's history, retired in 2005 after 25 years of service to CWA.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Patrick's roots in CWA go back to our founding days," said CWA President Larry Cohen. "He worked with the Adair brothers, in their firm, then came to CWA as general counsel. He was quiet but insightful, careful but always helpful. He hired brilliant attorneys to work for us and their work lives on today as part of his legacy. He was physically strong whether running or working; he loved his family, his union and life itself."</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: 250px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="330" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5340/6925325978_87ab63042d_b.jpg" alt="Patrick Scanlon" 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; ">CWA General Counsel Pat Scanlon at the 1995 convention, his last before retirement.</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; ">In what Scanlon considered his greatest achievement, CWA brought a class action suit against Western Electric, the manufacturing subsidiary of the old AT&T, in 1991. The company had been requiring pregnant women to take unpaid maternity leave towards the end of their pregnancies; it only gave female employees 30 days credit toward their seniority — while other employees on disability leave received full credit — and offered no employment guarantee when they returned from maternity leave.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">As a result of the $60 million settlement, 13,000 telephone company workers received back pay and seniority credit. At the time, it was the largest cash settlement ever reached by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Scanlon devoted his entire legal career to organized labor and workers' rights. After receiving his law degree from the Stetson College of Law, he immediately dove into labor and employment law, specializing in the representation of unions. He rose to become president of the firm that bore his name — Adair, Scanlon and McHugh.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In 1980, Scanlon was named associate general counsel for CWA District 3 in Atlanta. Shortly after Morton Bahr was elected CWA president in 1985, one of his first appointments was the naming of Scanlon as his general counsel.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"This was new for CWA as for many years we had a law firm act as general counsel," Bahr said. "Pat fulfilled the role brilliantly, from his role as general counsel to the union and legal advisor to the president. I knew I could always rely on him to provide the correct path for us around any legal question we were faced with."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">He advised CWA leaders on the legal conduct of strikes, contract details and grievances and supervised all aspects of CWA arbitration, trying more than 200 cases each year. For a number of years he also served as the CWA convention's parliamentarian.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"He was a dedicated and committed advocate for the cause of working people and an important mentor to many labor lawyers at CWA and around the country," said CWA's current general counsel, Mary K. O'Melveny, who was hired by Scanlon to work at CWA headquarters in 1989. "We are all very saddened by this untimely loss."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In addition to his work at CWA, Scanlon served on the board of directors of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee and the Lawyers Advisory Panel, a committee of general counsels of major AFL-CIO unions. He was also a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and served as co-chair of the American Bar Association Law Section Council's Equal Employment Opportunity and International Labor Law committees.</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; ">Cohen: Build a Framework like Brazil</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="373" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7259/6925326654_4a27dc0b50_b.jpg" alt="Larry Cohen at EPI" 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; ">CWA President Larry Cohen joins worker rights panel at Economic Policy Institute.</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; ">Faced with a nationwide attack on workers' rights and their unions, American workers can learn a lesson from the Brazilians, CWA President Larry Cohen said Wednesday.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"If we don't build a framework like they did in Brazil, I don't think we'll be able to reverse this for decades," said Cohen, speaking on a panel of labor activists at the Economic Policy Institute.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In Brazil 25 years ago, Cohen said, organizers like himself and fellow panelists — including Luis Carlos de Oliveira, vice president of the Metalworkers Union of Jundiai, Brazil — would have been jailed. But today nearly 40 percent of Brazilians belong to a union. The reason — Brazil's Workers Party built a powerful movement that linked together jobs, workers' rights and economic justice. United, workers won the creation of laws that ushered in higher wages, 30 days of paid vacation each year, four months of paid maternity leave and more.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">That movement has enabled Brazil to combat corporate greed and the wealthy's colossal political influence, the panel explained. Take for instance the controversy around worker abuse at Foxconn factories. In China, Apple supplier Foxconn has taken advantage of Chinese workers, forcing them to work overtime in deplorable conditions for little pay. Chinese unions are dominated by Foxconn management. Explosions have killed and injured employees, while the militaristic work environment has driven many to suicide.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">But at Foxconn's plants in Brazil, employees don't work beyond the maximum 44-hour week established by Brazilian law. Their monthly wages start at roughly $580 a month, while their Chinese counterparts earn as little as $246 a month for similar work, according to data compiled by EPI. In Brazil, Foxconn is working with unions to facilitate more hiring to assemble more Apple products, and its Brazilian factory lines haven't seen a single explosion.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Meanwhile, General Electric workers in West Burlington, Iowa, are struggling this week to organize. In just five years, wages in Shanghai will equal those in US cities, since American production workers haven't seen a real wage increase in more than three decades. Cohen called America's trade policy a "sled ride downhill," as many consumers celebrate Apple and ignore the labor environment that has relocated US manufacturing to countries with few workers' rights.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Cohen encouraged the audience to take action into their own hands, starting with attending a <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Dutk8tPFSXW0t1W/FrFxZxJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">99 Percent Spring</a> training. "It's not 'how do we speak to our government,' but 'how do we speak to each other,'" he said.</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="story6" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">White House Highlights IUE-CWA President as 'Champion of Change'</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">IUE-CWA President Jim Clark was honored at the White House as a "Champion of Change" Thursday for his advocacy of energy efficiency opportunities that improve green manufacturing, performance and competitiveness.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"I believe manufacturing is the backbone of our economy and our country needs manufacturing to be strong," Clark said. "That's why as president of IUE-CWA I've made it my mission to bring innovative and progressive programs to our shop floors — programs that make our plants more competitive and more efficient."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Clark was one of eight individuals recognized by the program, which was created as a part of President Barack Obama's Winning the Future initiative. Each week, the White House commends the leaders of different sectors for their work to serve and strengthen their communities.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Cutting waste, reducing energy use and operating more sustainably translates to less pollution and lower utility bills for businesses across the country," said Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "The leaders we've selected as Champions of Change are proving that sustainable practices work for companies' bottom lines, and work for the health of American communities."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">As a member of the Executive Board of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council, Clark steered the creation of a new Green Production Module, which teaches front-line manufacturing workers about environmental practices and regulations related to "green production." The module, launched last year, is the only nationally certified and portable green tech credential.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Within IUE-CWA, Clark has raised awareness among workers about energy efficiency and energy saving opportunities on the job. For instance, an energy efficiency treasure hunt, in which members analyzed energy use in the building systems and production process, cut a dramatic amount of waste. For an average one-time implementation investment of only $34,500, the treasure hunt program saved an average of $97,500 and 779 metric tons of carbon annually, the union said.</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="story7" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">T-Mobile Workers, CWA Fight for Jobs, Workers' Rights</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: 250px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="162" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6925326736_408b808f39_b.jpg" alt="T-Mobile_BringBackOffshoredJobs" 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; "></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; ">T-Mobile workers and CWA supporters are taking a message directly to T-Mobile headquarters next week, delivering more than 100,000 petitions to CEO Philipp Humm calling on the company to bring back quality jobs to the U.S.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">There's still time to make your voice heard. Sign the petition at<a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=SUmuGnDOPWI1taWKtrnJlBJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">http://cwa-union.org/t-mobile</a>.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Union members and other community activists throughout the Seattle area will rally on April 16 in support of T-Mobile workers who want to keep their jobs and want the right to fairly choose union representation.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">T-Mobile USA announced it was closing seven call centers, affecting the jobs of 3,300 U.S. workers, even though the company continues to operate call centers in the Philippines and Honduras employing more than 6,000.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The company also has put other workers on notice that its "restructuring" isn't finished; technicians and other technical support workers are likely next to see their jobs outsourced.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Several T-Mobile workers, members of TU, the joint union established by CWA and ver.di, which represents German T-Mobile workers, are making the trip to T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., to make sure the company gets the message loud and clear.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">T-Mobile also has taken $14.2 million in taxpayer subsidies in four communities where it's now closing operations: Frisco, Tex., $3.7 million; Brownsville, Tex., $5.3 million; Lenexa, Kan., $3.9 million; and Redmond, Ore., $1.3 million.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., outside another call center slated to shut down, workers and community supporters also will rally on April 16.</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="story8" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Apply Now for Morton Bahr Online Scholarship at Empire State College</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">New York's Empire State College is accepting applications for Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarships for the 2012-2013 academic year. The deadline to apply is May 15 and winners will be announced by the end of June for the fall semester.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The scholarship honors CWA President Emeritus Morton Bahr and his lifelong commitment to expanding education and opportunity for working people. The program enables students to study online through Empire State's Center for Distance Learning and earn an associate or bachelors degree.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Union members, their families and domestic partners are eligible to apply for the scholarships, which include undergraduate tuition and fees.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BVMqEzxU0hWcKWS8NElUzxJ0gVGCCsMi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Click here</a> for more information and to download the "Bahr application book," which includes the application and other information.</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="story9" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Maryland CWAers Win Victories in Legislative Session</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="433" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7079/7071402815_96d4202a2b_b.jpg" alt="CWAers in Maryland" 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 seven CWA locals lobby state legislators in Annapolis.</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; ">The 2012 Maryland state legislative session closed this week, and CWA members made some real gains for workers and consumers.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWAers successfully blocked Verizon's attempt to eliminate Public Service Commission overview of a potential sale of Verizon assets. A strong showing of more than 40 CWA members and retirees from seven locals, plus testimony by Paula Vinciguerra, Local 2106, helped ensure that SB 813 didn't make it out of the Senate Finance Committee.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">With CWA support, the Offshoring Disclosure bill was passed by both the state House and Senate. It requires state contractors to disclose any plans to offshore jobs covered by those contracts and to justify why those jobs would be moved. "In the next session, we'll come back to try and put a stop to this practice altogether," said Jimmy Tarlau, assistant to the president for D2-13.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA members and the labor community also fought back and won against another Verizon assault on union members. The Privileged Communications Involving Labor Organizations, SB 797, was passed. It prohibits a labor organization from being compelled to disclose communication or information between a grievant and a union representative unless a criminal proceeding is involved. Verizon tried to block this bill and spent a lot of time fabricating stories about what CWA might know about actions during last year's strike.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The Maryland legislative-political action team did terrific work and is gearing up to take on more campaigns, Tarlau said.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4004/c/11/images/email-divider.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 style="line-height: 13px; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">You have received this message through your subscription to a Communications Workers of America e-mail list. 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</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+UMwJVBgK+tvSwJ0d9MJSb5fH76F8qktbVrq5winoN7yyJQObUd3TcJ11rsM5QTlBooK30KJ3byaJN2YrnkP0Q54hig+d1mQz2SJqa86eTCwcDx5Wl0w9pObGwdGtTaFQeAOCw==&campaign_id=67&instance_id=14411&segment_id=32163&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief Sends Obama Letter Voicing Concern About Labor Killings in Colombia</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); ">With President Obama scheduled to visit Colombia this weekend, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president says that Mr. Obama should not certify that Colombia has done enough to stop the killings of union leaders and supporters there.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></p></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><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: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Denounced US Harassmentþ</h2></div><div><br></div><div><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); ">Repression increasing with the nations of the ALBA taking up the issue of colonialism and Puerto Rico especially Daniel Ortega President of Nicaragua and they use their flunkies like Panama to do the dirty work.<br> </p><div id="ecxAOLMsgPart_1_0bc9de1c-d49c-4ecc-b6c3-acb805921e57" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div style="line-height: 20px; font-family: 'courier\d\anew', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new\d\ayork', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br>Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Denounced US Harassment<br><br>San Juan, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) The US government maintains its <br>persecution against leaders of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico <br>beyond its borders, leader of the organization Francisco Torres <br>denounced on Monday.<br><br>Torres told Prensa Latina how after attending the 16th Seminar of <br>the Labor Party of Mexico in Mexico City he was detained upon arriving <br>in Panama, at the Tocumen international airport, by a US agent <br>following orders from a US officer.<br><br>"This is part of the escalation of pressure against the Puerto Rican <br>pro-independence movement, as that persecution is not limited to Puerto <br>Rico and the United States, but it also includes other countries like <br>Panama," he said.<br><br>Torres said that after being interrogated in the Panamanian airport, <br>he wanted to know the reasons why he was requested his passport even <br>though he had no intention to leave the terminal, and the US agent <br>answered that "because you are heading for my country."<br><br>He said that when he called the National Hostosiano Independence <br>Movement (MINH), Julio Muriente, who was part of the Puerto Rican <br>delegation in Mexico, the agents gave him his papers back and told him <br>he was able to go on.<br><br>However, upon arrival in Puerto Rico he was again stopped by federal <br>agents, who searched him and his belongings, photocopied all his <br>papers, including his credit cards, without a warrant.<br><br>"The persecution against the Puerto Rican pro-independence movement in <br>general is increasing, and it is extended to third countries," argued <br>Torres, who added that this harassment against him starts from the <br>moment he has the air ticket in his hands.<br><br>Torres said the United States is openly violating the civil and human <br>rights of Puerto Ricans who struggle to break the chains of colonialism <br>imposed by them since 1898.<br><br>Secretary of the Nationalist Party Linda Alonso Lebron, on a <br>wheelchair due to a leg bone fractured during her stay in Mexico, was <br>also stopped and searched during that trip.<br><br>Torres presented a letter to the Panama Consulate in San Juan <br>demanding an explanation for such a conduct against him.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><table align="center" width="626" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="line-height: 17px; 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"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b>April 11, 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=QcX1YgLNb0F5koXz4Qc3w8qRaBrUZYki" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" alt="Union Plus" title="Union Plus" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/unionplus.jpg" 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; "></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=whyCB7ZGMUQrvGp4LujC0W5HYXDQf3wu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Union Plus has two new programs to help union members save on their next car or truck purchase and on a new smartphone</font></a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">A new report shows that most of the 30 Fortune 500 companies that paid no federal income tax fro</span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">m 2008 through 2010 were able to keep up their tax dodge two-step in 2011. Those nimble firms include Verizon, General Electric, Boeing, </span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Wells Fargo, Tenet Healthcare and more. 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Montes de Oca represented the Mexican Union for Electricians, while Martinez represented Section 65 of the Miners Union from Cananea, Sonora.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“The reason why we are here is to show the people what is succeeding in our country and how we are moving,” said Martinez who is also the secretary of labor for the Miners Union.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Francisco Herrera opened up the event with songs that he called, “songs of the movement.” Herrera played the well known, “De Colores” and a couple of his self-composed songs.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“We are joined together historically and economically,” said Fred Hirsh, member of the Executive Board of Plumbers and Fitters. “ It is important that we be a part of their struggle as they are a part of ours.”</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In Cananea, Sonora, only 25 miles south of the Arizona border, the copper miners have been on strike since July 30th 2007.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Workers started the strike because they had problems with the safety and security of the mine, social security and the contract with the company. Since its inception, the strike has been declared illegal three times by the Mexican federal government.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Currently, the union leader, Napoleon Gomez Urritia, is in exile in Canada. Union members are currently occupying the capitol city in Sonora in an attempt to schedule a meeting with the governor.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“The fight never stops for a union, we are always fighting,” said Martinez of the future plans for the union. “What we want is to gain better opportunities for the workers, for our people, for our family.”</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Mexican Union for Electricians(SME) has a long history of struggle. Most recently, 44,000 workers were fired in an attempt to privatize the industry. SME plans to continue its strike by participating in the political process. On the first of July, there will be elections for the president of the republic.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“The actual economic crisis on a world level has an exit, and the point of view of the government is that exit is to place the weight of the crisis on the backs of the workers,” said Montes de Oca. “ We have to have a common front. We have to relate our experiences and help motivate unions here and promote solidarity.”</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Audience members both young and old attended the event.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">San Jose State Student and M.E.CH.A member, Jose Francisco Romero Elicia, felt inspired by the speakers. “They are demonstrating the way that we can win the obligarchy in the middle of a hard fight,” said Elicia.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“I feel like we’re kind of disconnected sometimes because we do live in this country. I feel like I should know more, “ said Maura Villanueva, a De Anza College student and organizer for Californians for Justice. Villaneuva said the speakers motivated her to take action. “It gets you excited and energized. It makes you want to take action and be in solidarity with this movement.”</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In closing, the audience once again sent the speakers off with a unity clap to show solidarity.</span><br style="line-height: 31px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“Solidarity has got to be a mutual path toward confronting our own realities and solving our own situations with the disparities in this economy,” said Hirsh. “If we don’t do it, we are bound to become part of a privatized economy. That will deprive us of the things that we’re used to as part of what we once called the American dream. Anyone who still thinks the American Dream still exists is probably still sleeping.”</span></font>
</div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></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); ">Working Longer and Enjoying It Less?<br>By Tom Suhrbur<br>Talking Union<br>April 9, 2012<br><a href="http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/working-" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/working-</a><br>longer-and-enjoying-it-less/<br><br>"Eight hours of work, eight hours of rest and eight<br>hours to do what we think best"<br>Eight-Hour Day Slogan (circa 1890)<br><br>In the 19th century, the workweek was 60 to 72 hours<br>Monday through Saturday with Sunday off. The fight<br>for the eight-hour day has been a rallying call for<br>the working class since the early day of the union<br>movement. An American Federation of Labor pamphlet<br>in 1899 stated: "Rest cultivates, drudgery brutalizes."<br><br>While a shorter workday was viewed as a cure for<br>unemployment, low wages and a host of social ills,<br>it also meant more leisure time to enjoy life. It<br>meant more time for one's family. Shorter hours would<br>also provide workers time for personal development to<br>pursue their talents in art, music and other endeavors.<br><br>After a century of struggle, the eight-hour day and<br>40 hour week was generally realized for workers in<br>1938 with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act<br>(FLSA). This was one of the greatest achievements of<br>the labor movement. Even though the FLSA that provided<br>40 hour week and overtime pay is still intact today,<br>the intent of the law has been seriously undermined<br>over the last 30 years.<br><br>The loss of millions of manufacturing jobs to low wage<br>nations as a result of free trade, the aggressive<br>campaign against unions and the ever increasing<br>reliance on part-time and temporary employment have<br>undermined wages in the U.S. The declining standard of<br>living of the working families has forced many workers<br>to take second and even third jobs to make ends meet.<br>In effect, many wage earners are working more than the<br>standard eight-hour day, 40 hour week.<br><br>Are the days gone when a factory worker could support<br>seven children on one income, own a home, feed and<br>cloth the family, own a car, take the family on a<br>vacation each year, have full-paid family health<br>insurance and a decent retirement? My father did!<br>But part-time and full-time temporary jobs are now<br>19.3% of the U.S. employment.<br><br>Many wage earners cannot even find full-time employment<br>today. Instead, they are trying to eke a living by<br>working just part-time and temporary full-time jobs.<br>This is especially true in higher education.<br>Unemployment in December was 8.5% but "under<br>employment" is not reported as being unemployed.<br><br>Millions of other unemployed workers have stopped<br>searching for jobs. They too are not reported in the<br>8.5% rate. A family member of mine is under employed.<br>He has been working numerous temporary full-time and<br>part-time jobs since 2009 making about $25,000<br>annually. He has an MS in Natural Sciences. He puts in<br>about 50 to 60 hours per week. One of his jobs for the<br>past two years is full-time but only for nine months<br>with no health insurance, sick leave or other benefits.<br>He does substitute teaching. He works Saturday as a<br>docent at a county conservation district and tutors in<br>the evenings at a private tutoring company. He cannot<br>find a full-time job but is not unemployed.<br><br>Besides low wages, a major incentive for hiring<br>part-time and temporary workers is the high cost of<br>private health insurance. All of the developed nations<br>have national health care systems that shift the cost<br>of health care from private employers to the general<br>public through taxation.<br><br>In the U.S., individual employers must purchase health<br>insurance for themselves and, if they choose, for their<br>employees. Our private for profit health care system is<br>the costliest in the world in terms its share of the<br>gross national product. Yet, more than 50 million<br>Americans have no health insurance. Decent health<br>insurance coverage cost at least $10,000 for an<br>individual and much more for family coverage.<br>Many employers have opted out of full-time employment<br>for this reason alone.<br><br>Tom Suhrbur recently retired after 26 years as a<br>union organizer for the Illinois Education Association.<br>He is currently<br>the Vice-President of the Illinois Labor History<br>Society. This post originally appeared in the Chicago<br>DSA newletter New Ground.<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></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/8419-what-we-do-a-comic-about-women-in-the-labor-force">http://truth-out.org/news/item/8419-what-we-do-a-comic-about-women-in-the-labor-force</a>
</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; ">What We Do: A Comic About Women in the Labor Force</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); ">Anne Elizabeth Moore and Lauren Weinstein, Truthout: "The last installment of Ladydrawers looked at gendered discrepancies in media hiring practices ... and how the gender of the labor pool might affect media content. In this piece, we look at what might be missing from the media - in other words, at the issues disproportionately affecting women that somehow get missed in a male-dominated media environment. Welcome to 'What We Do,' the first of two strips with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Lauren Weinstein - and watch for 'What We Look Like' next month." </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=WsVFBvfVuCvXvlh4kDYRz3j%2BdwweV1Mm" 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>
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