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<div><ol><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">Madison, MI, Teachers Sue to Halt Pay Cut</span> </b></font></li><li><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><b>George Schmidt review of the book and its relation to the potential Chicago school workers' strike </b></font></pre></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">Student Loan Debt Over One Trillion Dollars, the next bubble</span> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">San Diego Teachers Protest More than a Thousand Pink Slips</span> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">Detroit Issues 4100 Teacher Layoff Slips...Proud DFT does....nothing</span> </b></font></li><li><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><b>Pontiac School System Evaporates-quisling union offers unemployment counseling </b></font></pre></li><li><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><b>Unionites Endorse Airline Merger, and Job Losses, as Big Fish Eat Little </b></font></pre></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18263?akid=8631.16102.OGf_w5&t=9" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Restaurant Workers Demand Equal Pay, Appealing to Restaurant Lobbyists and Congress</a> </b></font></li><li><h3 style="line-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3"><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgGX7/0GguaqT4S6hI/IXOKfuCGwO8UQh/FL57nnaFhaiPmOaBi2uNmdRNatQ4gYasZPsEgYeaciM3mwbKoyVCByXbTa5Z3kNL2evoMfC+cfXOCrAMkSGz7YmvXBW17bTVbtXFkIQQd5afepSookJLBg==&campaign_id=129&instance_id=14659&segment_id=32551&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; cursor: pointer; ">Post Offices Face Hurdles in Efforts to Diversify</a> </font><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></h3></li></ol><div><br></div></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); "><b>Madison, MI, Teachers Sue to Halt Pay Cut</b> </pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Teachers in the Madison District Public Schools plan to file suit today against the district<br>for imposing retroactive 10 percent pay cuts that take effect today. <br>Bobby Robinson, a representative for the Madison Education<br>Association, said the union particularly objects to provisions that<br>make the pay cut retroactive to September 2011. An unfair labor<br>practices suit and injunction request to stop the cut is expected in<br>Oakland County Circuit Court. <br>"The 10 percent pay cut is one thing, but the retroactive part is<br>against the law," Robinson said.<br> <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120420/SCHOOLS/204200364/1026/schools/Madison-teachers-sue-pay-fight" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120420/SCHOOLS/204200364/1026/schools/Madison-teachers-sue-pay-fight</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">George Schmidt review of the book and its relation to the potential<br>Chicago school workers' strike <br><a href="http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3202§ion=Article" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3202§ion=Article</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Student Loan Debt Over One Trillion Dollars, the next bubble</b> </pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The growing student loan debt has led to concerns that it could harm the<br>economy, especially since federally backed student loans can't be<br>discharged through bankruptcy. Recent reports show that student loans<br>are on track this year to exceed $1 trillion — more than credit and<br>auto loans. Meanwhile, default rates have climbed. <br>"Student debt has (been) growing for some time," said Lauren Asher,<br>president of the Institute for College Access & Success, an Oakland,<br>Calif., policy organization that runs the Project on Student Debt.<br>"College costs have continued to outpace both family incomes and<br>available grant aid so students and families are increasingly turning<br>to loans to fill that gap." <br>The student loan burden comes as cash-strapped states, including<br>Michigan, continue to scale back support to public universities,<br>leading schools to hike tuition, which means more students borrow more<br>money to cover costs. Last week, Central Michigan University became<br>the first of the state's public universities to announce a tuition<br>increase for the next school year. Others are expected to follow in<br>coming weeks.<br> <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120417/SCHOOLS/204170370/1026/schools/Students-amass-mountain-debt-default-rates-continue-climb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120417/SCHOOLS/204170370/1026/schools/Students-amass-mountain-debt-default-rates-continue-climb</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>San Diego Teachers Protest More than a Thousand Pink Slips</b></pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">—Hundreds of teachers turned their classrooms over to substitutes<br>Wednesday to contest pink slips — or simply protest the San Diego<br>school district’s massive proposed personnel cuts — at hearings<br>that give educators a last-ditch effort to save their jobs. <br>Many showed up in red union T-shirts and carried picket signs. Some<br>brought stacks of papers to grade while they waited through the<br>tedious proceedings. A few even arrived with babies, whose pediatric<br>health care could be cut along with their parents’ jobs. <br>The San Diego Unified School District issued tentative layoff notices<br>to 1,666 teachers — including 20 percent of the elementary teaching<br>force — last month to cope with the state’s fiscal crisis and help<br>offset a projected $122 million deficit in next year’s $1.1 billion<br>budget.<br> <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/18/teachers-appeal-pink-slips/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/18/teachers-appeal-pink-slips/</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Detroit Issues 4100 Teacher Layoff Slips...Proud DFT does....nothing</b></pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br>At least 4,100 Detroit Public Schools teachers received layoff<br>noticesthis week and were told they can reapply for their jobs next<br>month. <br>Keith Johnson, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers,<br>confirmed Thursday the notices were sent by the district this week.<br>The layoffs are effective Aug. 24, just days before the start of the<br>2012-13 school year, and went to all teachers in the district.<br>Nonteaching positions were not affected. <br> <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120413/SCHOOLS/204130364/1026/schools/DPS-teachers-get-layoff-slips" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120413/SCHOOLS/204130364/1026/schools/DPS-teachers-get-layoff-slips</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Pontiac School System Evaporates-quisling union offers unemployment<br>counseling</b> </pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Van Fleet was among 45 teachers laid off in the Pontiac<br>School District to help eliminate a $24 million deficit. Teachers at<br>Owen Elementary knew about the layoffs, but the names of the five to<br>be laid off at their school were announced Wednesday. During a press<br>conference in front of the school Friday afternoon, tears flowed from<br>teachers and students as they embraced and said goodbye to each other.<br>Some teachers and their colleagues held boxes to help the laid-off<br>teachers pack their belongings. The cuts also include 27 school<br>administrators, seven secretaries, six support personnel and 12<br>non-union members. The layoffs come 45 days before the end of the<br>school year. <br>Pontiac Education Association President Aimee McKeever said she will<br>meet with the laid-off teachers Monday to review unemployment and<br>medical coverage issues. <br>"The district is saying there's no chance of recalls," she said. "They<br>claim at least 500 students will leave the district, but even more<br>will leave now that classrooms will be so overcrowded," she said.<br>"Because the district mismanaged funds and allowed people to steal<br>from us, they're putting that burden on the backs of teachers and<br>making the community, the teachers and the students suffer." <br> <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120414/SCHOOLS/204140349/1026/schools/Pontiac-teachers-exit-emotional" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120414/SCHOOLS/204140349/1026/schools/Pontiac-teachers-exit-emotional</a></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><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Unionites Endorse Airline Merger, and Job Losses, as Big Fish Eat<br>Little</b> </pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">US Airways moved a step closer to merging with bankrupt<br>American Airlines Friday when three key unions announced their<br>support. <br>If the merger goes forward, the US Airways brand would go the way of<br>Pan Am, TWA and Eastern Airlines, consigned to history as the merged<br>carrier flies under the American banner. ...As with most mergers,<br>jobs would be lost. In this case, analysts said, most of those<br>affected would be airplane mechanics. Bound by union agreements,<br>American has maintained a cadre of in-house mechanics in an era when<br>other airlines have contracted out that work.<br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/unions-back-american-us-airways-merger/2012/04/20/gIQAfrPXWT_story.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/unions-back-american-us-airways-merger/2012/04/20/gIQAfrPXWT_story.html</a></pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></pre></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/907037/restaurant_workers_demand_equal_pay%2C_appealing_to_restaurant_lobbyists_and_congress/#paragraph5">http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/907037/restaurant_workers_demand_equal_pay%2C_appealing_to_restaurant_lobbyists_and_congress/#paragraph5</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/18263?akid=8631.16102.OGf_w5&t=9" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Restaurant Workers Demand Equal Pay, Appealing to Restaurant Lobbyists and Congress</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 Naima Ramos-Chapman & Tara Kutz | Campus Progress</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><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/us/postal-service-seeks-to-widen-activities-and-revenue.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120421">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/us/postal-service-seeks-to-widen-activities-and-revenue.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120421</a>
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