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<div><ol><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">Lockheed strikeþ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">RoseAnn DeMoro on Bill Moyers and Nominated for "Modern Healthcare Top 100"þ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">SEIU-UHW members just won a great contract at Kaiser!þ </font></h2></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">Seniors' Social Security Garnished for Student Debts</span> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18967?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&t=2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Caught on Camera: Scott Walker's Blow to Collective Bargaining is Part of "Divide and Conquer" Plan to Destroy Unions</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18972?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&t=8" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">More Than 200,000 Americans Will Lose Unemployment Benefits This Weekend (Even Though There Are Still No Jobs)</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18980?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&t=16" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Here's Over One Hundred Products Made From Child Or Slave Labor (GRAPHIC)</a> </b></font></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">You can help send 1,500 more workers to UFW convention next weekþ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">Video:Health workers protests in Boliviaþ</font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">Stamp Out Hunger Saturdayþ</font></h2> </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); ">Lockheed strike enters third week; workers fight to protect their pensions<br><br>May 8, 2012 by William Rogers <br><br><a href="http://leftlaborreporter.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/lockheed-strike-enters-third-week-workers-fight-to-protect-their-pensions/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://leftlaborreporter.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/lockheed-strike-enters-third-week-workers-fight-to-protect-their-pensions/</a><br><br>As the third week of a strike by 3,600 Lockheed-Martin<br>workers who belong to IAM Local 776 began on May 7, the<br>company announced that its first quarter profits were<br>20 percent higher than during the same period last year<br>and that it would be paying a quarterly dividend of $1<br>per share effective June 1, 2012.<br><br>A month earlier, Lockheed CEO Bob Stevens announced<br>that he was retiring effective January 2013. When he<br>does, his retirement security will be intact thanks to<br>his two Lockheed pension plans worth $22.5 million.<br><br>"We would think that Mr. Stevens would agree with us<br>that it's nice to have a good pension," said a posting<br>on the website of IAM Local 776, which represents the<br>striking Lockheed workers in Fort Worth, Texas, Edwards<br>Air Force Base, California, and Pax River Naval Air<br>Station, Maryland.<br><br>But it appears that Mr. Stevens thinks that only the<br>wealthiest deserve a good pension. Lockheed demanded<br>that its new contract with Local 776 eliminate pensions<br>for new hires, which is likely the first step toward<br>eliminating pensions for all its union workers.<br><br>When companies eliminate pension plans for new hires,<br>often their next step is to freeze pensions for workers<br>still eligible for pensions, writes Paul Black, Local<br>776 president, in a column that appeared in the Fort<br>Worth Star Telegram's editorial page. After freezing<br>the plans, it becomes easier to eliminate them<br>altogether, which is what led more than 90 percent of<br>Local 776 members to reject the contract offer and go<br>on strike.<br><br>Lockheed has already demonstrated that it would like to<br>eliminate pensions. In 2006, it replaced the pensions<br>of its non-union workers with individual savings plans<br>that may or may not provide a secure retirement<br>depending on how well the market does and how much a<br>worker and her employer contribute to the plan.<br><br>In her book, When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against<br>Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, Teresa Ghilarducci<br>writes that there is no evidence to suggest that<br>"typical workers can accumulate enough assets (in<br>individual savings plans) to fund a comfortable<br>retirement."<br><br>According to Ghilarducci, corporations want to<br>eliminate pensions because good pensions mean that<br>workers don't have to work as much to obtain a decent<br>standard of living in their old age, which gives<br>workers more bargaining leverage when it comes to<br>determining wages and other benefits.<br><br>When employers can take away this bargaining leverage,<br>they can make their workers work longer and harder for<br>less money. "The loss in secure pensions shifts market<br>power from workers to employers," writes Ghilarducci.<br>"And that means that the value of the reduction in<br>workers' wages is shifted to an increased value in<br>employers' profits!"<br><br>Lockheed has posted on its website a calculator that<br>estimates workers' lost wages during the strike, but<br>the calculator can't tell workers how much smaller<br>their retirement savings will be without a pension plan<br>nor how much money and benefits they will lose without<br>the bargaining leverage that secure pensions provide.<br><br>This shift in bargaining power that Ghilarducci<br>describes is one reason unions like Local 776 have<br>been fighting so hard to hang on to their pension<br>plans. Other workers are starting to realize that if a<br>big union like Local 776 has its bargaining leverage<br>reduced, it will have a ripple effect in the labor<br>market.<br><br>As a result, the striking workers have begun to receive<br>support from other unions including the Brotherhood of<br>Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, IAM locals 2511,<br>2768, 2513, and 2011, the Tarrant County (Fort Worth)<br>Labor Council, the Transportation Communications Union,<br>FITU Local 900, UFCU Local 540, UAW Local 218, IBEW,<br>and the Doctors' Guild.<br><br>People in the larger community have been supporting<br>them as well. Organizers of the Austin May Day<br>demonstration took up a collection for the strikers,<br>and it will be delivered to them by John Patrick,<br>secretary-treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO. A number of<br>local businesses and individuals have donated to<br>strikers.<br><br>"This fight for benefits is happening across our<br>nation," Black said in a statement about Lockheed's<br>quarterly report. "While corporations like Lockheed<br>(are) racking up big profits, they are working every<br>day to take away money and benefits from their<br>employees. . . . A profitable company can afford to<br>share those profits with those that do the tough and<br>highly skilled work that creates the profit."<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><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf53/1193302510/VEsH/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://nurses.bluestatedigital.com/page/-/img/email-header.jpg" width="600" height="108" border="0" alt="National Nurses United" 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></td></tr></tbody></table><table bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" height="20" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="20"> </td><td valign="top" width="560"><div id="ecxemail_content" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><strong>Inside this issue:</strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#1" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">1. NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro on Bill Moyers Show this Sunday</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#2" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">2. "Modern Healthcare Top 100" Please VOTE for RoseAnn DeMoro</a></p><hr style="line-height: 17px; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><a name="1" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "></a>Bill Moyers Interviews National Nurses Director RoseAnn DeMoro Sunday on Call for Robin Hood Tax</span></strong></span></p><div class="ecximage" style="line-height: 17px; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7177669624_e295de0e62_n.jpg" title=""><br><em>NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro with Journalist <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf50/1193302510/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Bill Moyers</a></em></div><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">NEW YORK - Moyers & Company, a current affairs program featuring Bill Moyers and airing on PBS stations nationwide, will run a segment this Sunday evening with RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country, with 170,000 members. The interview focuses on the union's call for a Robin Hood Tax, a sales tax on Wall Street speculation that could raise up to $350 billion a year in revenue.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong>Airing Sunday 6 p.m. on most PBS stations</strong></p><ul style="line-height: 17px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 1em; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 1em; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf51/1193302510/VEsF/" title="preview" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">View and share the show preview featuring RoseAnn DeMoro</a><br> </li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6e/1193302510/VEsC/" title="moyers schedule" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Check show times and schedules</a><br> </li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6f/1193302510/VEsD/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Read the NNU press release</a></li></ul><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Moyers talks to NNU/CNA Executive Director DeMoro, who will lead<a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6c/1193302510/VEsA/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "> a Chicago march</a> protesting economic inequality on May 18. DeMoro is championing the <strong>Robin Hood Tax</strong>, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like stocks and bonds. The money generated, which some estimate to be as much as <strong>$350 billion annually</strong>, could be used for social programs and job creation — ultimately to people who, without a doubt, need it more than the banks do.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong>Though the power and influence of Big Banking is intimidating, DeMoro and her organization have an inspiring history of defeating some of the toughest opponents in government and politics.</strong></p><hr style="line-height: 17px; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><a name="2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "></a>RoseAnn DeMoro Nomination for 11th Year of the "Modern Healthcare Top 100" list<br>Please Vote for Her and Ask Friends and Colleagues to Join You!</span></strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6d/1193302510/VEsB/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img align="left" alt="RAD Modern Healthcare Nominee" height="240" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7178164440_4d1e7dfe88_m.jpg" width="205" 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; ">Show your support for National Nurses United Leader RoseAnn DeMoro here</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">She's made the list for <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6a/1193302510/VEsO/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">10 years in a row</a>, and this is great prestige for our organizations and a well-deserved recognition for <strong>RoseAnn</strong>. So please be sure to vote and ask friends, coworkers and others to join you in voting for RoseAnn DeMoro.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Since NNU was founded in December 2009, from the affiliation of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, former United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association, NNU has been one of the fastest-growing organizations in the U.S. winning representation for 11,000 RNs at 24 hospitals in nine states. Today, NNU represents more than 170,000 RNs.<br><br>Additionally, NNU has been a leader in sponsoring and achieving landmark patient reforms, such as nurse-to-patient ratios and limits on managed care abuses, winning record improvements for direct-care RNs, and campaigning for the most far-reaching healthcare reform to expand Medicare to cover everyone.<br><br>Currently, NNU is campaigning for a change in national priorities, including a tax on Wall Street financial speculation to raise needed revenue for jobs, healthcare, education, housing, and other human needs, a Main Street Contract for America. <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf6b/1193302510/VEsP/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Please vote for RoseAnn DeMoro today!</a></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 600px; height: 40px; "><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="line-height: 17px; width: 150px; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf68/1193302510/VEsHBQ/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="Facebook" src="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/images/buttons/social_24x24_facebook.png" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 24px; height: 24px; "></a></td><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf69/1193302510/VEsHBA/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="Flickr Photos" src="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/images/buttons/social_24x24_flickr.png" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 24px; height: 24px; "></a></td><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf66/1193302510/VEsHBw/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="YouTube" src="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/images/buttons/social_24x24_youtube.png" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 24px; height: 24px; "></a></td><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf67/1193302510/VEsHBg/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="Twitter" src="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/images/buttons/social_24x24_twitter.png" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 24px; height: 24px; "></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#990000" height="40" valign="middle" width="600"><div id="ecxemail_footer" style="line-height: 14px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf64/1193302510/VEsHAQ/" title="Unsubscribe" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer; ">UNSUBSCRIBE</a> | <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf53/1193302510/VEsHAA/" title="National Nurses United" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer; ">www.NationalNursesUnited.org</a> | <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf65/1193302510/VEsHAw/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer; ">www.MainStreetContract.org</a><br>National Nurses United | 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 1100 Silver Spring, MD 20910</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/o/6c0b0fdb/ac40fff/712143f1/1685cf62/1193302510/open.gif" width="22" height="1" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
</div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="626" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="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 align="center" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; "> </td></tr><tr><td style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-width: 10px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><center><img border="0" align="center" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/email-images/seiu-uhw-email-header-p.jpg" title="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West" alt="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West"></center></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="626" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left" valign="top" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dfb0/1744dce/5cbe710c/394e9e0/3926714259/VEsH/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img align="right" alt="" height="190" src="http://www.seiu-uhw.org/files/2012/05/Victory_cropped.jpg" width="360" 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>Hello UHW supporter,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">I have great news!</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dfb0/1744dce/5cbe710c/394e9e0/3926714259/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><strong>We just reached a fantastic contract deal for 45,000 SEIU-UHW members at Kaiser!</strong></a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Our new national agreement with Kaiser not only maintains all of our benefits and provides good raises, but will help us get healthier and gives us the opportunity to promote better health in our community – right in line with our “Let’s Get Healthy California!” campaign. <a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dfb0/1744dce/5cbe710c/394e9e0/3926714259/VEsF/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Learn more here.</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">With this huge victory at Kaiser, we’re on a “Let’s Get Healthy” roll…</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Just last week, we announced a historic partnership with the California hospital industry to work together to improve quality and lower the costs of healthcare.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">And the Governor of California just adopted our ‘Let’s Get Healthy’ campaign as the official policy of the state, and will be working with us to reduce chronic disease and make Californians healthier.</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dfb0/1744dce/5cbe710c/394e9e0/3926714259/VEsC/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">It’s clear that when SEIU-UHW members take action together for better health, quality care, and good jobs, nothing can stand in our way.</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">So let’s do it! Let's get healthy, California!</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><img align="left" alt="" height="115" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/Alexandra Ivanovsky_small, MSW, Kaiser Roseville.jpg" width="90"></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">In Unity,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Alexandra Ivanovsky<br>Kaiser Roseville</p> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br style="line-height: 13px; "> <br style="line-height: 13px; "><div style="line-height: 13px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-image: initial; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; text-align: center; ">SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West</div> <br style="line-height: 13px; "><div style="line-height: 13px; text-align: center; ">560 Thomas L. Berkley Way, Oakland, CA 94612</div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/SocialSecurity/5-12-08-SS-StudentLoans.htm">http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/SocialSecurity/5-12-08-SS-StudentLoans.htm</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; ">Seniors' Social Security Garnished for Student Debts </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); ">Ellen Brown, Truthout: "A sizeable chunk of US student loan debt is held by senior citizens, many of whom are not only unemployed but unemployable.... Two million US seniors age 60 and over have student loan debt, on which they owe a collective $36.5 billion. Almost a third of all student loan debt is held by people aged 40 and over and 4.2 percent is held by people over the age of 60. The total student debt is now over $1 trillion, more even than credit card debt." </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=5EAU/BmzAc1yh4qQkIPyFfOnSLUnREt7" 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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</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/18972?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&t=8" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">More Than 200,000 Americans Will Lose Unemployment Benefits This Weekend (Even Though There Are Still No Jobs)</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 Pat Garotalo | Think 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.alternet.org/rss/breakingnews/928067/here%27s_over_one_hundred_products_made_from_child_or_slave_labor_%28graphic%29/?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&rd=1&t=16">http://www.alternet.org/rss/breakingnews/928067/here%27s_over_one_hundred_products_made_from_child_or_slave_labor_%28graphic%29/?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&rd=1&t=16</a> </div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18980?akid=8765.16102.1mtnGl&t=16" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Here's Over One Hundred Products Made From Child Or Slave Labor (GRAPHIC)</a></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); ">By The Huffington Post News Editors | Huffington Post</div></div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: -webkit-left; 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><div align="center" 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://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699eb/2466630015/VEsH/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img longdesc="http://www.ufw.org/" src="http://www.ufw.org/images/unitedfarmworkerswrapper.jpg" border="0" alt="wrapper" width="633" height="85" 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><a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img longdesc="https://secure.ufw.org/page/contribute/50thbuses" src="http://www.ufw.org/images/donatebar.gif" border="0" alt="donate" width="633" height="28" 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></div><table align="center" border="2" bordercolor="#000000" width="632" 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="#F8F8F8" height="23" valign="top" width="259"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">May 11, 2012</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; "><img align="left" alt="" height="125" src="http://action.ufw.org/page/-/martin.jpg" width="99">Cesar Chavez was a personal hero and dear friend. For that reason, nothing pleases me more than to be on the honorary committee to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">For half-a-century, the UFW has worked tirelessly to increase awareness among the American consumer of the reality within the fields. They have struggled to not only fight to empower farm workers, but also to emphasize how the laws on the books are not the laws in the fields.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">50 years ago farm workers didn’t even have a voice. Today, they still face conditions most of us can’t imagine happening in America. Things like being denied a few minutes to go use the bathroom. Things like having to spend hour after hour in the searing – often without being provided a simple cup of drinking water, let alone a five minute break in the shade.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">As long as these conditions exist, Cesar's dream of justice for the men, women and children working to put food on America’s tables will still exist.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">The UFW is working tirelessly to give workers the tools to create change. That’s why they want to bus 1,500 workers who are not under contract to the 50th Anniversary UFW Convention next week. Their participation will empower these workers to use these tools to change the lives of thousands more.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">Cesar Chavez spent his lifetime fighting to make a difference in the lives of farm workers.<strong>Now it is my turn. It is your turn.</strong> <a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsF/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong>Let us honor his legacy and life’s work together, by donating to get these workers on the bus.</strong></a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; ">Martin Sheen<br>Actor/Activist</span></p></td><td valign="top" width="355"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsC/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong><span style="line-height: 34px; font-size: 26px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Put 1,500 workers on the bus to the UFW Convention</span></span></strong></a></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong><img alt="" height="103" src="http://action.ufw.org/page/-/convsmall.jpg" width="345"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><strong>The UFW will be holding its 50th Anniversary Convention one week from today, from May 18 thru May 20th,</strong> at Bakersfield's convention center.<br><br>UFW members will be attending this event where the UFW will celebrate the past and present and even more importantly plan for the future. This historic event will be huge. It will cost $500,000 to stage the convention, including housing, feeding and transporting the 800 delegates, alternates and their families. <br><br>In addition, <em>on Sunday the UFW wants to bus in an additional 1,500 workers as they focus on organizing new workers.</em> It is crucial for farm workers who do not yet have the benefit of a union contract to attend, so they can strategize about how to obtain one<strong>. <a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsD/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Help determine what will the future will hold for these workers by making a donation towards the cost of busing in these extra farm workers.</a></strong><strong> </strong><br><br></span><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><img align="left" alt="" height="72" src="http://action.ufw.org/page/-/busufw.jpg" width="125"></span><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; ">The 30 extra buses needed to transport these 1,500 workers from the Salinas, Oxnard, Stockton and Madera areas and feeding them for the day will cost $99,000 or $66 per worker. <a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsA/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><strong>Can you make a donation to help the UFW cover these costs?</strong></a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsB/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img alt="" height="30" src="http://action.ufw.org/page/-/alerts/donatebutton.gif" width="102" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; "></a><br><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; "><strong><a href="http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c0a/14563619/4760b8d9/2b4699e8/2466630015/VEsO/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">https://secure.ufw.org/page/contribute/50thbuses</a></strong></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; 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But at the moment there are quite a few happening at the same time over various issues (see updated <a href="http://ain-bolivia.org/2012/02/ains-calendar-of-bolivian-blockades-and-protests/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">calendar</a> of protests).</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">As Andean Information Network <a href="http://ain-bolivia.org/2012/05/bolivian-protests-concessions-fail-to-meet-high-expectations/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">summarises</a></p><blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Various unions and organizations reject legislation or measures implemented by the Morales administration. Most notably, since March 28, public health workers, doctors, and medical students have protested a supreme decree, increasing their workday from 6 to 8 hours. Although the Bolivian government promised on May 6 to suspend the measure until it meets with workers and medical students at the end of July, protests continue. Bolivia’s central labor union, the COB has joined these protests, asking for their own agenda including increasing the minimum wage</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Today marked 42 days of protests by health workers who reject an increase in their working hours without extra pay (Decree 1126) and who also want improvements in the public health sector. The Morales government has tried to dialogue and has suspended Decree 1126 but health workers say they will only start dialogue once it is repealed (more <a href="http://www.boliviainfoforum.org.uk/news-detail.asp?id=126" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">background</a>).</p><div><a href="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ee.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><img title="Medical students clashed with Bolivian police (credit: Mike Murray)" alt="Medical students clashed with Bolivian police (credit: Mike Murray)" src="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ee.jpg?w=640&h=326" width="640" height="326" 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><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Medical students clashed with Bolivian police (credit: Mike Murray)</p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Since 28 March health workers have only been attending to emergency cases which have caused huge disruption. An indication of how long this has been going on for was on tonight´s evening news. One newsreader said she hoped there could be a dialogue to overcome the stalemate, in response her colleague just sighed heavily.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Today there were <a href="http://www.la-razon.com/sociedad/Policia-gasifica-nuevamente-estudiantes-medicina_0_1611438908.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">more clashes</a> between medical students and the police in Cochabamba and also in central La Paz, particularly near to the Health Ministry. I decided to go and see what was happening and spoke to one of the student leaders Miguel Angel Urquieta Maldonado, Medicine Faculty, UMSA.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“The government thinks that increasing 2 hours of work will improve the service. But as health workers we will never say no to a patient. Sometimes we work 48 hours at a time. Working 2 extra hours for free is unacceptable. We need new equipment to replace the old stuff that is 50 years old. We need more hospitals”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“Everyone, like street vendors, pay for our education because we are part of the public health system. We want concrete policies to improve the health service for our future patients”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“Our marches are peaceful but all of them have been repressed by the police <em>(the police claim the <a href="http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/local/20120510/estudiantes-de-medicina-dispersados-con-gases-en-el-puente-de-la_170997_359449.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">students in Cochabamba</a> have used molotov cocktails. Today a Vice Interior Minister was <a href="http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20120510/universitarios-agreden-a-viceministro-en-la-paz_171004_359451.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">hit in the head with a rock</a> in La Paz)</em>. Meanwhile the police did nothing about the transport workers who were blockading the streets on Monday and Tuesday. The government says we are manipulated but we just want a decent education because we are the future professionals. The 6 hour day was down to the struggle under neo-liberal governments. The 6 hour day is the basis of the entire health system”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“The Bolivian Constitution <em>(approved in 2009)</em> says there will be free universal health care that is equal for all. But in two mandates the Evo Morales government has not managed to fulfil what it says in the Constitution. The health insurance is only for those who have money”</p><div><a href="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/health-ministry-dario-kenner.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><img title="Bolivian police defend the Health Ministry in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)" alt="Bolivian police defend the Health Ministry in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)" src="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/health-ministry-dario-kenner.jpg?w=640&h=426" width="640" height="426" 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><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Bolivian police defend the Health Ministry in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)</p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">I wanted to know why the protests were still happening if Decree 1126 has been suspended by President Morales. Miguel explained: “Decree 1126 affects our education. Increasing from 6 to 8 hours means doctors´ can´t teach us. At the moment they work for 6 hours in the hospital and then the other 2 can give us practical lessons. Suspending a decree does not exist as legal term. You either repeal it or implement it”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“The government says it will hold a summit with civil society in July. The problem is the University will only have one space to represent them. There will be government allies like the cocaleros <em>(coca growers union which President Morales still leads)</em> and the Bartolinas <em>(National Confederation of Native Indigenous Peasant Women “Bartolina Sisa”)</em> there which is fine because it is a public arena. But when we get into more technical issues that is when health workers have to be present”.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">I asked Miguel what they will do in the future. “We don´t want what happened with the TIPNIS issue to happen to us. The march (<a href="http://boliviadiary.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/photo-essay-the-bolivian-tipnis-march/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">first anti-road march</a>) got to La Paz with overwhelming public support against the road. The government passed a <a href="http://boliviadiary.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/president-evo-morales-officially-signs-off-tipnis-law/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">law banning the road</a> and then a few months later it passed another law (to start a<a href="http://boliviadiary.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/law-to-consult-indigenous-communities-on-tipnis-road/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">consultation</a> process) and definitely wants to build the road. We are not going to let them mess us around like they have done on the TIPNIS issue”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">“We started peaceful protests and they have all been repressed. Now we are holding massive marches. If the government does not listen we will surround the cities”. It is unlikely this would happen but it shows how determined the health workers and students are to continue pressing for their demands to be met.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">While limited resources makes improving health care a challenge for the Morales government it is difficult to see health workers and students giving in any time soon. The pressure of the other protests happening at the moment like trade unions demanding salary increases and the <a href="http://boliviadiary.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/second-tipnis-anti-road-march-begins/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">second march</a> by indigenous movements against a road through the TIPNIS might just force the government to back down on this issue.</p><div><a href="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/medical-students-march-in-central-la-paz-credit-dario-kenner.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><img title="Medical students march in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)" alt="Medical students march in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)" src="http://boliviadiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/medical-students-march-in-central-la-paz-credit-dario-kenner.jpg?w=640&h=426" width="640" height="426" 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><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Medical students march in central La Paz (credit: Dario Kenner)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" width="626" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" 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"><table width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=YBQTWtphsUVLyeD7zO9xkoPrmZQb5NMA" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/aflcionowblog_700x100.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></td></tr><tr><td><table width="700" cellpadding="13" border="0" align="left" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b>May 11, 2012</b></span></span></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" border="0" align="right" 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=4W4Mqv06bqRTy7xDAHr2p4PrmZQb5NMA" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/Visions-of-Future-Success-Rutgers_medium.jpg" title="Visions of future success" alt="Visions of future success" 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=ID5gpYySJJ0A%2BGs8IUduiIPrmZQb5NMA" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Only half of those who graduated college between 2006 and 2011 have full-time jobs, says a new study. 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