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cursor: pointer; ">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-mct-homecare-union-election-battle-on-again-20120504,0,1286517.story</a><br><br>Fresno County's 10,000 homecare workers could face a rerun<br>of a bitterly fought union election to decide their<br>representation if an effort for a new vote is successful.<br><br>But the bid for a re-election won't come without its own<br>fight.<br><br>Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers want to<br>overturn a narrow win in 2009 by the Service Employees<br>International Union-United Healthcare Workers-West.<br><br>SEIU-UHW vows to oppose the attempt.<br><br>On Thursday, NUHW President Sal Rosselli said a decision by<br>the California Public Employment Relations Board opens the<br>door for a new election by homecare workers. "This election<br>can be thrown out so workers can have a fair election to<br>decide their own fate," he said at a news conference outside<br>the Fresno County Hall of Records.<br><br>The April 18 board decision overturns an earlier ruling by a<br>board regional attorney who dismissed a complaint by the<br>NUHW. The union had alleged election misconduct by SEIU,<br>including voter intimidation, illegal threats and ballot<br>manipulation.<br><br>"They organized a campaign of fear, intimidation," Rosselli<br>said Thursday.<br><br>Connie Lara, a former homecare worker who attended the news<br>conference, said SEIU representatives "were very hateful"<br>during the election three years ago.<br><br>The case now goes back to the board's general counsel.<br><br>But first, SEIU-UHW plans to ask the board to reconsider its<br>decision, said spokesman Nathan Selzer.<br><br>"This has always been a fishing expedition" on the part of<br>the NUHW, Selzer said. In three years, it "has not presented<br>any wrongdoing by SEIU-UHW members or representatives," he<br>said. "We'll present our case and they'll present theirs,<br>and we're confident this will be a nonissue."<br><br>The 2009 election for Fresno County homecare workers was the<br>first large-scale contest between the SEIU union and the<br>NUHW. The unions have been locked in conflict since the NUHW<br>was launched in January 2009 out of a rift over leadership<br>of the United Healthcare Workers-West, the Oakland-based<br>local of the SEIU.<br><br>An overturn of the homecare election would be a major blow<br>to the SEIU, the largest union representing Fresno County<br>workers. In the past two weeks, SEIU has had 250 workers at<br>the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District<br>decertify the union for their labor unit; hundreds of county<br>corrections officers and social services employees could do<br>the same.<br><br>SEIU also faces a re-election to represent 43,000 Kaiser<br>Permanente workers statewide, including about 1,500 in<br>Fresno. Last October, a majority of the workers voted to<br>remain with the SEIU. The NUHW objected and last July, the<br>National Labor Relations Board said a new election must be<br>held.<br><br>The reporter can be reached at (559) 441-6310,<br>banderson@fresnobee.com or @beehealthwriter on Twitter.<br><br>==========<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><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5212787662047a7d13&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 20px; ">Yolo County seeks to shift pension costs onto workers</a><br><span style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; ">By Loretta Kalb</span></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 16px; ">A decade after agreeing to pick up employees' share of pension contributions to CalPERS, Yolo County is working to reverse that decision. - <a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5212787662047a7d13&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px; ">Read More</a></span></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="100%" border="0" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe4f12787662047a7c1d&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 20px; ">Job Front: More employers offer flex time, study shows</a><br><span style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; ">By Darrell Smith</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 16px; ">Employers are showing more flexibility with their workers, a new report reveals, with more firms offering time during the day to attend to family and personal matters and flex time. - <a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe4f12787662047a7c1d&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px; ">Read More</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155274/chicago_teachers_weigh_strike_option_over_employer_demands?akid=8726.16102.-muXx5&rd=1&t=27">http://www.alternet.org/story/155274/chicago_teachers_weigh_strike_option_over_employer_demands?akid=8726.16102.-muXx5&rd=1&t=27</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 415px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18778?akid=8726.16102.-muXx5&t=26" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1336101657_shutterstock80227045.jpg_640x426_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" align="left" border="0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a></td><td><span style="color: white; ">-</span></td><td valign="top"><p class="ecxheadline3" style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18778?akid=8726.16102.-muXx5&t=27" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Chicago Teachers Weigh Strike Option Over Employer Demands</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Demoralized after being scapegoated for problems in Chicago Public Schools, Chicago's teachers are gearing up for what could be their first strike since 1987. <a class="ecxreadmore" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18778?akid=8726.16102.-muXx5&t=28" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; "><strong>READ MORE</strong></a></p><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); ">By David Moberg / In These Times</p></td></tr></tbody></table></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); ">Labor chief faces challenges as advocate for federal workers<br>By ERIK WASSON<br>The Hill<br>May 15, 2012<br><a href="http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/227333-federal-workers-defense" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/227333-federal-workers-defense</a><br><br>For 13 years, Colleen Kelley has served as one of<br>Washington's leading advocates for federal workers.<br><br>As president of the National Treasury Employees Union<br>(NTEU), Kelley has had a hand in every major deficit<br>negotiation of the last year. She has tangled with the<br>Tea Party and gone up against GOP standard-bearers<br>Reps. Darrell Issa (Calif.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.). She<br>represents everyone's favorite: the tax collectors.<br><br><br>Her job has never been tougher.<br><br>"This is the worst political climate for federal<br>workers in decades," Kelley told The Hill in an<br>interview at her H Street headquarters. "You see these<br>current attacks, they're nonstop. Literally everyday<br>there's a new one aimed at federal employees."<br><br>Kelley is now tracking two dozen bills in Congress<br>aimed at reducing worker pay and benefits, the highest<br>she has seen since joining NTEU in the 1970s as a<br>worker at the IRS.<br><br>House Republicans have proposed five-year pay freezes,<br>5 percent increases in employee contributions to<br>retirement plans and the requirement that two workers<br>leave before one is hired. They have argued that<br>federal worker pay is too generous and guaranteed<br>pensions unaffordable, given a $16 trillion national<br>debt.<br><br>Half of Kelley's time is spent traveling the country,<br>comforting frightened members of her union, most of<br>whom work outside the Beltway. Fear was especially high<br>last year when the government almost shut down due to a<br>budget battle and workers worried they would lose pay.<br><br>"It is very hard for them to understand why these<br>attacks keep coming. They know they work hard; they are<br>proud of what they do; they are dedicated," she said.<br><br>Kelley is passionate when talking about the<br>contribution that people can make when choosing to work<br>for the government. She still thinks young people<br>should go into the bureaucracy to "make a difference."<br><br>Kelley's office is filled with Sept. 11 memorials given<br>to her by members working for the Department of<br>Homeland Security.<br><br>"I think a lot of federal employees do their work under<br>the radar. The country depends on them to do it without<br>a lot of fanfare. They just expect them to do it," she<br>said.<br><br>"A lot of this hostile legislation very often comes<br>from those who don't respect federal employees and what<br>they do. They just want less federal employees and they<br>want to turn that work over to contractors at a much<br>higher price," she said.<br><br><br>To keep the enthusiasm to cut worker benefits in check,<br>Kelly is trying to make her members more popular. That<br>can be especially hard when your members are tax<br>collectors.<br><br>"It just goes with the nature of what they do," she<br>said of the public disdain. "I guess if you are getting<br>a refund you might have a bit of a different experience<br>with them.<br><br>"Some people just have an initial reaction to IRS<br>rather than thinking about what they do," she added.<br>"If they think about some agency that they really like<br>and really need, like the National Park Service or the<br>FDA ... if the IRS doesn't collect the revenue and you<br>depend on those services, they can't do that."<br><br>Kelley ticks off a list of close allies in Congress; at<br>the top of the all-Democrat list are House Minority<br>Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Budget Committee ranking<br>member Chris Van Hollen (Md.).<br><br>"There is no doubt that when we look at the<br>implications of various budget proposals, we seek her<br>input," Van Hollen, who served on last year's debt<br>supercommittee and the earlier Biden deficit talks,<br>told The Hill.<br><br>"Federal civilian employees, whether or not they are<br>members of NTEU, have no more effective or able<br>champion than Colleen Kelley," Hoyer said.<br><br>To understand what makes Kelley tick, you have to first<br>understand that she is from Pittsburgh.<br><br>"I have been here for 23 years now and when I travel on<br>airplanes inevitably I get a talker and they ask where<br>I'm from and I always say Pittsburgh," she said. "I<br>will never be from D.C."<br><br>She goes home about once a month.<br><br>"It's 240 miles door to door and I can drive it<br>blindfolded," she said.<br><br>Like most Yinzers, Kelley is a Steelers fanatic. And<br>her office features a large drawing of Forbes Field,<br>the former home of the Pirates that used to be a quick<br>walk from her house.<br><br>"I was a big baseball fan when [Roberto] Clemente<br>played," she said. "Then they tore down Forbes Field<br>and went to a bigger stadium, and it just kind of lost<br>something."<br><br>Kelley has a large family back in the 'Burgh.<br><br>Twenty-nine family members came out to celebrate when<br>Kelley became NTEU vice president in 1995.<br><br>Unionism runs in Kelley's family. Her father, now<br>deceased, was a Teamster and a truck driver. A photo of<br>her parents occupies a place of honor to the right of<br>her desk.<br><br>Still, Kelley said, when she joined the IRS as an<br>accountant she did not intend to become a union leader.<br>Unaccountable managers convinced her to take action.<br><br>"You see injustices and things that are unfair," she<br>said.<br><br>Since winning election in 1999 as president, the last<br>time she ran unopposed, Kelley said her greatest<br>achievements involved working with the Bush<br>administration to stop the outsourcing of IRS<br>collection activities and getting customs and border<br>agents to choose NTEU as their union when Homeland<br>Security was created.<br><br>A membership setback came last year when the<br>Transportation Security Agency decided to go with the<br>rival American Federation of Government Workers as its<br>union of choice.<br><br>Another tough one was the 2010 imposition of a two-year<br>pay freeze for federal workers that President Obama<br>signed off on and an increase in pension contributions<br>for new hires used to pay for the extension of<br>unemployment insurance in February.<br><br>"I made clear my dissatisfaction and disagreement with<br>that action," Kelley said of the pay freeze when asked<br>if Obama had betrayed her members. "We have worked hard<br>over the last two years in an effort to have the<br>administration support that the pay freeze needs to end<br>and they have been very public and very clear that the<br>pay freeze needs to end."<br><br>So far NTEU has not endorsed Obama for reelection, but<br>it is clear Kelley views GOP candidate Mitt Romney as<br>worse. Romney's economic plan suggests slashing federal<br>compensation by up to 40 percent.<br><br>"What he and others never talk about is how they are<br>going to get the work done that the public depends on,"<br>she said.<br><br>Out on the road, Kelley tells members to pressure their<br>elected officials.<br><br>"I tell them everything about the working life of a<br>federal employee is decided by someone who is elected,"<br>she said. "The upcoming year will be very important and<br>the upcoming election will determine whether it will be<br>another two years or four years until [the climate for<br>federal workers] changes."<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.<br></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/6c0b0c28/ac40fff/71223b1a/1685c756/2717791380/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; "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; ">Inside this Issue:</span></strong></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. Bill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax</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. Anna Deavere Smith - of Nurse Jackie - to Perform in Chicago on Nation’s Healthcare Crisis</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#3" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">3. Chicago Mayor Emanuel Agrees to Let Nurses Rally in Daley Plaza May 18</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong><a name="1" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "></a></strong></p><hr style="line-height: 17px; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img alt="moyers and demoro" height="234" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7205263734_e4e958dd80.jpg" width="500"><br><em><strong>Bill Moyers </strong>interviews <strong>NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro </strong>on the International push<br>for a "Robin Hood Tax" on Wall Street, the power of NNU/CNA, and Chicago G8 Actions on May 18.</em></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c28/ac40fff/71223b1a/1685c757/2717791380/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><strong>Bill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax</strong></a><br><br>In an interview aired nationally on PBS this week – to be rebroadcast Wednesday, May 16, 10 p.m. (<a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c28/ac40fff/71223b1a/1685c754/2717791380/VEsF/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">check local schedule</a>) –<strong> legendary journalist Bill Moyers interviewed RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director, National Nurses United (NNU)</strong>, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country, on the issues that are <strong>bringing thousands of nurses and supporters to Chicago for a May 18 Day of Action and Rally at Daley Plaza</strong>. The interview focuses on the union’s<strong> call for a Robin Hood Tax, a sales tax on Wall Street speculation, that could raise up to $350 billion a year</strong> in revenue and is at the center of the <strong>May 18 rally</strong>. —<em>NNU Press Release</em>, 05/15/12 <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c28/ac40fff/71223b1a/1685c755/2717791380/VEsC/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><span class="ecxmore">More »</span><strong></strong></a><strong><a name="2" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "></a></strong></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img alt="Anna Deveare Smith (Photo Credit: Mary Ellen Mark)" height="174" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7199849602_12d23c5cfb_o.gif" width="150"></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c28/ac40fff/71223b1a/1685c752/2717791380/VEsD/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><strong>Anna Deavere Smith - of Nurse Jackie - to Perform in Chicago on Nation’s Healthcare Crisis</strong></a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong>The critically acclaimed actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith</strong>, who portrays a nurse on the <strong>Emmy award winning Showtime dark comedy Nurse Jackie</strong>, will perform <strong>Tell Us Where It Hurts, America’s Nurses are Listening</strong>, a theatrical piece written for an estimated international audience of more than<strong> 1,000 nurses</strong>. 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Ahora más que nunca, frente a la difícil coyuntura que atraviesa el país, es necesario extraer las tendencias fundamentales que la caracterizan y traducirlas en un plan de acción. Confiamos con que el ampliado del sector decisivo del proletariado boliviano sepa cumplir con esta tarea.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">La crisis mundial del capitalismo no está afectando la principal fuente de ingresos del Estado, los hidrocarburos, que depende fundamentalmente del desenvolvimiento de las economías de Brasil y Argentina y mantiene a flote la economía nacional justificando las políticas gubernamentales. Sin embargo las bruscas oscilaciones de precios y la contracción de mercados generan situaciones de crisis en otros sectores productivos, que desincentivan las inversiones y se convierten en nueva presión ejercida sobre el movimiento obrero mientras provocan una siempre más profunda diferenciación en líneas de clase en el campesinado.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">El gobierno sigue implementando medidas que podemos enmarcar en un capitalismo de Estado, justificado como etapa “transitoria” al socialismo. La parcial nacionalización de recursos y empresas de servicio, asimismo la creación de empresas productivas de Estado, ha permitido una redistribución de la riqueza hacia los estratos más pobre de la población. Sin embargo los medios de producción siguen en manos de una especuladora burguesía nacional y de multinacionales, que acaparran la cuota mayor de la riqueza nacional en la forma de lucro, indemnizaciones, intereses a la deuda pública interna, inflación, incentivos y subvenciones a la producción, contrabando etc.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">En la medida en que el Estado se hace cargo solo de sectores marginales de la producción e interviene en los sectores estratégicos solo para incentivar la iniciativa privada, la carga principal de los planes de desarrollo es sobrellevada por la clase obrera, los beneficios mayores son acaparrados por empresarios nacionales y multinacionales, mientras se acentúan las tendencias populistas en el gobierno y la independencia de la burocracia estatal frente a los movimientos y organizaciones sociales en general, a la clase obrera y el campesinado pobre en particular.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Este es el fondo de clase de los conflictos que atraviesan el país. Que la derecha intenta capitalizar aprovechando: a) las escisiones en el movimiento de masa y la defensa de intereses corporativos que el mismo gobierno fomenta con políticas desacertadas, como en el caso del TIPNIS y de salud; b) la ausencia de una alternativa con carácter de masa para la reconducción socialista del proceso.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Las manifestaciones de apoyo al gobierno (Cochabamba, Tarija) han venido principalmente de sectores de la burocracia pública y cocaleros, que comparten con multinacionales y terratenientes los mismos intereses a un mayor control de los sindicatos y a la ampliación de la frontera agrícola, en desmedro de la productividad agrícola y del campesinado pobre. Esto inevitablemente prepara nuevos y más agudos conflictos, aunque por el momento oculta tras el apoyo al gobierno las contradicciones en el campesinado, sin dejar de debilitar al proceso.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Subjetivamente, hace falta el mismo papel activo de la clase trabajadora que fue fundamental en las jornadas de Octubre de 2003 para plasmar una Agenda en que se reconociesen los diferentes sectores sociales, bajo la consigna de la nacionalización y la industrialización de nuestros recursos. Y que sirva realmente a evitar infiltraciones de la derecha y a definir los contornos de la lucha de clase en el país.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">El documento aprobado en el Congreso de la COB en Tarija representa un enorme paso adelante en este sentido. El proletariado minero está haciendo carne de la propuesta estratégica de la completa nacionalización de los recursos y la reactivación del aparato productivo a partir del Estado. Lo demuestra el caso de los mineros de Colquiri y también de la lucha contra los retiros del sindicato de Tres Amigos en Potosí, cuyos activistas reivindicaban las Tesis de Pulacayo en su movilización.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Actualmente esta propuesta estratégica es la única realmente capaz de ir al fondo de las contradicciones del proceso, sin quedarse en la superficie donde proliferan los intentos de la derecha de instrumentalizar la protesta social. Como ocurre evidentemente tanto con la marcha por el TIPNIS que en el conflicto en salud.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">La posición de los mineros debe ser por la afirmación de la independencia de clase del proletariado, lo cual en el actual coyuntura solo es posible en base a la autónoma capacidad de iniciativa para pasar “<i style="line-height: 17px; ">del apoyo</i> [al gobierno del MAS] <i style="line-height: 17px; ">a la participación efectiva, orgánica y militante para avanzar hacia un proceso socialista</i>” (documento de Tarija). Es necesario</font></span></p><ul style="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; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Preparar y organizar desde el sector minero una movilización nacional para la nacionalización sin indemnización y bajo control obrero de los principales recursos del país, como planteado en el documento político del congreso de Tarija. Para que esta consigna se convierta en el eje de la movilización popular (por el salario, el control de los recursos y contra la burocratización), resaltando las contradicciones internas al gobierno y el MAS y elevándose como dique contra la derecha, el oportunismo y el sectarismo. Esto debe servir también a preparar el proletariado minero a la tempestad que se aproxima con la tendencia generalizada a la baja de los precios de los minerales y las inevitables agudizaciones de la lucha que esto conllevará;</font></span></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Hacer de este eje el fulcro articulador de alianzas sociales, promoviendo desde las bases asambleas populares, cumbres sociales, comités de lucha, a los cuales puedan adherirse corrientes, militantes políticos y sectores sociales huérfanos de dirección y norte político;</font></span></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; ">Intervenir en las contradicciones en las filas del campesinado, exigiendo una política de industrialización y dotación de insumos a favor de las comunidades agrarias; por un verdadero poder para el campesinado pobre de determinar las políticas agrarias del país; por la definitiva liquidación del latifundio; por la subvención a la producción y al consumo de las comunidades agrarias.</font></span></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">¡Viva la vanguardia minera del proletariado boliviano!</strong></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">¡Viva la FSTMB!</strong></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; "><br></strong></font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><div id="mpf0_bodyHdr" style="line-height: 15px; 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">Important Notice:</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. web site: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html#entry_requirements</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Schedule (There may be slight variations from tour to tour.)</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">9:00 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border. Direction to meet here will be provided later. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">9:45 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">10:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo, Douglas Furniture, other maquiladoras: workers' labor conditions, labor rights and struggles<br><br>NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won't enter any factory.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">11:00 am- Community Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialization, health, environment, urban development</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">11:30 pm- Metales y Derivados, a story of struggle and success for environmental justice</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">12:15 pm- Lunch</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">1:00 pm- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance about these cooperatives, please go to http://ollincallicoop.blogspot.com/</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">3:00 pm- Return to the Tijuana bus station</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Donations</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">$30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers' organizations.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">To reserve a place, please go to www.sdmaquila.org</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">If you prefer to use the postal system, or for more information, please contact:</div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Herb Shore: sdmaquila@cox.net, (619) 287-5535</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "><i> </i></div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, Environmental Health Coalition, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "><i> </i></div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; "><b>MAQUILADORAS EN TIJUANA: UN RECORRIDO</b></div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Conoce las luchas y condiciones de trabajo de los y las trabajadoras de las maquilas</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Sábado 2 de junio, 2012, 9 am a 3 pm</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Nota importante:</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Ciudadanos de EUA necesitan pasaporte para regresar a EUA.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Ciudadanos de EUA tienen que leer la alerta del Departamento de Estado y firmar el waiver. Please see the alert in an attached file.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">AGENDA DEL TOUR (PUEDE VARIAR UN POCO DE UNO A OTRO TOUR)</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">9:00 am en punto en San Ysidro o la entrada a Tijuana desde San Ysidro. Instrucciones en dónde juntarse serán proporcionadas posteriormente. Desde San Ysidro cruzaremos la frontera a pie para abordar un autobús particular que nos transportará en Tijuana. O también nos podemos reunir del lado de Tijuana en la estación de los taxis amarillos.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">9:45 am- Visita a las cruces en la frontera: Más de 7,00 emigrantes han muerto tratando de cruzar la frontera.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">10:30 am- Parque Industrial de Otay: Sanyo, Douglas Furniture, otras maquiladoras: condiciones laborales, derechos laborales y luchas en las maquilas</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">NOTA: Visitaremos una zona industrial de Tijuana pero no entraremos a ninguna fábrica.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">11:00 am- Comunidad Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialización, salud, medio ambiente y desarrollo humano</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">11:30 am- Metales y Derivados, una historia de lucha y éxito por justicia ambiental</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">12:15 pm- Lunch</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">1:00 pm- Dialogo con el grupo sobre la experiencia del tour; preguntas y comentarios</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">2:00 pm: Trabajadoras de Tijuana están organizando cooperativas que promueven una economía alternativa. Ellas traerán su producción al tour. Para saber desde antes sobre esas cooperativas, favor de visitar: http://ollincallicoop.blogspot.com/</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">3:00 pm- Regreso a la estación de autobuses amarillos de Tijuana</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">DONACIONES</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Para reservar, favor de escribir a maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net. O si prefiere, puede reservar en la página web (en inglés) at <a href="http://sdmaquila.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><i>http://sdmaquila.org</i></a>.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">USA: $30 regular, $20 students, $50 solidarity</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">México: $20 regular, $10 estudiantes, algunas becas a estudiantes $5, gratis a trabajadoras/es</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Las donaciones cubren el autobús, almuerzo y una donación a las organizaciones de trabajadoras</div><div style="line-height: 17px; "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; ">Invitan: Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo por Justicia Ambiental, Red de San Diego en Solidaridad con los y las Trabajadoras de las Maquiladoras, Coalicion pro Justicia Ambiental, Coalición Pro-Justicia en las Maquiladoras</div><div style="line-height: 17px; 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