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margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(227, 27, 35); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 23px; font-size: large; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">PLAYING CHICKEN WITH WORKERS' SAFETY?</span></span></h2><span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; "><img width="400" height="35" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5873/images/email_line_400px.jpg" alt=""></span> <br><table width="220" cellpadding="10" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="right" style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; "><tbody><tr style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><td style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><br><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><strong>Tell Secretary Vilsack to withdraw the proposed poultry rule.</strong></span></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; 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If she does, sharp pain shoots through her arms, chest, and back. Lifting used to be Guadalupe’s job. As a poultry processing worker, she spent hours each day reaching above her head to hang chicken carcasses on a production line. Keeping up with the line speed was almost impossible and her arms would go numb from the work. Eventually, Guadalupe’s doctor diagnosed her with a repetitive motion injury in her elbow and ordered her not to lift more than five pounds. When Guadalupe tried to follow the doctor’s orders, she was fired.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">Guadalupe is no exception. Line speed is hurting many workers in poultry processing plants.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b0h2U5K6WZjSy62UnAmroPX7y1Cu4gER" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(227, 27, 35); cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">Now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to let plants run their lines even faster—increasing the speed limit from 140 to 175 birds per minute! What’s worse is that USDA apparently has no plan for greater oversight and monitoring of worker safety for companies that increase production line speeds.</span></span></a></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">More than half a million people are employed in meat and poultry production in the U.S. Injuries like Guadalupe’s, as well as cuts and falls, are common among workers because of crowded conditions and fast-moving lines. Jorge, a poultry worker in Alabama, is required to hang 64 dead chickens per minute. At that speed, Jorge says, “many times I have to dislodge chickens and re-hang them when they get stuck on conveyer belts and pile up on the tables.”</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">Ironically, USDA wants to increase line speed as an incentive for poultry companies to “modernize” their plants to improve food safety. In reality, faster line speeds would turn back the clock to a dark chapter of American history when businesses had no responsibility for the health and safety of workers.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=diVTBJQV6EzLZy2v0J8LafX7y1Cu4gER" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(227, 27, 35); cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">Is USDA really willing to risk severed limbs and debilitating injuries? 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His union has been on strike for five years at the huge Cananea mine, one of the longest strikes in the history of North America. Critical support for this strike has come from the U.S. miners' union, the United Steel Workers, and both unions have announced their desire to merge to form a single organization. Martinez describes the history of the strike and the horrifying conditions in Cananea today in an interview with David Bacon.</i></div><div><br></div><div><img src=""></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; ">Members of the miners' union, the Mineros, march to Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, to protest the repression of unions by President Felipe Calderon.</i></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Our town is where the Mexican Revolution began in 1906, at a time when miners there were virtually enslaved. The mine was eventually taken over by the government, which ran it for many years. Nevertheless, over the last hundred years there were many strikes in this mine over wages and working conditions</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Finally, in 1989, the government stopped all operations at the mine, and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari declared that the mine was bankrupt. In August of that year the government sent in Federal troops. The miners were expelled from the mine, and the mine was closed for three months. Then Salinas sold it to private owners, Grupo Mexico, the company run by the Larrea family. Really, it was basically given away. The government had just invested 400 million pesos in the ore concentrator alone. Grupo Mexico bought the whole mine for 650 million.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> After the Larrea family took over, we've had nothing but battle after battle with them. They are one of the largest mining companies in the world, and one of the richest families in Mexico. The company was forced to make certain commitments in order to take over the mine, but they've never fulfilled any of them. One was to share with the workers five percent of the price they'd paid for the mine. Because of their failure, in 2004 we took action to force the company to pay what had become by that time a debt of 55 million pesos. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> After that things became even more difficult. Before, the government was at least a little concerned for our welfare. Now all dialogue with the government has been cut off, and they give total support to Grupo Mexico.<br style="line-height: 17px; "> We went on strike again on June 30, 2007, because of the deteriorating conditions in the mine. Once the strike started, the Federal government, through the labor board, declared it illegal several times. Each time we've gone to court, and the courts have overruled the board and restored the strike's legal status. According to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, we have a right to return to our jobs.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Once again, on April 14, 2010, the strike was declared legal by the courts. Nevertheless, at 10PM the same day the company withdrew recognition from our union and broke off its employer/union relationship with us. That was completely illegal. But the government then brought in police and troops, and allowed the company to reopen the mine.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> At the time we went on strike, there were about 1200 members of our union. Now there are still 850 people on strike, five years later. The company has tried to buy people off by offering them severance pay if they'll give up any claim to their jobs. In my case, after 23 years working in the mine, they've offered me 1,007,000 pesos [about $85,000]. They've said that in addition, they'd give me 830,000 pesos to try to buy me out. But I won't take their offer, nor will any of the strikers.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> We don't have Social Security medical insurance, so the medical care we get comes from the company as part of our employment. If we take their offer, we will lose all our medical care. The 850 strikers have been fighting for this too. To make matters worse, on Mother's Day in 2008, the company gave us an additional gift by closing the hospital where we received our care. Counting children and retirees, an additional 1200 people lost their medical care because of that.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> The government stepped in to provide some services, but even though we can see a doctor again, we have no money to buy medicine. This has hurt our retirees especially, because now they have to pay for medicine, where in the past the company had to provide it. Some of us have severe problems because of working in the mine, like silicosis and high blood pressure, so doing without medical care is not an option.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> To protest government support for the company, about 50 miners have gone to Hermosillo, the state capitol, where they are occupying a site near the government building. When they come back to Cananea, other workers go to take their place. We are not the only local union of miners on strike. Section 17 has been on strike in Taxco and Section 201 in Zacatecas. We are all facing Grupo Mexico. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> We are also protesting over what happened at Pasta de Conchos in 2006. The union made many requests to the Labor Secretary, asking that the government conduct inspections of that mine. But there were none, and finally there was a terrible explosion in which 65 miners were trapped inside and died. The only thing they did was close the mine. The company even refused to go in and bring back the bodies, and the government backed them up. The company and government claimed it was an accident. But the president of our union, Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, held a press conference and called it industrial homicide. After that, the government tried to arrest him and he had to flee to Canada. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Since we've been fighting Grupo Mexico, we've had the financial support of the United Steel Workers in the U.S., who also gave sanctuary to our president. That's how we've been able to survive. Over 80,000 workers are contributing to our ability to go on fighting. And we are also receiving contributions from our own members in Mexico who are still working. So our situation in Cananea isn't good, but we've been able to continue for five years. Our members still support the strike totally. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> The company has been able to restart production, using about 3,000 workers who are employed by contractors. There are about 2,000 Federal soldiers guarding them. They've turned Cananea into an armed camp. They have towers with machine guns watching over people, and you can't even pass through certain streets in the center of town. This is why we're supporting Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in his campaign for President in our national elections in July. He's promised that if he's elected, he'll defend us. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Grupo Mexico is really destroying Cananea. The mine pumps water from about 70 wells. Cananea, with a population of 30,000, only has two or three. The mine is buying up land throughout this area, and now has more land than the town itself. They use it to dump the mine tailings, which have already buried part of the old town. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Meanwhile, of the 300 members of our union who betrayed us and went back to work, only about 50 are left. The only way they've been able to make the mine run is by bringing in 3,000 people from outside, from Oaxaca, Puebla and other states in the south. The economic situation in these states is worse than here in the north. There's no work, no jobs there. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Grupo Mexico has built special housing for many of the strikebreakers on the mine property, called colectivos. They're like barracks. For others, the company rents big houses in town, where a lot of them are housed together. The company then picks them up in busses in the morning and brings them back at night. That way it controls them. And the whole economy of Cananea has collapsed because these workers aren't living in the area like normal residents. Many of them actually come here because we're close to the U.S. border, and they're thinking about jumping the fence. The reality is that the economy here is pretty dead. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> Grupo Mexico mistreats these workers. It's gone back to the same conditions people rose up against in 1906, when miners went on strike for the 8-hour day. The strikebreakers are working 12 hours a day. They all have to belong to a protection union, part of the CTM [the Confederation of Mexican Workers, affiliated to Mexico's former ruling party, the PRI]. Then, after working four or five months, the company fires them. They only get 1,300 pesos a week [about $100], so when people want to go home, they don't have enough money to get back. Some of the fired workers wander through the streets, begging for help from other workers so they can get home.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> With people brought in from outside to work the mine, the only solution for the people of Cananea itself is to leave, to migrate. There's no other work here. Some go to other states, or to other cities in northern Mexico. They leave by themselves to look for work. Then right after they get paid on Friday, they send the money home to their families. Most go to the U.S. That's logical, because the border is only a half hour away, and Tucson's only three hours from here. And that's where the work is. Sometimes people just go to work for two or three weeks, and then come back, trying to find a way to keep on living here. They try to use the work in the U.S. to build up their reserves. This also happened after the three-month strike in 1998.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> The people who are on strike are all people who live here, and most of us have been living here for generations. The head of our strike committee, Jesus Verdugo, is the third generation in his family to work in the mine. Now his children are old enough to work. But if we don't win the strike, they'll never work here. We're losing our traditions; we're losing the whole history of Cananea. And this is because of what Grupo Mexico and the Federal government are doing to us. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "> You could say we're fighting for our right and ability to keep on living in Cananea. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><img src=""></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; ">Jacinto Martinez</i></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><hr><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">See also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="line-height: normal; ">http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html</font></div><div><br></div><div>Two lectures on the political economy of migration by David Bacon</div><div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgDWf9eefE&feature=youtu.be</div><div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd4OLdaoxvg&feature=related</div><pre style="line-height: normal; font-size: 15px; ">--
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Christie</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story4" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Nine New York Mayors Oppose Verizon's Big Cable Deal</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story5" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWA-TU Begins Bargaining</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story6" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWA Locals Support the Fight Against Pediatric AIDS</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story7" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Federal Judge Overturns NLRB Rules to Ensure More Timely Elections</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story8" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWA Activists Stand Strong at AT&T</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story9" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWA and NAACP Fight Voter Suppression</a></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#story10" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">CWA Candidate Beat Incumbent Mayor</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); "><a name="story1" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">American Airlines Agents Press NMB to Move Forward on Union Election</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 320px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="320" height="204" alt="NMB_Hearing_DC" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7217497414_ec9819c140.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">American Airlines agents and supporters march to the NMB.</p></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">American Airlines is still refusing to hand over mailing labels to the National Mediation Board so that passenger service agents can vote on union representation. So workers took matters into their own hands.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">On Tuesday, a group of agents and supporters hand delivered labels containing the names and mailing addresses of nearly all voting eligible employees to the NMB's general counsel, urging her to move forward on the union representation election for nearly 10,000 agents.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"American Airlines employees must be afforded their right to choose union representation in a free election," CWA President Larry Cohen said in the accompanying letter to NMB General Counsel Mary L. Johnson. "The timing of the election is particularly critical in this situation, as American Airlines is in bankruptcy and is using that proceeding to make immediate, structural and life changing decisions about passenger service agents."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">But in papers filed Tuesday, American's parent company AMR responded that it won't hand over the labels while it contests NMB's decision to even allow the election. AMR is currently suing the agency to stop agents from voting. CWA and the passenger service group are intervening in the lawsuit that AMR has filed against the NMB, supporting the agency's position that the election should go forward.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Last December, CWA filed a request with the NMB for an election, which was supported by more than 35 percent of workers, which was what the law required at the time. But as NMB worked to set an election date, Congress changed the law to require election requests to be supported by 50 percent of workers. The new law went into effect in February, two months after the agents filed. But AMR is seeking to rewrite aviation legislation and substitute its own agenda for that of Congress, so it can muzzle its employees and stop them from having a union voice.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">And despite US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane's decision not to issue a temporary injunction to bar American Airlines from implementing devastating wage, benefit and working conditions cuts for passenger service agents, agents and CWA supporters are pressing forward for a fair and timely election.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"American Airlines has been doing everything it can think of, both legal and not, to block agents from voting on union representation," said CWA Organizing Director Sandy Rusher. But agents are continuing to mobilize, sending petitions to the American Airlines CEO and to the NMB calling for a fair election now.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and members of the Illinois congressional delegation sent <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZURlcuB4K1VpABlmmnhyjwbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">this letter</a> to American Airlines CEO Thomas Horton, calling on him to respect workers' right to vote on union representation.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Find more information at <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=fePif8cqY1JOaiUYeuMd5Abtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">www.american-agents.org</a>.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Activists Protest Secret Trade Deal</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 320px; float: left; font-size: 10px; margin-right: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="320" height="205" alt="TPP_Rally_5-12-2012_a" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7232/7217496848_f48ca4553b.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings speaks at the rally.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Below: Members from CWA, UAW, Sierra Club and more march on the closed-door negotiations.</p><img width="320" height="218" alt="TPP_Rally_5-12-2012_b" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7219/7217497090_8e984a22e1.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Nearly 400 protesters marched to the doorstep of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators this weekend, demanding transparency and accountability in the secretive international trade talks.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Rallying outside the Intercontinental Hotel — host to the closed-door negotiations in Addison, Texas — they raised awareness that hundreds of international trade ministers and corporate lobbyists are discussing deals that could restrict Internet freedom, reduce access to life-saving medicines and encourage American companies to move more jobs overseas. TPP, they warned, has the power to end "Buy American" policies and weaken environmental law.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Where is labor?" said CWA Local 6215 Executive Vice President Nancy Hall. "We always build the table. We make the chairs. But we're not allowed to sit there and partake in the discussions. No one there was speaking on our behalf."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">During a Dallas area telephone town hall meeting, CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings noted that U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials had access to the texts and proposals, but "workers who face the loss of their livelihoods and communities that face economic downturn are denied any input."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">About 95 CWA members joined their progressive partners, like the Citizens Trade Campaign and the Sierra Club, in protesting against what stands to be the largest free trade agreement in the history of the United States. TPP now includes Chile, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam and Singapore, but Canada, Mexico and Japan also want to join.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Later, activists crashed the conference gala, taking the podium to present US Trade Representative Ron Kirk with their "<a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=uR2mYFokGduaUMr8bozNIgbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Corporate Power Tool Award</a>" — a fake honor Kirk almost accepted if it wasn't for the intervention of his Secret Service minders.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">And <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=cBt38TiWw%2BfAUfj0Ab8Jbwbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">other protesters succeeded</a> in replacing hundreds of rolls of toilet paper throughout the hotel with a more informative variety.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The next round of talks is scheduled to be held in San Diego in early July.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"They have kept it so under wraps that no one knows about TPP," said Herb Keener of CWA Local 6215. "We need to start hammering it home and let people know there's another negotiation. We have three months to be on our toes. Let's educate them. That's our job. We have to get it out when no one else will."</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story3" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA State Workers Strike Tentative Deal with Gov. Christie</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In a fight with the most anti-union governor in their history of their contract, CWA New Jersey state workers successfully preserved the integrity and enforceability of decades of collective bargaining.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">During the year-long negotiations, CWA — representing about 60,000 public workers statewide — boldly withstood a barrage of attacks at the bargaining table and struck a tentative deal, which now must be ratified by CWA members. Republican Gov. Chris Christie's administration had sought more than 90 concessions from the union, eliminating significant chunks of their agreement.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"It is a lean economic agreement in lean times, but it is a robust agreement when it comes to collective bargaining, enforceability, and unity," the bargaining team wrote in a letter to members.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"As you will see, when you read over the final bargaining report, we did not allow the administration to divide us between those earning below $55,000 and those earning above, or between those who work at state colleges and those who don't, or between intermittent workers and full time workers. As you will see, we stood up to all of the worst language demands and did not allow the administration to cover our contract with 'for information purposes only' or whether or not something is left to the 'discretion' of management or the governor. A contract is a contract and Governor Christie knows what every other governor before him has learned: With CWA, if we make a deal, we will live up to it and when you make a deal, we will insist that you live up to it too."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In the beginning, the governor came into negotiations demanding a 3.5 percent rollback in salary and the elimination of all annual step increases and no across the board increases for the life of the contract.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">By the end of the negotiations, CWA achieved the continuation of all annual step increases, as well as small, additional across-the-board increases in the third and fourth year of the agreement.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA members have been working without a contract since July 1.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story4" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Nine New York Mayors Oppose Verizon's Big Cable Deal</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The secretive, anti-competitive deal between Verizon Wireless and the nation's four leading cable companies will hurt economic development, diminish job creation, lead to higher prices with fewer options, and grow the digital divide, nine upstate New York mayors said Wednesday.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, the mayors urged the agencies to "examine the impact of this transaction on competition and consumer choice, and ensure that our communities are not left behind."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Under the proposed deal, Verizon Wireless and major cable companies would market each other's products, allowing them to offer a "quadruple play" of video, Internet access, voice, and wireless service that would essentially eliminate competition. Verizon Wireless would also pay $3.9 billion to buy large segments of the wireless spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Bright House Networks.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">As a result, the proposed deal would deter any expansion of Verizon's high-speed fiber-optic FiOS network, killing thousands of jobs and widening the digital divide. Though FiOS is widely available in New York City and affluent suburbs, the agreement would remove any incentive for Verizon to provide high-speed service to the state's other urban centers — cutting people of color and low-income communities off from the opportunities that accompany high-speed Internet.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"As you are well aware, high-speed broadband is critical to economic development and job creation, as well as improvements in health care, education, public safety, and civic discourse which are so essential to communal life," the mayors wrote in the letter. "The economic health of our cities and our upstate region depends upon access to the same first-rate communications infrastructure available to the New York City metropolitan region and the suburban communities that ring our cities."</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The letter was signed by Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner, Albany Mayor Gerald D. Jennings, Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan, Kingston Mayor Shayne R. Gallo, Elmira Mayor Susan Skidmore, Cortland Mayor Brian Tobin, Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri and Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilla.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story5" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA-TU Begins Bargaining</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 250px; float: left; font-size: 10px; margin-right: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="500" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5112/7217497672_b1fce9cde9.jpg" alt="T-Mobile newspaper ad" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA newspaper ad about T-Mobile bargaining in Connecticut.</p></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Bargaining continued for a first contract for 15 CWA-TU technicians at T-Mobile USA in Connecticut.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">During bargaining, CWA Senior Director <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=OptJ2m/fdJbnsilteiPuWVlBVOFS1XGb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">George Kohl stated</a>, "We have been hard at work for 9 months and should be able to move forward, engage in significant dialogue and hopefully resolve some critical issues." </p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">But T-Mobile USA continues to stall negotiations, hiring lawyers and consultants whose mission is union avoidance. As bargaining got underway, CWA placed newspaper ads asking why Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile treats its German workers with respect and its U.S. workers with disdain.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In Germany, T-Mobile just negotiated a two-year agreement, which includes a 6.5 percent wage increase, with 50,000 workers and their union, ver.di; negotiations are continuing for T-Mobile Systems workers in Germany as well.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story6" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA Locals Support the Fight Against Pediatric AIDS</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA locals contributed more than $253,000 to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in 2011, CWA Secretary-Treasurer Annie Hill reported. The PAF has been CWA's Charity of Choice for more than 20 years, and since that time, CWA locals have contributed nearly $7 million.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Hill thanked all locals that participated and noted that District 7 had the highest percentage of locals participating.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=UrCKwdkNOjNhblprDzmuQgbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Individual locals are honored with special awards</a> for their contributions.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Awards will be distributed at District meetings throughout the year.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story7" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">Federal Judge Overturns NLRB Rules to Ensure More Timely Elections</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">A federal judge threw out even the modest changes that the National Labor Relations Board approved last year to ensure that workers have fair and timely elections.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Last month, the U.S. Senate upheld the changes that would eliminate some of the stalling tactics that employers use, specifically, filing lawsuits to challenge the eligibility of workers to vote in a representation election. The rule changes postpone such challenges until after the vote. The Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit to overturn the rule, prompting the judge's ruling.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The judge based his decision on the fact that although there were three sitting members of the NLRB, which constitutes a quorum, the Republican member refused to participate in a final vote on the rule although he did write a dissenting opinion.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story8" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA Activists Stand Strong at AT&T</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 250px; float: left; font-size: 10px; margin-right: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="111" alt="AT&T_Local_9509" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7096/7217498022_2675d0b2e0.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">CWA Local 9509 members demonstrate in San Diego.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Below: AT&T Legacy members leaflet at AT&T service resellers.</p><img width="250" height="223" alt="AT&T_Legacy" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7217498202_57aba2cfa5.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><div style="line-height: 12px; width: 250px; float: right; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><i style="line-height: 13px; "><img width="250" height="345" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/7217498088_da60a3d8f1.jpg" alt="AT&T_District_4" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In Pontiac, Mich., members of Local 4123 mobilize against health care cuts.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Below: CWA techs in Norwalk, Conn., members of Local 1298, stand up for a fair contract.</p><img width="250" height="129" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7071/7217498656_d6506e4b87.jpg" alt="AT&T_Norwalk" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "></i></div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><i></i></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Mobilization is the word across CWA districts, where AT&T members are holding informational pickets, leafleting, wearing red and black, and standing up in solidarity to let management know we're serious about reaching a fair contract. Negotiations are continuing for separate contracts in District 1, AT&T East; District 4, AT&T Midwest; District 9, AT&T West, and Telecommunications and Technologies, AT&T Legacy.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Check out these photos, and more information at<a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=/ZGoUd3895sDnXhxlSF%2BMAbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">www.cwaatatt.com</a>.</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story9" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA and NAACP Fight Voter Suppression</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings and NAACP Texas President Gary Bledsoe are urging Texans to speak out about attacks on voting rights at the polls.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Confronting the most aggressive attempt to roll back ballot access in more than a century, <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=DcPQtB0UUia4ugaV7Y7HdQbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">Cummings and Bledsoe taped a radio ad</a>, which will run next week on minority stations, telling voters to be vigilant and know their constitutional right.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others died for their efforts to ensure that Americans of all colors have the right to vote," says Cummings in the radio spot. "It is time to exercise that right. In many states, new restrictions on our right to vote are being enacted. But for now Texas is not one of them. For the May 29th primary the voting rules remain the same. All you need to vote is a voter registration card."</p><h2 style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(109, 14, 15); clear: both; "><a name="story10" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; cursor: pointer; ">CWA Candidate Beat Incumbent Mayor</a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In a big victory for working families, CWA-supported candidate Dwayne Warren unseated incumbent Mayor Eldridge Hawkins, Jr., in Orange, N.J.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Despite Hawkins raising nearly six times more money than his three opponents combined, <a href="http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=qT/PA%2BTWnnJSyCPbjdWkUAbtrdcy5TLj" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 14, 15); cursor: pointer; ">voters last week chose Warren by more than 1,500 ballots</a>.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">"Working people won a big victory in a small town tonight," said Hetty Rosenstein, CWA New Jersey State Director. 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padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> “Nuestra investigación confirma lo que los defensores de los jornaleros en todo el país creen: la violencia y el acoso sexual experimentado por los jornaleros es tan común que algunas mujeres en el campo ven estos abusos como una condición inevitable del trabajo agrícola” , decía el reporte.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Alrededor de 630.000 de los tres millones de personas que se desempeñan haciendo trabajo agrícola de temporada son mujeres. El gobierno federal calcula que 60% de ellos no tienen permiso legal de estar en el país.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> “Es más fácil para los abusadores lograr impunes el acoso sexual cuando haya desequilibrio de poder, y ese desequilibrio de poder es particularmente descarado en el campo” , dijo a The Associated Press la autora del reporte, Grace Meng.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> El documento pide al Congreso que apruebe leyes que protejan a las mujeres inmigrantes que trabajan en el campo, y al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos que rechace reglas que alienten a las policías locales a reportar violaciones federales de inmigración.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> El reporte describe incidencias de violación, acoso, manoseo y uso de lenguaje vulgar contra mujeres, que aseguran que no suelen reportar los actos por temor a ser despedidas, o peor, deportadas.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Meng entrevistó 52 jornaleros y 110 abogados, trabajadores de servicio social, policías y miembros de la industria agrícola en Nueva York, Carolina del Norte, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Arizona, Pensilvania, Tenesí y el estado de Washington, pero se enfocó principalmente en California debido a que hay más jornaleros del campo.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Las mujeres que trabajan para contratistas son más vulnerables que quienes trabajan directamente para un agricultor, según el informe.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> “El objetivo de nuestro informe era demostrar que este era un problema nacional. Y mostrar las trabas gubernamentales existentes para reportar estos crímenes y abusos. Y para demostrar que es un problema de derechos humanos” , dijo Meng.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Mientras que estudios anteriores han dicho que hasta 80% de las mujeres que trabajan en el campo han sido acosadas o asaltadas, una abogada en el corazón de la región agrícola de California dice que su experiencia coloca la cifra más cercana a la mitad. Agregó que el problema existe en todos los negocios en que hay mujeres inmigrantes que quizá no tengan conocimiento del idioma inglés ni confían en las policías, aunque las granjas son los mayores empleadores por lo que los abusos son más frecuentes en ese ámbito.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Los casos rara vez son reportados a las autoridades, dijo Amparo Yebra de la organización sin fines de lucro llamada Red de Servicios de Preservación de la Familia Westside, en Huron, California.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> “Hemos tenido muchas quejas” , dijo Yebra. “La mayoría de las personas son trabajadores del campo, pero si tienen la oportunidad de abandonar el campo para trabajar en una tienda, algunos de los propietarios también sacan provecho de esas personas” .<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> El acoso sexual en el lugar de trabajo es ilegal en California, y según Bryan Little, de la Federación Agrícola de California, la Legislatura identificó esto como un problema universal. El grupo de afiliación de la federación, Servicios Laborales de Empleadores Agrícolas, ofrece prevención del acoso sexual y entrenamiento, el cual los empleadores deben proporcionar cada dos años a cualquier persona que trabaje como supervisor.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> “La agricultura es una industria importante en California, pero parece poco probable que aprueben esta ley sólo por el trabajo agrícola” , dijo Little. “Tienen que haber respondido a algo mayor en los lugares de trabajo” . </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><br style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; 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To unsubscribe from American Rights at Work action alerts, <a href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=vunm5f2qxcmxWd1vKvVHcWQxSBkJAZgD" target="_blank" style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">click here</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><font size="1" face="Arial" style="line-height: normal; "><br></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="628" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" bgcolor="#000000" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mZfMQeHTWyflr42gQVnrU8Tm3KRa2uYZ" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/images/e-action_network-header-eaction_final.jpg" alt="AFSCME e-Action Network" 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><table width="626" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="16" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kA%2B1b7Sp37wwOQpzLKxWxsTm3KRa2uYZ" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "><img height="410" border="0" width="240" align="right" alt="Support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act here: action.afscme.org/c/51/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4386" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/201205-pregnancy-callout.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>Dear AFSCME Sisters and Brothers,<br><br>Women represent nearly half of the workforce today, but many women who become pregnant face losing their job when requesting maternity accommodations.<br><br><b><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3tvQ5B4fHA9euA1I8YtuRMTm3KRa2uYZ" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">That's why I hope you'll ask your representative to co-sponsor the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act</a> </b>that was introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)—a bill that will ensure pregnant workers are able to maintain their jobs without limiting their ability to work and support their family.<br><br>Under this bill, pregnant women will be able to request reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions without the fear of being fired—a privilege which isn't included in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. These changes are long overdue, and we need to make sure the House passes this important bill.<br><br>Approximately 75 percent of women who enter the workforce will become pregnant at some point during their employment, and it's something that our workplaces should embrace. The problem is, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act that's currently law is more than 30 years old—when working mothers were a much smaller fraction of the workforce.<br><br><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=B2czUGnSEjw2dZA76EMlW8Tm3KRa2uYZ" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b>By urging your representative to support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act</b></a> you are helping protect women against discrimination and ensuring a safe and healthy work environment for all working mothers.<br><br>As AFSCME sisters and brothers, let's do our part and stand together to make sure that all working families are protected at the workplace, and that includes health and job security. <b>Click here to take action: <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WjTNT0MbJfkytdR1NdBmj8Tm3KRa2uYZ" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.afscme.org/pregnantworkers</a></b><br><br>In solidarity,<br><br>Chuck Loveless<br>Director, AFSCME Federal Government Affairs</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><br></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155104/chicago%27s_cracking_down_on_protests_but_nurses_union_still_planning_huge_rally_with_tom_morello?akid=8799.16102.42ALsL&rd=1&t=24">http://www.alternet.org/story/155104/chicago%27s_cracking_down_on_protests_but_nurses_union_still_planning_huge_rally_with_tom_morello?akid=8799.16102.42ALsL&rd=1&t=24</a> </div><div><br></div><div><table width="415px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19158?t=23&akid=8799.16102.42ALsL" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1314648231_picture10.png_640x297_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" border="0" align="left" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a></td><td><font color="white" style="line-height: normal; ">-</font></td><td valign="top"><p class="ecxheadline3" style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19158?t=24&akid=8799.16102.42ALsL" target="_blank" style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Chicago's Cracking Down on Protests but Nurses Union Still Planning Huge Rally with Tom Morello</a></font></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><font style="line-height: normal; ">G-8 leaders may seclude themselves at Camp David, but National Nurses United and groups will continue with their plans for a massive rally and protest on May 18 in Chicago. <a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19158?t=25&akid=8799.16102.42ALsL" class="ecxreadmore" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(202, 133, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; "><b>READ MORE</b></a></font></p><font style="line-height: normal; "><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); "><font style="line-height: normal; ">By Aaron Krager / AlterNet</font></p><p style="line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br></font></p></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><br><div style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(42, 42, 42);font-family:'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="line-height:normal"><font size="2">Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. 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