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<div dir="ltr"><div><ol><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">American Workers: Shackled to labor Lawþ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">VOTE RoseAnn DeMoro a Top 100 Healthcare Leader Today!þ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">ACTION ALERT! 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But<br>they're not the only ones. In speeches to workers and<br>testimony in Congress in the '80s and '90s, then-AFL-CIO<br>President Lane Kirkland repeatedly declared that union<br>members would be better served by "the law of the<br>jungle." Some union presidents agreed, including Richard<br>Trumka, who now heads the AFL-CIO. In 1987, Trumka<br>called for abolishing both the law's "provisions that<br>hamstring labor" and "the affirmative protections of<br>labor that it promises but does not deliver."<br><br>In other words, it's not just Mitt Romney who argues the<br>National Labor Relations Board - which interprets and<br>enforces labor law - does more harm than good.<br><br>That's in part because the National Labor Relations Act<br>(NLRA), as amended by Congress and interpreted by the<br>courts, bans or restricts labor's most effective<br>tactics. The occupations of workplaces that fueled<br>momentum for the NLRA, passed by Congress in 1935, are<br>now illegal under it. The aggressive strikes - shutting<br>down workplaces or even entire cities - that forged the<br>modern labor movement have largely been replaced with<br>strikes that are essentially symbolic. While anti-choice<br>groups can target Planned Parenthood by pressuring the<br>Komen Foundation not to fund it, and progressives can<br>hurt Rush Limbaugh by calling on advertisers to drop his<br>show, unions face unique legal restrictions on mounting<br>equivalent "secondary boycott" campaigns that spread a<br>struggle throughout a supply chain.<br><br>Of course, when Republican presidential candidates bash<br>the NLRB, it's for restricting business, not unions. On<br>paper, the NLRA actually commits the government "to<br>promote collective bargaining" and requires most<br>companies to recognize and negotiate with unions that<br>win elections. It made it illegal for companies to spy<br>on, threaten or retaliate against workers for union<br>activism or other "concerted activity."<br><br>But reality has proven to be a different story. "This<br>labor law is a scam," says Larry Cohen, president of the<br>Communications Workers of America. "It is garbage. ...<br>It's a fucking lie."<br><br>Getting around a failing law<br><br>During an organizing drive, managers can legally hold<br>mandatory anti-union meetings in which they predict that<br>unionization would shut down the company. Even when<br>workers win a union election, 52 percent of the time<br>they haven't won a union contract a year later, because<br>managers can legally sabotage union contract<br>negotiations by refusing to concede anything. If a union<br>contract is in place, once it's up for re-negotiation<br>managers can legally lock out union members, denying<br>them any work until they accept a worse contract or vote<br>out the union.<br><br>And companies don't restrict themselves to these legal<br>union-busting tactics. In 57 percent of union elections,<br>employers threaten to shut down the worksite. In 34<br>percent, they fire union activists. When a union<br>activist is illegally fired, it's difficult to prove<br>that the firing was retaliatory - and even if the<br>government sides with the union, generally the worst<br>that can happen to management is being forced to<br>reinstate the worker with back pay. This process often<br>takes years, which can be more than enough time to quash<br>an organizing campaign. Fred Feinstein, who served under<br>President Clinton as the NLRB's top prosecutor, says the<br>penalties available against employers "don't provide any<br>deterrence" for companies set on breaking a union.<br><br>Efforts to reform this legal imbalance have been failing<br>for decades. Where labor is succeeding, it's often in<br>spite of or outside of the law, not because of it. Major<br>unions have abandoned government-run elections in favor<br>of "comprehensive campaigns" that leverage some<br>combination of worker, consumer, media and political<br>pressure to extract agreements from companies not to<br>terrorize or stonewall. By blocking tracks, spilling<br>grain, and defying a restraining order in Longview,<br>Wash., members of the International Longshore and<br>Warehouse Union (with help from Occupy) beat back a<br>company's attempt to do their jobs without them. Other<br>labor organizations - like the National Domestic Workers<br>Alliance, or "workers' centers" - are growing and<br>achieving victories through activism without identifying<br>as unions at all.<br><br>"The majority of our work in Justice for Janitors was<br>trying to figure out how to negotiate around the<br>secondary boycott laws," says Stephen Lerner, the<br>architect of that campaign for the Service Employees<br>International Union. In the Justice for Janitors<br>campaign, labor law restricted the Service Employees<br>union (SEIU) from targeting building owners, even though<br>they - rather than the contractors who technically<br>employed the janitors - were the real decision-makers.<br><br>Some of labor's dramatic victories in recent years have<br>come from organizations that, by choice or necessity,<br>operate outside of the protections and prohibitions of<br>labor law. Longtime farm worker Gerardo Reyes works for<br>one such organization, the Coalition of Immokalee<br>Workers (CIW). The Florida-based group doesn't identify<br>itself as a union, it doesn't seek recognition as one by<br>management or by the government, and it doesn't<br>negotiate union contracts. But CIW has extracted "Fair<br>Food" agreements from the growers who directly employ<br>farm workers. CIW has won and defended agreements with<br>the growers by pressuring - and sometimes boycotting -<br>well-known companies at the other end of the supply<br>chain. In February, following a multi-year campaign, CIW<br>achieved an agreement with Trader Joe's under which the<br>company will only buy tomatoes from growers following<br>"Fair Food" rules.<br><br>For farm workers under CIW agreements, says Reyes, "it<br>is better as it is right now" than it would be under the<br>NLRA. "Would we be better off if workers in Florida or<br>in the entire nation were covered? It's hard to tell,<br>because that's not our reality ... so we just work with<br>what we have."<br><br>A sobering debate<br><br>Others argue that stripping away labor law would leave<br>unions far worse off - not because current law removes<br>the need for aggressive worker activism, but because<br>withdrawing the formal protection for union activity<br>would make such activism much harder to pull off.<br><br>"If we took away the NLRA right now," says Cornell<br>University Labor Education Director Kate Bronfenbrenner,<br>labor "would lose the protections that they do have when<br>employers try to break unions." While harshly critical<br>of the current labor law regime, Bronfenbrenner suggests<br>that labor leaders may use it as a scapegoat in an era<br>of declining unionization. "It is not like unions are<br>using the power they have" under current law, says<br>Bronfenbrenner, who thinks labor should aggressively<br>build coalitions, mount anti-corporate campaigns and<br>nurture workplace activism.<br><br>Yet the fact is, if a union wanted to test its luck with<br>fewer legal restrictions on strikes and boycotts and no<br>legal right to recognition or negotiations, it could do<br>so right now by legally dissolving itself and<br>re-constituting as something more like the CIW.<br>Historian and New Labor Forum editor-at-large Steve<br>Fraser argues that the downside of the NLRA may be less<br>in the explicit restrictions it enforces than in the way<br>its existence has "locked the trade union movement into<br>a juridical way of proceeding" and made it "doubt other<br>tactics."<br><br>The law is unlikely to change, argues Lerner, as long as<br>politicians "think the consequence of not having labor<br>law reform is there's no conflict" with the powers that<br>be (both corporate and political). "We're more likely to<br>get labor law reform if we're out there mass organizing<br>the private sector and demonstrating the need." To fix<br>the law, he argues, we need conditions like the ones<br>that birthed it: hundreds of thousands of workers<br>pushing against - and beyond - the limits of current law<br>by organizing, occupying or going on strike. It takes<br>"ammunition," says Lerner, "to prove ... there's a crisis<br>that needs to be fixed."<br><br>ABOUT THIS AUTHOR<br>Josh Eidelson is a freelance writer and a contributor at<br>In These Times, The American Prospect, Dissent, and<br>Alternet. After receiving his MA in Political Science,<br>he worked as a union organizer for five years. His<br>website is <a href="http://www.josheidelson.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.josheidelson.com</a>. Twitter:<br>@josheidelson E-mail: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.<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 height="20"> </td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><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/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa4/1918320330/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: none; "></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; "><h4 style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; ">RoseAnn DeMoro Nomination for 11th Year of the "<em>Modern Healthcare </em>Top 100" list</span></h4><h4 style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; "><strong style="line-height: 19px; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; ">Please vote for her and ask friends and colleagues to join you!</span></strong></h4><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa5/1918320330/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Show your support for National Nurses United leader RoseAnn DeMoro here</a></strong></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa5/1918320330/VEsF/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img align="left" alt="RAD Modern Healthcare Nominee" height="240" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7178164440_4d1e7dfe88_m.jpg" width="205" style="border: none; "></a><strong>She's made the list for</strong> <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa2/1918320330/VEsC/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">10 years in a row</a>, and this is great prestige for our organizations and a well-deserved recognition for <strong>RoseAnn</strong>. So please be sure to vote and ask friends, coworkers, and others to join you in voting for RoseAnn DeMoro.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Since NNU was founded in December 2009, from the affiliation of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, former United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association, <strong>NNU has been one of the fastest-growing organizations in the U.S.</strong> winning representation for 11,000 RNs at 24 hospitals in nine states. Today, NNU represents more than 170,000 RNs.<br><br>Additionally, NNU has been a leader in sponsoring and achieving landmark patient reforms, such as nurse-to-patient ratios and limits on managed care abuses, winning record improvements for direct-care RNs, and campaigning for the most far-reaching healthcare reform to expand Medicare to cover everyone.<br><br><strong>Currently, NNU is campaigning for a change in national priorities, including a tax on Wall Street financial speculation to raise needed revenue for jobs, healthcare, education, housing, and other human needs</strong>, a Main Street Contract for America.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa3/1918320330/VEsD/" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Please vote for RoseAnn DeMoro today!</a></strong></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong>RELATED INFORMATION:</strong></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa0/1918320330/VEsA/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Read this article about NNU's May 18 Rally in Chicago</a><br>By: <em>Modern Healthcare</em></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfa1/1918320330/VEsB/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Watch and share this video about NNU's May 18 Rally in Chicago</a><br>By: <em>Modern Healthcare</em></p><h4 style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(0, 110, 18) !important; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; ">In case you missed RoseAnn on the Bill Moyer's Show...</span></h4><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/6c0b0c38/ac40fff/71256743/1685dfbe/1918320330/VEsO/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><strong>Watch and Share this VIDEO: Bill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax</strong></a><br><br>In an interview aired nationally on PBS earlier this month, <strong>legendary journalist Bill Moyers interviewed RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of 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>. 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color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" style="line-height: normal; "><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></font></font></font></font></div><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">Right now there is a proposal in the New Jersey Legislature to increase the state minimum wage to $8.50 for all workers.</span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">We at CATA, the Farmworkers' Support Committee, support this legislation, as it would directly affect many of our members. While $8.50 is not a living wage, it still would make a positive difference in the lives of farmworkers and all low-wage workers around the state.</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">We recently received notice that the bill will be voted on in the Assembly <b>TOMORROW, May, 24!</b><br></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">The bill number is Assembly Bill A2162. You can read it at <a href="http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/A2500/2162_I1.HTM" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/A2500/2162_I1.HTM</a></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">Please call your assemblyman/woman and urge them to vote <b>YES</b> on the bill. </span></font></font></font></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">The message becomes stronger if they hear from their own constituents. You can look up your assembly representative at <a href="http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp</a></span><span style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "></span></a></span><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">. <br></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">Sample Script:</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">"Hi, my name is __________. I'm calling from (city/town; mention an organization if you represent one or are a member of one). I'm calling to ask Assemblyman/woman ________ to vote YES on Assembly Bill 2162. This bill would raise the minimum wage to $8.50 and benefit working people all over New Jersey. Thank you."</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">Thank you for all your support! Sigue la lucha!</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font></div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="line-height: 17px; "></font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">CATA</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; ">El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas / Farmworkers' Support Committee</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://www.cata-farmworkers.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">www.cata-farmworkers.org</a><br></span></font></div></font></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/933486/men_move_into_%22women%27s_jobs%2C%22_even_though_there_are_no_high-paying_%22women%27s_jobs%22/#paragraph2">http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/933486/men_move_into_%22women%27s_jobs%2C%22_even_though_there_are_no_high-paying_%22women%27s_jobs%22/#paragraph2</a>
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); ">Rooted in history. Redefining our future. Some people think unions are a thing of the past. AFSCME is proving them wrong. Find out how in the Spring 2012 issue of:<br style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sFGFg2t0YE1ayqb4fualiduyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/news/publications/newsletters/works/spring-2012" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">AFSCME WORKS »</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><br><img height="5" width="5" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#dddddd" colspan="3"><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><img height="5" width="5" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"><img height="29" border="0" width="44" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/afscme_enews_star.gif" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 164, 78); font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jRON7MfcHUIIjRkshkvyXb8a38wuZgV6&url=http://www.afscme.org/convention" target="_blank" style="line-height: 23px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 164, 78); cursor: pointer; ">AFSCME Convention</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%" style="line-height: 15px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0.2em; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PQEh9mKYdwwZqtEYl1aBVduyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/convention" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img height="125" border="0" width="125" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/enews-1205-losangeles.jpg" alt="" style="border: none; display: block; "></a></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="8" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); ">Nearly 5,000 AFSCME delegates will convene this summer in Los Angeles to set the union’s course for the next two years. <br style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Q3XMHOAuzE2eCTJOIPmOftuyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/convention" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">Learn More »</a></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); "></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><br><img height="5" width="5" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#dddddd" colspan="3"><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><img height="5" width="5" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"><img height="29" border="0" width="44" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/afscme_enews_star.gif" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 164, 78); font-weight: bold; "><span style="line-height: 23px; ">Benefits Corner</span></div></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%" style="line-height: 15px; padding-top: 6px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9xcIz7NMI9oiv5aR%2BymATduyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/members/advantage/health-services/health-savings" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img height="125" border="0" width="125" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/201205-enews-1205-healthcare.jpg" alt="Union Plus Health Savings Program" style="border: none; display: block; "></a></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="8" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); "><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9Iu/VQu1i7x4oXN1OWnNPNuyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/members/advantage" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">AFSCME Advantage</a></div>You want the best care when it comes to your family's health. AFSCME members and their families (including parents) can reduce out-of-pocket expenses with the Union Plus Health Savings Program.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vgwmo6e7rFcnARXBsU4BmNuyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/members/advantage/health-services/health-savings" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">Find out more »</a></div></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=/Vce%2B5za0KoLyHPNZOvNFduyLp4knHYp&url=https://afscme.imagepointe.com/afscme/default.aspx?p%3Dviewitem%26amp%3bitem%3DAFS427%26amp%3bsubno%3D%26amp%3bshowpage%3D1%26amp%3bsubcat%3D" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img height="125" border="0" width="125" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/201205-moisture-management-AFS427_rg.jpg" alt="AFSCME Moisture Management Shirt" style="border: none; display: block; "></a></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="8" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 88, 144); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Kv6jL1iqo3vgg2QIt0RZ4b8a38wuZgV6&url=https://afscme.imagepointe.com/afscme/default.aspx" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">AFSCME Store</a></span><br style="line-height: 17px; ">Summer is right around the corner. Order an AFSCME Moisture Management T-Shirt and work out in style this summer.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=T7vDHnIoDlJ82URZ0hlGJduyLp4knHYp&url=https://afscme.imagepointe.com/afscme/default.aspx?p%3Dviewitem%26amp%3bitem%3DAFS427%26amp%3bsubno%3D%26amp%3bshowpage%3D1%26amp%3bsubcat%3D" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">Shop AFSCME »</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="15" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="215" valign="top" style="padding-top: 16px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#dddddd" width="215" style="line-height: 15px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="6"><img height="1" border="0" width="15" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td style="padding-bottom: 8px; "><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font-weight: bold; ">The Main Street Moment</div></td><td rowspan="6"><img height="1" border="0" width="15" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 7px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XPdLJOGyXkft%2BWLZ6/5as9uyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.powells.com/partner/36647/biblio/9781568587219" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img height="100" border="0" width="100" align="absMiddle" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/201205-enews-1205-book-100px.jpg" alt="Main Street Moment" style="border: none; display: block; margin-left: 40px; "></a></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#dddddd" width="100%" style="line-height: 15px; "><tbody><tr><td><div style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); ">A new book by Pres. Gerald W. McEntee and Sec.-Treas. Lee A. Saunders. AFSCME's leaders argue that the response to the unprecedented attacks on the rights of workers amid growing income inequality in the United States has triggered something extraordinary: the Main Street Moment. The book is the definitive manifesto for progressives and working people who know that America can only be transformed if we all stand united.<br style="line-height: 13px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GtX2HiV57a4IjRkshkvyXb8a38wuZgV6&url=http://www.afscme.org/news/publications/newsletters/works/spring-2012/afscmes-mcentee-and-saunders-release-book-this-spring" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; ">Find out more »</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 7px; "><img height="19" border="0" width="185" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/afscme_enews_sb_divider.gif" style="display: block; "></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 8px; "><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font-weight: bold; ">From the Leadership</div></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#dddddd" width="100%" style="line-height: 15px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0.2em; "><img height="66" border="0" width="50" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/afscme_enews_mcentee.jpg" style="display: block; "></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="7" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font-weight: bold; ">Gerald W. McEntee, President<br style="line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nD3nBfKQq5/gd7zC2VXMp9uyLp4knHYp&url=http://www.afscme.org/news/publications/newsletters/works/spring-2012/the-good-fight" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.4; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 88, 144); cursor: pointer; ">"The Good Fight" »</a></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0.2em; "><img height="66" border="0" width="50" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/afscme_enews_saunders.jpg" style="display: block; "></td><td><img height="1" border="0" width="7" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4002/c/51/images/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block; "></td><td valign="top"><div style="line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font-weight: bold; ">Lee A. 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"></a><br><span style="line-height: 13px; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=hjPGwlV8smBQR4oNVO9SNdNWdBprrMhC" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">All right, class: Compare and<nobr style="line-height: 13px; ">contrast—Romney/Ryan</nobr> Republican budget and progressive “Budget for All.”</font></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Ironclad collective bargaining rights for all workers would fix America’s ailing economy and create millions of jobs because of demand-led growth, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen told a forum at the Center for National Policy.<br><br><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=M9lr2UYuhoWk4TYZUWz9Z9NWdBprrMhC" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Read more and comment</font></b></a><b><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">.</font></b> <img src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/navy_arrow.jpg" alt=""></span></span></p><hr width="30%" color="#cccccc" align="left"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/button_most-recent-blog-posts_225.jpg" alt=""></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif"> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=tCiAd0MT9q5q/H92kQLbXtNWdBprrMhC" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">Romney/Ryan Budget’s for 1%, Not for All</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif"> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=7qLNcVfqiWt9lgguCwo1C6UAy8q/QaXV" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); 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font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">Fracking Exposes Workers to High Levels of Silica and Other Health Hazards</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif"> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=TgjJMPoDSkt/HMSVuzMQddNWdBprrMhC" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">Philip Levine, Working Person’s Poet Laureate, Bids Adieu</strong></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif"> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=sTKaYaaFV59Wu4LOh3tzWNNWdBprrMhC" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; 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</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/19357?t=11&akid=8833.16102.hpWooq" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1337370048_screenshot20120518at3.40.11pm.png_640x429_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" align="left" border="0" style="border: none; "></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/19357?t=12&akid=8833.16102.hpWooq" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution</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); ">In this excerpt from the new book "Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America," Michelle Chen looks at young workers from Egypt to Wisconsin. <a class="ecxreadmore" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19357?t=13&akid=8833.16102.hpWooq" 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 Michelle Chen / The New Press</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); "><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" width="626" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><table width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=4wGgjvrOX04wBsRprYsEfHvbRdCQGYTs" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/aflcionowblog_700x100.jpg" alt="" style="border: none; "></a></td></tr><tr><td><table width="700" cellpadding="13" border="0" align="left" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b>May 21, 2012</b></span></span></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" border="0" align="right" style="line-height: 17px; width: 22px; height: 38px; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=p4f5hRKIEgV0kEYBWJtUhnvbRdCQGYTs" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="http://www.aflcio.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/aflcio/blog/organizing-bargaining/nlrb-issues-complaint-against-verizon-over-firings/342671-1-eng-US/NLRB-Issues-Complaint-against-Verizon-Over-Firings.jpg" title="Verizon rally" alt="Verizon rally" style="border: none; "></a><br><span style="line-height: 13px; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=zELw4%2Btn0vrsBHvxodNcyXvbRdCQGYTs" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against Verizon for firing and disciplining workers after a two-week strike in August</font></a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Thousands of National Nurses United (NNU) activists and others called for a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street in a massive demonstration in Chicago. Said NNU co-President Karen Higgins, “It is time for Wall Street to start paying back what they owe the rest of the country.” <br><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=iVBpuOhSJLUaBrGYZ%2BCunnvbRdCQGYTs" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><b><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Read more and comment</font></b></a><b><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">.</font></b> <img alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/navy_arrow.jpg"></span></span></p><hr width="30%" color="#cccccc" align="left"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/button_most-recent-blog-posts_225.jpg"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=B6uJEkhY3raKw0boyzUwn3vbRdCQGYTs" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; 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