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Welcome to United Aerospace Workers Local 887 web site!
Our
Local represents the people who put America on the moon. We built the Space Shuttle fleet, its main engines, and
sections of the International Space Station. We build a variety of satellites, and aircraft.
Visit the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to view the many air and space vehicles on
display. There is a good chance Local 887 had something to do with their construction or flight testing.
In addition to representing a wide variety of skills at Boeing, we are proud of
our members at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne that build rocket engines for the Space Shuttle Fleet and Delta
rockets and of our cafeteria professionals at Eurest.
Our hope is that this website will keep our members informed as well as create interest and provide
information to those who would like to build a union in their workplace. As you can see, you don't have to build cars
and trucks to be a member of the International Auto, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, (UAW)
Aerospace workers! I thought the UAW was autoworkers!
In fact the UAW represents a wide variety of working people.
There are thousands of organizations, each with a specific purpose or goal. There are so many
reasons why one should consider becoming part of an organization he or she believes in.
We are proud of our long history, lifting workers from poverty and helping to create
what is now known as the middle class.
Unions are the people who brought you the weekend!
Thanks for stopping by and learning about Local 887 and the UAW.
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UAW members who worked at the following: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Atomic International Los Angeles, Canoga Park Facility
(Van Owen Bldg.), Desoto Avenue Facility, Downey Facility PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK FOR COMPENSATION INFORMATION
RNC Tax Attack Goes Too Far An RNC Web ad claims Democrats would tax ordinary wheelchairs. Not true.
New GI Bill to give vets $78 billion in tuition benefits
CPR Administers Bad Facts, Again The group says premiums could nearly double for those who buy their own insurance. Experts
we consulted disagree.
Walmart's War on Workers Video
Be a 'born-again American'
Haiti is a scene of unimaginable devastation and human tragedy today.
Please do all you can to help Haitians survive Tuesday’s massive earthquake by donating to one of the
service organizations at right.
I know this is a tough time for many of you. But we show our true character by helping those in greater need
than ourselves even when it is hard.
Union members and other working family activists are the most giving, selfless people I know.
Can the people of Haiti count on you today?
Thousands of Haitians may have died, and no one knows how many remain trapped in rubble. Haiti,
already the poorest nation in this hemisphere, desperately needs medical services, food, water, shelter—everything.
Please do your part by making a donation today to one of the organizations at right. Just click to
give.
Thank you for your life-saving generosity.
In solidarity,
Arlene Holt Baker AFL-CIO Executive Vice President
P.S. National Nurses United activated its nationwide disaster relief network and has recruited more than
3,400 nurse volunteers to assist Haitians. Urban search-and-rescue (US&R) teams made up of Fire Fighters from across
North America are already on their way to provide rescue operations, medical care and other emergency services. The Steelworkers
and other unions are contributing and raising funds to help. For updates on union efforts, follow the AFL-CIO Now blog.
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Southern California Transit Forum Friday, February 5th, 2010 from 8am to 7pm Chapman University - Paul
and Daranne Folino Theater 283 North Cypress Street in Orange
Leaders from government, business and labor unions will join transit advocates and community members
in a daylong summit Feb. 5 at Chapman University in Orange to seek solutions to an unprecedented statewide financial crisis
facing public transportation.
Topics that will be covered include legislative and legal options for preserving transit funding,
proposed ballot initiatives, federal funding opportunities, economic impacts and stakeholder perspectives and information
on the California high-speed rail.
Click here to learn more.
To register for the free event, call (714) 560-5939 or email pwandelear@octa.net today.
**If you are unable to attend in-person, the Transit Forum will also be live-streamed
on the web at www.chapman.edu/law.
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Don't tax our health care!
The Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders will be having discussions during the next few weeks to iron
out differences in the health care reform bills that have been passed by the House and Senate.
These bills contain many important features that have long been supported by the UAW, including provisions that will:
- Extend affordable health care coverage to most Americans.
- Prohibit abusive practices by insurance companies, such as denying coverage to individuals because
of pre-existing conditions.
- Contain health care costs by reforming provider payment and delivery practices, and by establishing
exchanges to facilitate cost effective coverage for individuals and small businesses.
- Help employers and Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs) continue coverage for pre-Medicare
retirees.
The UAW and our progressive allies believe it is critically important that Congress act now to enact health care reform
legislation that includes these key provisions.
At the same time, we believe it is essential that health care reform be financed through progressive measures that require
employers and wealthy individuals to pay their fair share. We continue to strongly oppose the dangerous provisions in
the Senate bill that would impose an excise tax on health care plans. This would force many plans to eliminate benefits
and increase co-pays and deductibles for working families.
Call Congress Wed., Jan. 13: (877) 323-5246
Please call your representative and senators to send them a loud, clear message that we want Congress to act now to pass
health care reform legislation. But we also want Congress to reject the Senate provision that would impose an
excise tax on health care plans.
You can use the following toll-free number to place your calls: (877) 323-5246.
The labor movement is organizing a national call-in day for Wed., Jan. 13. So it is especially important that we help generate
phone calls on that day.
Thanks in advance for your efforts.
Spins Of The Week
Rewarding Failure Source: Public Citizen, Rewarding Failure
In a stunning report that will give every fired Joe and failed small businessman pause, a new Public Citizen
review shows that the CEOs of 10 failed Wall Street firms were paid an average of $28.9 million per year in the years leading
up to the Wall Street meltdown.
"Fat cat compensation has nothing to do with good corporate performance," said Public Citizen President Robert
Weissman about the report entitled Rewarding Failure. "These CEOs were exorbitantly compensated for driving their companies off the cliff. At a minimum, Congress
must ensure that corporate leaders are paid for long-term performance, not short-term illusions."
With Wall Street compensation slated to top $150 billion this year it looks like little has changed with the
tails you win, heads you win culture on Wall Street. The House recently passed a bill giving shareholders a "say on pay."
Now it's time for responsible shareholders to step up and clamp down for the good of us all.
Labor’s New Economic Recovery Agenda Focuses on Green Job Creation
On Wednesday, just one day before President Obama held a national jobs summit in Washington DC, hundreds of
union members, leaders and national experts came together in Sacramento for the first-of-its-kind Economic Recovery Summit,
to develop a new plan to rebuild California’s economy, reinvigorate job growth, restore vital services and revive the
middle class. The five-point Economic Recovery Agenda focuses on creating jobs through infrastructure projects, investing
in workforce training, enacting a Middle-Class Bill of Rights, repairing the state safety net and developing and implementing
a sustainable economic vision.
Read the full Economic Recovery Agenda at http://bit.ly/7E4rSR
The Summit focused on the enormous opportunities to take advantage of emerging industries like
green energy. “With the right vision, we can address climate change and energy independence in a way that creates new
jobs today and builds new industries tomorrow,” said labor expert Harley Shaiken at the Summit.
Find more highlights from the Summit at http://bit.ly/7KbF7U
Training for Lead Organizers and Campaign Directors in Southern California
The Los Angeles and Orange Counties Organizing Committee is sponsoring a unique two-part training program
on organizing and campaign management for current and aspiring organizing and campaign directors.
The first session will take place February 11th and 12th at the UCLA Labor Center, and will focus on techniques
and methods of accountability that will help sharpen campaign and staff management skills. Limited space is available, and
the deadline to register is December 31st.
For more information and registration materials, visit http://bit.ly/7ukz0B.
A USA Today analysis finds that the stimulus is working and is having "a significant
impact on the economy." A survey of 33 states and Puerto Rico found that 338,000 jobs have been created or saved so far this year.
HEALTH CARE -- FIFTY-FIVE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE 'STEADFASTLY OPPOSED' TO A
PUBLIC OPTION ARE CURRENTLY ON MEDICARE:
Yesterday, the office of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) released an internal study showing that 151 members of Congress "currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer
health care -- Medicare." Of those 151 members, 55 are Republicans who also happen to be "steadfastly opposed [to] other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen." Included on Weiner's list are
anti-public option crusaders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Rep. Peter King (R-NY). Weiner of this study is to "point out some of the hypocrisy of this debate." "Even in a town known for hypocrisy," Weiner said in
a statement yesterday, "this list of 55 Members of Congress deserve some sort of prize. They apparently think the public option
is ok for them, but not anyone else." Back in July, Weexplained that the purpose iner, an outspoken proponent of single-payer health care reform, offered an amendment that would have given these 55 people a chance to end their own public option by eliminating
Medicare once and for all. According to Weiner, it was "put-up or shut-up time for the phonies who deride the so-called 'public option.'" Of course, no one voted for the measure. Yet now
"you have members of Congress thumping their chest how they’re against government health
care," Weiner noted, adding, "and yet when it's time for them to accept Medicare, they're like, 'Sign me up!'"
LEARN WorkFamily - The Labor
Project for Working Families has launched a FREE online labor education and resource network - LEARN WorkFamily
(www.learnworkfamily.org) - to help unions build family-friendly workplaces. This unique resource network features the nation's
only online database of contract language on work family issues such as family leave, childcare, elder care, flexible work
options, adoption, bereavement leave and much more. Register now for FREE at www.learnworkfamily.org to use the online contract language database. For more information, email info@working-families.org or call (510) 643-7088.
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Week of Action to Demand a Real Economic
Recovery for Working People September
24-October 1, 2009
ONE YEAR AGO Congress & the Federal Reserve bailed-out Wall Street and the insurers, claiming they were "too
big to fail." ONE YEAR LATER...
- Workers are losing their jobs, homes, healthcare, & retirement security
- The Bailed-Out Banks continue to award executive bonuses while refusing to finance jobs
and evicting renters and homeowners through foreclosures
- Corporations still “own” Congress & are continuing with “business
as usual” by blocking measures like health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act
- The G-20, an international group of powerful bankers and governments, is meeting in Pittsburgh
(9/24) to push for more of the same failed policies that created the economic crisis.
JOIN US FOR A WEEK OF ACTION TO DEMAND JOBS,
HOMES, HEALTH CARE, & A NEW ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
Jobs & the Unemployment Crisis:
- Stop layoffs and develop a “jobs creation program” to create millions of
good jobs in our communities
- Pass the Employee Free Choice and other measures to ensure worker dignity
- Prioritize the unemployment crisis, extending and expanding benefits, including access
to health care
Homes:
- Keep people in their homes; stop the foreclosures & evictions
- Fund affordable housing and community reinvestment
Health Care:
- Enact quality, public, affordable health care for all
A New Economy that Works for Everyone:
- Protect retirement security and pensions
- Fix our broken trade and immigration laws
- Support education and human needs
- Make corporations and the wealth pay a fair share of taxes.
- Break up the corporate giants & create a financial system that works for all
Join our growing coalition of workers, students & youth, people of faith, and community
members. On the anniversary of the bailouts, some will send members to Pittsburgh for the G-20 meetings while others
will take on banks and other corporate criminals in our own communities who have continued to make money while
the rest of us suffer.
We need to join together and build power and momentum through bold action in order
to transform our economy into something that works for all of us.
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When Congress reconvenes in September, the stage will be set for a historic battle over health care reform.
The House is expected to take up legislation reported by three committees that would:
-- Ensure that 97 percent of Americans have health insurance coverage.
-- Provide subsidies to ensure that coverage is affordable for working families.
-- Require employers to contribute to the cost of coverage.
-- Guarantee individuals choice of health care plans and physicians.
-- Prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions, or from charging exorbitant
premiums to individuals who are sick or older.
-- Establish a public plan option to provide competition for private insurance companies, thereby holding down costs.
-- Lower health care costs by eliminating the hidden tax of "uncompensated care," and by reforming the delivery
of health care and provider payments. -- Provide assistance to employers and Voluntary Employee Beneficiary
Associations (VEBAs) to help them continue coverage for early retirees.
-- Improve Medicare's prescription drug coverage for retirees.
-- Pay for health care reform through progressive taxes, NOT by taxing workers' health care benefits.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has reported a bill similar to the House legislation.
The UAW and a broad coalition of progressive organizations are strongly supporting the House health care reform bill and
the bill reported by the Senate HELP Committee. These bills would provide enormous benefits to working families, including
UAW members:
-- Workers would no longer have to fear the loss of health care coverage if they are laid off or their employers
go bankrupt.
-- Coverage for retirees would be strengthened and made more secure.
-- Individuals would be protected from discriminatory practices by insurance companies.
-- Health care costs would be lowered significantly, so premiums, copays and deductibles do not continue to escalate faster
than wages.
Not surprisingly, insurance companies and various right-wing groups are mounting a campaign to block health care reform.
To counter their dishonest, disruptive scare tactics, UAW activists need to join with our progressive allies in sending a
strong message to members of Congress that NOW is the time to pass genuine health care reform.
Please contact your representative and senators right away by calling: (877) 264-4226.
Urge representatives to vote for the House health care reform bill that has been reported by three committees. Tell
senators to support the legislation reported by the HELP committee.
Thanks for your efforts on this critically important issue!
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We Demand Real “Food with Integrity” from Chipotle
Over 16,000 of you
wrote to Chipotle CEO Steve Ells, demanding that Chipotle respect the rights of the farmworkers who pick their tomatoes. American
Rights at Work activists also made thousands of phone calls to Chipotle’s offices, and our Twitter petition was
the top performing petition of the month!
Thanks to the huge response, Chipotle even responded to our twitter petition. While their response wasn't great, we were able to get the conversation started, thanks to your help. The ongoing
fight for real "food with integrity" continues.
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CONSUMER CORNER: Check out the Companies that Do Well by Doing Good
Thompson Electric is a leading provider of electrical services in Ohio, and a leading business voice in support
of the Employee Free Choice Act. This exemplary employer collaborates with its employees, who are represented by the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and offers them advanced technical and safety training.
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EXPOSING THE ANTI-UNION NETWORK: Whole Foods CEO Working Against Employee Free Choice Act
Opposing Obama on health care reform. Working to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. Telling workers to "expand
into love" rather than join a union. It's all in a day's work for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.
» Read about Mackey's anti-worker
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TAKE ACTION: Stand Up For Rite Aid Warehouse Workers By Passing the Employee Free Choice Act!
Workers at Rite Aid’s Lancaster, CA, distribution center have been struggling for a union contract for
over a year. But under current labor law, the deck is stacked against them. If we want to stop employers like Rite Aid from
stalling negotiations for years and intimidating their workers without real consequences, we need to reform our laws.
» Tell Congress to pass the Employee
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NASA LAUNCHES HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REVIEW WEB SITE FOR PUBLIC
USE
WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting the public to make its voice heard as a panel of experts undertakes an independent
review of planned U.S. human space flight activities.
NASA has created a Web site for the Review of U.S. Human
Space Flight Plans Committee to facilitate a two-way conversation with the public about the future direction of the
agency's space flight programs. In addition to providing documents and information, the site will allow the public
to track committee activities, receive regular updates and provide input through Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, Flickr,
user-submitted questions, polls and RSS feeds. Additional features and content may be added as the committee's activities
continue.
"The human space flight program belongs to everyone," committee chairman Norman Augustine said. "Our
committee would hope to benefit from the views of all who would care to contact us."
Anyone may use the Web site
to submit questions, upload documents or comment about topics relevant to the committee's operations. The committee
will conduct public meetings during the course of the review. The first will be held June 17 in Washington, D.C. An agenda
for this meeting will be announced soon. Time will be set aside for public questions and comments to the committee
members. No registration is required to attend.
230 Economists Voice Support for Employee Free Choice
The Employee Free Choice Act is absolutely necessary to help workers rebuild the economy, according to a statement
signed this week by 230 economists from top institutions in 33 states.
The economists point to the erosion of working family incomes as a key factor in our economic crisis—and
the need for the freedom of workers to bargain collectively, without fear of management abuses, as key to recovery. "As economists,
we believe this is a critically important step in rebuilding our economy and strengthening our democracy by enhancing the
voice of working people in the workplace," the statement said.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/nm3kr7 to learn more.
Workers Make Their Voices Heard on Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes
Over the last two weeks, thousands of workers across the state have taken action to call for the end of these
unfair giveaways that would make a handful of wealthy companies that much richer at the expense of working families. More
than 1,000 workers participated in demonstrations, 1,100 signed the petition, 700 joined the Facebook group and 650 sent letters
to their legislators.
Additionally, 80 organizations have expressed their support to shut down these tax giveaways and use the money
to save jobs and vital services. The San Jose Mercury News, Riverside Press-Enterprise, Marysville Press-Democrat, Sacramento
Bee and San Diego Union-Tribune have all run editorials and opinion pieces calling for the end of the corporate
tax loopholes.
Check out the news coverage at http://tinyurl.com/l9phq8
Labor Speaks Out For National Healthcare Reform
This week, President Obama kicked off his campaign to reform our nation’s broken health care system.
According to the latest AFL-CIO health care survey, more than half of the 23,000 respondents said they cannot get the health
care they need at prices they can afford, a third report having to forego basic medical care because it costs too much, and
43 percent of those who have health insurance still can’t get the care they need at prices they can pay.
“Accessibility for all, high quality care and affordability are the building blocks of a new health
care system for America,” said AFL-CIO’s Arlene Holt Baker at the national health care reform rally yesterday
in Washington DC. “We demand no less, we will tolerate no less, we will accept no less.”
Learn more about why we need real healthcare reform now at http://tinyurl.com/kkbz3u
New Video Reveals Why Vets Need Employee Free Choice
This week, the LA County Federation of Labor released a new video featuring compelling and eloquent testimony
of veterans and the challenges they face in finding good jobs after they leave the service. Most are earning less now than
they were during their time in the military.
In the video, the veterans call on Senator Dianne Feinstein of CA to support The Employee Free Choice Act,
which would give them the right to join a union in the same way they joined the military - with their signature.
See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76T9fUoHxTU
FUNDING F-22 'NONSENSE': In a briefing to reporters
yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the efforts in Congress to restore funding for the F-22 fighter jet "a big
problem," and labeled the argument that the elimination of the program will threaten national security as "nonsense." Gates's
statement came after the House Armed Services Committee approved $396 million to continue the production of the F-22 on Wednesday,
over the Defense Department's objections. Gates originally proposed ceasing production of the F-22s at the current 187 planes,
but Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA), among other conservatives, argued that the elimination of the
planes would cause the loss of thousands of jobs. However, this is unlikely; the F-22 is just one of many projects that thousands
of defense industry employees work on. The Republicans' demand for the planes is also hypocritical, as Paul Krugman noted,
because "the very same Republican congressmen who were denouncing the stimulus, saying government spending never creates jobs"
are now saying that "cutting defense spending costs jobs." Conservatives also argue that de-funding the F-22 would weaken
national security.Yet, not a single mission flown in Iraq or Afghanistan
has used the F-22 and the planes have become increasingly costly to operate.
Screw That
Bulb:
05/29/2009
- 7:06am
Screw That Bulb: How
GE Is Plugging Into the Green Movement to Move Jobs and Advanced Technology to China
Save the environment … or save a U.S. job? That’s the choice General Electric is
forcing on U.S. consumers and its own
workers.
GE is promoting new, energy saving light bulbs known as compact fluorescents, or CFLs. These
bulbs last longer and use less energy than the typical incandescent bulbs found in most U.S. homes – but can cost up to 10 times the price. GE is asking consumers
and its employees to sign a pledge to “go green” and start purchasing the CFL light bulbs, which are imported
from China. The problem is that
each pledge leads to the loss of jobs in U.S.
lighting plants. GE is actually asking workers in its lighting plants to pledge to put themselves out of a job!
As a company, General Electric is synonymous with the light bulb: Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulbs built GE into the
global corporation it is today. But if GE has its way, it will no longer manufacture light bulbs in the United States. Since 1980, employment in GE lighting
has dropped by 68%. If everyone switched to the Chinese-made CFL bulbs, all U.S. plants would close. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The growth of “environmentally sustainable technology” was supposed to be a breakthrough on par with the discovery
of incandescent bulbs. Green manufacturing was supposed to stimulate our economy, not lead to further deindustrialization.
Cutting-edge products like the CFLs should lead to more jobs and profits. GE is making the profits … but it is
sending the jobs to China, a country known
for exploiting workers and polluting the environment. GE supported a European Commission ban on Chinese-made CFLs …
so CFLs bought in Europe are manufactured in Europe. But GE is refusing to invest in
advanced technology for its U.S. plants
so workers here can have a future too. Please join with us, the workers at GE lighting, to ask GE to manufacture green
in U.S. plants, so we all can benefit.
We shouldn’t have to choose between a clean environment or a pink slip for American workers. Sign our petition today.
LABOR -- RIGHT-WING
CORPORATE FRONT GROUP LAUNCHES 'NEWS' SITE TO SMEAR EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT:
Last Friday,
the Workforce Fairness Institute launched EFCA Wire, "a new 'news' site that's totally devoted to making the case against"
the Employee Free Choice Act. As The Progress Report has noted, the Workforce Fairness Institute is nothing more than a corporate
front group "founded by several longtime Republican operatives," and likely funded by anti-EFCA giants like Wal-Mart and Home
Depot. In a recent interview with Fox News's Glenn Beck, one of those operatives -- former Bush and McCain advisor Mark McKinnon
-- pushed the line that Employee Free Choice removes the secret-ballot option, a claim that even the conservative Wall Street
Journal editorial board has begrudgingly admitted is false. Therefore, it's no surprise that EFCA Wire's main purpose is to
promote yet another lie. According to the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, the site will place "a particular emphasis on the
damage [the Employee Free Choice Act] would allegedly do the economy." But estimates
by the Economic Policy Institute show that Employee Free Choice would actually
lead to higher wages, better benefits, and a more productive economy. On its first day, EFCA Wire's blatant dishonesty
was already apparent. One prominently placed link boasted, "The Hill: 74% Oppose EFCA." However, The Hill was merely reporting
on an anti-EFCA ad touting such skewed numbers. In fact, the most recent Gallup polling reveals that 53 percent of Americans support
a law to "make it easier for unions to organize workers" -- which is exactly what the Employee Free Choice Act does.

L.A. County Federation of Labor Launches On-Line Directory
of Services by Union Employers
LA Labor 411, a collaborative project of the Los Angeles County Federation of
Labor AFL-CIO and Senders Communication Group, today announced the launch of the on-line version of its guide to Southern
California union goods and services. Coming on the heels of its print version launch last summer, the on-line version of the
directory will make the listings for companies and organizations more accessible to everyone wanting to patronize union-related
products/services and union-preferred vendors. READ MORE >>
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Obama on: Defense
Health Care & The Economy
Neither Free Nor Fair: The Subversion of Democracy Under NLRB Elections contrasts what NLRB elections look like in the real
world with what happens in elections for public office.
Chasing Down Retirement
Working Without a Net. Working Americans and their families are operating on an economic high wire -- only one or two missteps
from a steep financial fall... more
Slactivism
$4.00+ a gallon big oil fact sheet
Jobs with Justice Update
How To Manage Your Debt
The War on Workers
“If
there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, want crops
without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful
roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and
physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and never will.” --
Frederick Douglass
New Link - Congress of California Seniors
Human Toll of a Pension Default
The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart

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