#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] New Era Windows Cooperative Is Open for Business in Chicago http://truth-out.org/news/item/16301-new-era-windows-cooperative-is-open-for-business-in-chicago Meet the takers: They took over their factory, they took on their bosses, they took the initiative to form a worker cooperative and today they’re taking the wraps off a brand-new worker-owned company: New Era Windows. It opened May 9 in Chicago. The workers in this story are members of the same workforce who, when they received word that their plant was about to be closed with no notice at what was then the Republic Windows and Doors factory in 2008, occupied their plant and became a cause celebre in a grim winter of mass layoffs. When they were laid off again in early 2012, by a second owner, they…http://www.twitpic.com/cqf5vx
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Help Save the U.S. Postal Service http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Help-Save-the-U.S.-Postal-Service Do you care about keeping post offices open, ensuring Saturday delivery for years to come and stopping proposals to lay off postal workers? Please sign a petition to support a bill that would end the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) pre-fund 75 years of retiree health care benefits. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) filed legislation to end this requirement. The legislation that forces the requirement, passed by Congress in 2006, is unprecedented, as no other private or public entity has to meet such a standard. That requirement is the key factor driving Postal Service deficits and defaults and has led to proposals to en…http://www.twitpic.com/cp9b1e
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Walker's WEDC a national embarrassment http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2013/05/walkers-wedc-a-national-embarrassment.html Gov. Walker ran on a promise to create 250,000 jobs in his first four years as Governor. Many economists argued that this goal was likely to be reached with little lifting from Gov. Walker due to natural upticks in the economy. Yet, more than halfway through Gov. Walker’s first term, he is spectacularly failing to meet his own job creation standards and his flagship “jobs agency” – the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) – has become a national embarrassment. WEDC’s mismanagement and incompetence falls squarely on the Walker Administration because it was the Governor’s brainchild to privatize the Department of…http://www.twitpic.com/cp1ks5
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 'Ultimate Soho Penthouse' Returns, Seeking .25 Million http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/23/ultimate_soho_penthouse_returns_seeking_1725_million.php#517692a2f92ea17d250226d7 Ah, penthouse 6S at 459 West Broadway, we meet again. At our last encounter (after several photo shoots), billionaire Leonard Stern had purchased this property for .25 million. Stern (who bought the apartment from high-profile recruiter Joseph B. Goldsmith at a bit of a discount from the .5 million asking price) is the man who built the Tribeca Grand and Soho Grand hotels and donated his name to NYU's Stern School of Business. At the time of his buy, we wondered whether he'd picked up the penthouse as just another trophy. Maybe, maybe not—but after two and a half years, the romance is winding down. The …http://www.twitpic.com/cngy7f
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEOS] Meet Mary Harris : Mother Jones! http://thegaiandragon.blogspot.com/2012/10/meet-mary-harris-mother-jones_30.html RELATED: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Joneshttp://www.twitpic.com/clx09j
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #TeaParty Green-led Brighton & Hove is world's first 'One Planet Living' programme city http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/04/18/green-led-brighton-and-hove-is-worlds-first-one-planet-living-programme-city/ Green politicians nationally are celebrating as Green-led Brighton & Hove City Council, the first Green-led council in the UK, became the world's first planned 'One Planet City'. The city's Sustainability Action Plan officially received independent accreditation from BioRegional for its plans to enable residents to live well within a fairer share of the earth's resources. BioRegional is an award winning charity with an international reputation for developing sustainable solutions. The Action Plan sets out how the city can meet all the international targets under BioRegional's recognised…http://www.twitpic.com/clhg78
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Activist puts out Occupy Central action plan http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1214699/activist-puts-out-occupy-central-action-plan Movement reveals a timetable to meet and consult supporters and experts on blockade An academic behind a plan to block roads in Central to fight for democracy said it remained to be seen whether organisers can reach a consensus with another pan-democratic alliance on demands for the 2017 chief executive election reform. University of Hong Kong associate law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting offered more details about his timetable for the plan at a street forum in Mong Kok yesterday. “I will meet the Alliance for True Democracy … I believe it will take some time to see whether we can reach consensus on the election reform p…http://www.twitpic.com/cjgswq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Students venture to Iceland for Model U.N. http://www.gazette.com/articles/school-152683-students-group.html A group of Colorado Springs School high school students can call the world their classroom. Nine members of the private school’s Model United Nations club traveled to Iceland in February for an international competition. “We were really lucky to have this opportunity,” said 18-year-old Jordan Murphy, a senior and treasurer of the club. “It’s tough to pick out a highlight.” Iceland was just one stop. CSS students compete in many Model U.N. events during the school year. Team members will compete closer to home next month. About 30 students are in the Model U.N. club each year. They meet during lunch and spend time outsid…http://www.twitpic.com/cedoi3
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Low-Income Tennesseans Resort To ‘Health Care Lottery’ For Coverage http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/25/1769351/tennessee-lottery-medicaid/ Twice a year, Tennessee holds a “health care lottery” that gives some hope to the uninsured residents in the state who can’t afford health coverage. Tennesseans who meet certain requirements — in addition to falling below a certain income threshold, they must be elderly, blind, disabled, or a caretaker of a child who qualifies for Medicaid — may call to request an application for the state’s public health insurance program, known as TennCare. The lottery is part of TennCare’s “spend down” program, which allows a resident’s income to be calculated after subtracting their medical costs from their tot…http://www.twitpic.com/ceemeu
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Meet ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. He provides significant funding to climate change denial organizations, is in charge of a corporation that considers oil exploration, extraction, and refining more important than your life. For his work, he received a raise in 2013 to .72 million along with a .59 million bonus.http://www.twitpic.com/ce5bb5