#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty High-Tech’s Sketchy Claims for More Foreign Workers http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/High-Tech-s-Sketchy-Claims-for-More-Foreign-Workers Why do Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Oracle want to hire foreign high-tech workers instead of qualified U.S. workers? They won’t admit it, but it is because they can—and do—pay them less. That’s why they are pushing so hard for a series of amendments from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that would remove provisions in the immigration bill under consideration that give qualified U.S. workers the first shot at those high-tech jobs. Not only do they want to shut the door on U.S. workers, they want to be allowed to import even more low-wage/high-tech workers under what is known as the H1B visa program. The Hatch amendment…http://www.twitpic.com/crv0b7
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Q&A: Thurston Moore on Chelsea Light Moving, Occupy Wall Street and the Future of Sonic Youth http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-thurston-moore-on-chelsea-light-moving-occupy-wall-street-and-the-future-of-sonic-youth-20130516 'Your crystal ball is about as clear as my crystal ball is' Ever since he and his wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon announced their split in late 2011, Thurston Moore has kept his mouth largely shut. “I wasn't doing any press whatsoever – I kind of embargoed that,” says Moore. “Personal issues are not something I talk about. I don't want to even think about it when it comes to media. It's not the place for it.” Moore says he doesn't even use his Twitter account. But he and his new, post-Sonic Youth band, Chelsea Light Moving, released their first album in Ma…http://www.twitpic.com/crv0y0
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Protesters Shut Down Wells Fargo Over ‘Fraudulent Foreclosures’ http://www.citywatchla.com/8br-hidden/5027-occupy-protesters-shut-down-wells-fargo-over-fraudulent-foreclosures Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration Wednesday that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los Angeles subcommittee that has been assisting homeowners fight what they consider are fraudulent foreclosures. About 80 activists, which included foreclosed homeowners, stood in front of the bank’s entrance for a half hour before joining the nearby May Day demonstration held by the Southern California Immigration Coalition. “Too many families are being thrown…http://www.twitpic.com/cp1w1y
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Vermont Yankee asked to pay 0,000 in 2014 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013304290022&gcheck=1 Every year, it seems, the Vermont Legislature looks for ways to tax, punish or shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Every year, Vermont Yankee fights them on it, sometimes in court. This legislative session has been remarkably free of talk about the Vernon plant. It’s as if the two warring parties have retreated to neutral corners to lick their wounds, amass their arsenal and plot their next move. The one exception this year is a little item in the 2014 budget bill. The state wants Vermont Yankee to pay 0,000 over the next four years to help the American Red Cross prepare an evacuation plan that includes…http://www.twitpic.com/cn0d26
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Babbitt and the Race to the Bottom http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Your-Turn/Babbitt-and-the-Race-to-the-Bottom In just about any small town that has lost a big factory, you'll hear it was the union's fault. I live in Mayfield, Ky., population about 10,000. A big Continental General Tire plant was our factory. It’s been gone for a half-dozen years. Some local merchants, hurting for customers, are still blaming the “greedy union,” United Steelworkers (USW) Local 665, for the plant’s demise. Nationwide, unions are handy scapegoats everywhere companies have shut factories and shipped production to low-wage countries. Never mind that over and over, American unions have done all they could to help keep their plants open. Why wouldn't they? Th…http://www.twitpic.com/cjfwzq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty House Passes Bill to Shut Down NLRB http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/House-Passes-Bill-to-Shut-Down-NLRB House Republican leadership rammed through a bill (H.R. 1120) earlier today that would effectively put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) out of business. The NLRB enforces rules established under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which protects the rights of workers to form unions, bargain collectively and have a voice on the job. RELATED: http://www.businessinsider.com/house-gop-retaliates-against-boeing-labor-suit-by-passing-bill-to-neuter-the-nlrb-2011-9http://www.twitpic.com/cjg8rb
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty America’s Zombie Prison http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-guantanamo-bay-is-worse-than-alcatraz-by-naomi-wolf The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for which the Pentagon recently requested million in extra funding. Despite Barack Obama’s promise in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut down “Gitmo,” the US evidently has no intention of doing so anytime soon. In fact, the only thing concerning Gitmo that the Obama administration has shut down is the office of the special envoy, Daniel Fried, who had been tasked with its closure. The US State Department reassigned Fried in late January, and he will not be replaced. CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphHow better to memorialize that decision tha…http://www.twitpic.com/cjh3t6
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Tell House Republicans 'No' to NLRB Shut Down http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Tell-House-Republicans-No-to-NLRB-Shut-Down Talk about team work. House and Senate Republicans have come together with a unique new strategy to attack workers’ rights and shut down the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). And their corporate sponsors are loving it…http://www.twitpic.com/cihk2s
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Missouri Residents: Take Action to Stop Paycheck Deception Bill http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Missouri-Residents-Take-Action-to-Stop-Paycheck-Deception-Bill Despite testimony overwhelmingly opposing the bill and universal opposition from the committee's Democrats, the Missouri legislature's House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee passed S.B. 29, a paycheck deception bill, which is now headed to the House floor. Missouri working families went door to door last week to tell their neighbors about the problems with the bill, held numerous public rallies in opposition and flooded the Capitol with thousands of emails, letters and phone calls telling legislators to oppose the bill, which shut state workers out of the political conversation in Mi…http://www.twitpic.com/cihku2
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [PHOTO ESSAY] Signs of the Times http://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/2013/03/signs-of-times.html You’d think two days worth of writing about marriage equality with only a handful of comments would cure me. But no, I am a sucker for punishment. Because on this, one of the most historic legal weeks for LGBT rights, I just can’t shut up about how excited I am to see it all happening before my eyes. Just 10 years ago I wasn’t sure if I’d see same-sex marriage legalized in our country in my lifetime. And now I feel certain of it. So if I go on, if I gush, there’s a reason. Sure, marriage is by far not the final frontier in achieving our full and total equal rights. But it would be such both real (the 1,138 benefits, rights and protec…
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [PHOTO ESSAY] Signs of the Times http://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/2013/03/signs-of-times.html You’d think two days worth of writing about marriage equality with only a handful of comments would cure me. But no, I am a sucker for punishment. Because on this, one of the most historic legal weeks for LGBT rights, I just can’t shut up about how excited I am to see it all happening before my eyes. Just 10 years ago I wasn’t sure if I’d see same-sex marriage legalized in our country in my lifetime. And now I feel certain of it. So if I go on, if I gush, there’s a reason. Sure, marriage is by far not the final frontier in achieving our full and total equal rights. But it would be such both real (the 1,138 benefits, rights and protec…http://www.twitpic.com/clx728