#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The European System Of Industrial Relations And The Dynamics Of Transnational Company Agreements http://www.social-europe.eu/2013/06/the-european-system-of-industrial-relations-and-the-dynamics-of-transnational-company-agreements/ European Works Councils (EWCs) and transnational company agreements are a cornerstone of the social dimension of the European Union. They constitute the most dynamic element of the European system of industrial relations which has emerged in the last decades in spite of the considerable differences between the industrial relations systems of the member states. The construction of this system started in 1984 when the European legislators vested the European Commission with the task of encouraging the development of a ‘social dialogue’ so as to promote contractual relations in the longer term. After a period of quasi tripartite European social dialogue that produced rather modest results, the European governments followed the agreement of 31 October 1991 signed by the ETUC, UNICE…http://www.twitpic.com/cxz6fk
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 'Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean' Report Seeks to Widen Tax Haven Loopholes http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/Corporate-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Report-Seeks-to-Widen-Tax-Haven-Loopholes A new report from the Institute on Policy Studies (IPS), called Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean, details how the CEOs who make up the group Fix the Debt, a group pushing for harsh austerity measures, are set to make even higher profits off of the policies they are pursuing in the name of “balancing the budget.” Fix the Debt's members are pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and earned social insurance benefits, while seeking to widen tax haven loopholes by creating a “territorial” tax system, which would earn them as much as 3 billion.The report found that the 59 Fix the Debt member corporations held more than 4 billion in offshore profits at the end of 2012. Those profits, much of which are only counted as “offshore” because of tax loopholes, are not subject to U.S. corporate taxes unless…http://www.twitpic.com/cwwqr1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty OccupyMARINES on Facebook shared Police State USA- Land of the Checkpoints on Facebook's photo. ~Alex~ A felony? A frigging FELONY? To 'harass' a cop?? Ruin someone's life FOREVER, because a cop thinks he's being 'annoyed'. Who defines 'annoying'? How much more BS are we going to take? Where is our tipping point? NEW YORK — The NY State Senate has passed a bill (S.2402) that would make it a felony, punishable by up to 4 years in prison, to harass or annoy a police officer while on duty. “At a time when shocking incidents of disrespect and outright confrontation are at an all-time high, the men and women who patrol the streets of our cities deserve every possible protection we can offer them,” Senator Griffo stated. “My bill would make it a crime to take any type of physical action to try to intimidate a police officer. This is a necessary action because we can see from the rise in incidents that too many people in our society have lost the respect they need to have for a police officer. We need to make it very clear that when a police officer is performing his duty, every citizen needs to comply and that refusal to comply carries a penalty.” “Our system of laws is established to protect the foundations of our society,” Senator Griffo said. “Police officers who risk their lives every day in our cities and on our highways deserve every possible protection, and those who treat them with disrespect, harass them and create situations that can lead to injuries deserve to pay a price for their actions.” NOTE: According to the bill, the “annoying” behavior is defined by initiating any form of physical contact with the officer. It is my prediction that this will likely be the new catch-all charge against people, similar to how “resisting arrest” is (ab)used. If you flinch when you are being handcuffed, it could be a felony charge. Shrug your shoulders while being beaten by police, and it could be a 4 year sentence. I would hope that most people could agree that everyone, police or not, should be held to the same standards and governed by the same laws. That is one of our founding principles. On that much alone, we should all oppose this bill which sets police into a special protected class of citizen. http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senate-passes-bill-making-harassment-police-officer-crimehttp://www.twitpic.com/cwc57c
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Scott Walker, GOP Slip ALEC Education Agenda Into Wisconsin Budget http://www.prwatch.org/node/12099 Governor Scott Walker seeks to “radically” overhaul Wisconsin's education system using several pieces of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model legislation, and to do it through the budget process, meaning this privatization agenda could be enacted with minimal public discussion or debate. The proposed budget provisions have the potential to “radically change public education in the State of Wisconsin,” says Julie Mead, chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the campaign trail in 2010, Walker had pledged to “strip policy and pork p…http://www.twitpic.com/cvofyn
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Shocking: Rape Is Rampant in Juvenile Justice System and Most Often Perpetrated by Staff http://www.alternet.org/rape-rampant-juvenile-justice-system?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Hundreds of teens are victimized repeatedly, according to study. Hundreds of teen-agers are raped or sexually assaulted during their stays in the country’s juvenile detention facilities, and many of them are victimized repeatedly, according to a U.S. Department of Justice survey. The teens are most often assaulted by staff members working at the facilities, and fully 20 percent of those victimized by the men and women charged with protecting and counseling them said they had been violated on more than 10 occasions. “Today’s report illustrates the fundamental failure of many…http://www.twitpic.com/cvp80g
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Idle No More: Sovereignty Summer http://grittv.org/?video=idle-no-more-sovereignty-summer After years of attempting to fight for their rights through the Canadian legal system, First Nations across Canada led by the women-led mass movement Idle No More are launching a Summer of Sovereignty, a campaign designed to educate and inspire action on behalf of indigenous rights and environmental protection. Begun by Nina Wilson, Sheelah Mclean, Sylvia McAdam and Jessica Gordon, Idle No More has been called “one of the most exciting new political movements on Earth.” It's certainly the largest mass movement of indigenous people north of the US border. The group came together last fall to protest Canadian bill C-45, a larg…http://www.twitpic.com/cvi82d
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Police Brutality and the Prison Industrial Complex http://www.answercoalition.org/sacramento/events/police-brutality-prisons-sac-event.html Skulls cracked with batons, flashlights, fists, feet and knees. Bodies shot with 1, 10, 50 and 100 bullets. Police brutality is not only constant in the United States, it is thriving and escalating. The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. Over 7 million people are incarcerated, on probation or on parole. And oppressed communities of color bear the brunt of the racist system. Police brutality, the U.S. criminal “justice” system—the prisons, the jails and the courts—are integral parts of the capitalist state. We invite you to this forum where local activists will discuss the above topics and more i…http://www.twitpic.com/cuztx1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Trumka and Coyle: Social Security 'Continues to Work' http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Trumka-and-Coyle-Social-Security-Continues-to-Work AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Alliance for Retired Americans Executive Director Edward Coyle today issued this joint statement on the 2013 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report: The most important message from the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report is that our Social Security system continues to work for the American people. After years of economic crisis for working families, Social Security is in better shape and more dependable than 401(k)s, private pensions or any other public or private program. We must call out those who will try to misuse today’s report… RELATED: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Trumka-Budget-Cuts-to-Social-Security-Medicare-Wrong-and-Indefensiblehttp://www.twitpic.com/cuzy40
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Saturday # 1J, international event “We will not pay your debt! That the troika fuck! ” http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/2013/05/29/1j-mani-no-pagarem-deute/ TRANSLATED FROM CATALAN SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR On Saturday June 1 is called an international demonstration unit under the theme “We will not pay your debt! That the troika fuck! ” . In Barcelona, the event is organized and coordinated by the platform, “Together We Can” . The demonstration will start at 19pm Pl. University to finish at the headquarters of the European Union in Barcelona (Ps. Gracia Provence). Then about “Together we can”, who is part and show poster and call reasons. The demonstration will be at 19pm University Square and end at the headquarters of the European Union in Barcelona (Ps. Gracia Provence) by reading the manifesto unit. The platform “Together We Can” was formed in Last 23 February following the preparation of the demonstration # 23F “We make them stronger. Together we can “and that drew 60,000 people “Together We Can” together different platforms sectoral associations, organizations, unions and parties working in their everyday social rights and cuts in the city of Barcelona. The areas that make up the platform “Together We “are: Unitary Platform in Defense of the Public University (PUDUP) , Assembly of Staff and Acting Substitute , CGT education , Ateneo Rebel , Union of Students of the Catalan Countries , Global Revolt , Red tide-fighting culture , Athenian Red , 8octubre Platform , Platform SOS Culture , Stop rubber bullets , fighting , Confederation Inter Alternative Catalonia (IAC) Public tide Hospitalet , Rainbow Assembly 15M Verneda , Catalonia TACEE , Yes I'm Profitable Telefonica , Papers for Everyone , USTEC-stes (IAC) , Coordinator of Occupational Health Centers , Ecologists in Action Catalonia , Assembly Sarria Sant Gervasi , CGT-Catalonia, the Assembly Left Eixample , Assembly Saints 15M / Courts , Rear in Motion , CUP Barcelona , Papers and Rights for All, Ojo con you OJO , closed the CIES , Interzone Teaching Coordinator , Fight Internationalist , Gothic Assembly , Forward – OSAN . All work together to make a common front against the approval of the budgets of the Generalitat of Catalonia in 2013 and the budgets of workplace training and to defend among others, education, health, social services , culture and territory. Budgets are once again simply mean more unemployment, more inequality and more cuts to pay a debt that is not ours, illegitimate debt Catalan people do not have to pay duty. For more information we invite you to read the press release ( follow this link to Scribd ) and visit the blog platform “Together We Can” . To spread this call: – Event on Facebook (you can invite your contacts) www.facebook.com/events/468341879913326 – Video “# 1J YOU fuck Troika” (for 15Mbcn.tv ): www.youtube .com / watch? o6AhlPoTwYM v = Then the manifesto “We will not pay your debt! That the troika fuck! ” (The can print / share this following link to Scribd ) 41,640 people evicted, fired 44,890, 1,648,200 unemployed, a third of the population in poverty, 200,000 domestic workers without rights, more than 2,000 migrants to ICD's, and … the list is long, very long for Catalan society. But in the coming months only hear about budget cuts, restructuring pubic administration, deficit, debt, sanitation, rescue …'re fed up! Again, the social movements, unitary platforms, neighborhood organizations, groups and unions, in short, we, all together, enough to say its cuts, its austerity and its restructuring. And we say to people who are in government and they want to adopt again, budgets cuts and injustices, we say the Spanish government, which wants to pay its debt and its multinationals, and I say to Merkel and the European Union that we are not to blame for the crisis but we are simply the victims. And that's why for months that we are working to change this situation, we do every day denouncing the injustices of CIE's, we do fighting fracking all over the Catalan region, we do denouncing abortion law reform, it we stopping evictions and releasing new spaces for people evicted – we must not forget that today the social work of PAH has already released seven buildings in the ACC, but we also do in schools and health in the case of closed budget. Today we are here to say that our lives are worth more than their profits are La Caixa, Telefonica or Agbar. I keep pulling the thread, we can not forget the 26,000 million tax fraud loved the Catalan Countries. How many hospital beds is everything closed? How many college scholarships? How many social benefits or public investment? Absolutely no money! What we lack is the political will to go find them where they are. Must destroy tax fraud, and recover inheritance tax to pay more than those who have more! And that was the budget debate: the conflict of interest between the needs of most social privileges and uncrowded. Its debt against our rights, benefits against our health, education, culture and pensions. But if you thought claudicaríem once again be wrong. Because we're fed up because we lost together because we fear! And that is why today we do not want to forget the folks of PAH, which in recent weeks have been tried and tried to defend the right to housing in Sabadell and Vic students repressed Catalan universities to defend a quality public education, people attributed to defend our rights in general and you go past all that, Patricia, have suffered police brutality in recent months. Because neither will his or her ball clubs that make us shut up. We are here to reject budgets that are antisocial advertiser and blackmail we are doing around them. We accept no cuts in education, health, social welfare cuts … are not allowed jobs, lost wages, deregulation and deteriorating working conditions … are not allowed looting companies and utilities. Do not allow poverty, inequality, or the destruction of our environment back fracking, the privatization of public space projects Eurovegas style. We do not want to be a maquila Southern Europe! There is another possible way. One way to deal with what happens: the city and the dictates of the troika, yes. But also the financial powers, to lobbyists and big rentiers our house. It is an alternative that happens not to pay its debt and its crisis. We have reasons not quite trust the willingness of the government, nor the audacity of this Parliament. There is sure who will tell you that under these conditions, there is nothing to do. Do not listen. At a certain age it is remembered that Franco died in bed, but his dictatorship died on the street. The youngest you have seen a September 11 tectonic plates that are removed from the system inherited from the transition. Even the current configuration of political forces has the imprint of the last strike. From a sustained social mobilization can change many things, generating alternatives, profoundly changed the political landscape, allowing the emergence of new subjects … This fight just begins. We will return. The 2013 budget will not be a formality or an adjustment back to the village. We will return. The first condition for any progress, however, is our unity. Together we can and together. This is not a slogan for a complete demonstration: a realization. We come to rhetoric, but to write our own history, to take charge of our destiny. Stop antisocial budget! Courage! Dignity expire! Together we will win!http://www.twitpic.com/cudvgc
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Mark Herndon on Google+ 9:21 PM We are at risk of another round of bailouts lol http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/01/news/economy/banking-crisis.moneymag/index.html?iid=HP_River Are we at risk of another banking crisis? Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business explains how to prevent another meltdown from taking place in the U.S. banking sector. The big question: Are we at risk of another banking crisis? Oh, yes. Definitely. We continue to have a system that's way more prone to crisis than it needs to be. Why are we still vulnerable? Banks continue to be much too highly indebted and interconnected. That means they all tend to get in trouble at the same time, and the failure of one can take down …http://www.twitpic.com/cue3qd