#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Black Students Flock to STEM Fields, Yet Business Lobby Pushes for More Temporary Workers http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Black-Students-Flock-to-STEM-Fields-Yet-Business-Lobby-Pushes-for-More-Temporary-Workers Over the weekend, young people watched or read about President Obama speaking at Morehouse College and first lady Michelle Obama addressing the graduates of Bowie State University. Hopefully they were inspired by seeing so many young and gifted people finishing the course they chose to follow. Well, here is a little known set of facts…http://www.twitpic.com/csid3p
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#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Today: Tell Us How to Open More Doors to Latino Workers http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Today-Tell-Us-How-to-Open-More-Doors-to-Latino-Workers Be sure to join Elianne Ramos today from 3–4 p.m. EDT for a live online discussion on how to build a stronger movement for working people, with today’s chat spotlighting Latino workers. Ramos, principal and CEO of Speak Hispanic Communications and vice-chair of communications and PR for Latinos in Social Media, poses this question: “Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. workforce and their employment experiences are as varied as their individual histories. How can the labor movement use new technologies to solidify its Latino membership?”http://www.twitpic.com/cshaw9
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations http://nader.org/2013/05/16/patriotic-yardsticks-for-unpatriotic-giant-corporations/ Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military. Yet these corporate goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less than you do in federal income taxes. Imagine corporations, like General Electric, have not paid federal income taxes on U.S. profits for years. Mega corporations have abandoned U.S. workers by entrenching “pull-down” trade agreements that mak…http://www.twitpic.com/csbfye
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty U.S. Workers Protest International Labor Rights Abuses at Mondelēz http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/U.S.-Workers-Protest-International-Labor-Rights-Abuses-at-Mondelez At today’s Mondelēz International's shareholder meeting, the IUF, the international union body representing food workers worldwide, and unions representing the company’s North American employees raised concerns about human rights abuses in the company’s overseas operations. Many Mondelēz-branded cookies and crackers are produced by union members, including Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Ritz and Triscuit…http://www.twitpic.com/csbgly
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Fight for and a Union Spreads to Milwaukee as Fast Food Workers Strike in 5th Major U.S. City http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2013/05/fight-for-15.html Milwaukee fast food workers took action last Wednesday calling attention to poverty wages and poor working conditions. Hundreds of workers from fast food and retail stores including Burger King, McDonald’s, Popeye’s and Dollar Tree walked off the job in solidarity in the fight for an hour and a union. Tessie Harrell, a mother of six who has worked at Burger King for five years explained, “If we don’t stand up today we are always going to be on the downfall. We work hard for .25 and we are standing together to say we are worth more. We need to pay our bills; …http://www.twitpic.com/crur73
#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 Join Steven Pitts Wednesday to Discuss How We Build a Stronger Labor Movement for People of Color http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Join-Steven-Pitts-Wednesday-to-Discuss-How-We-Build-a-Stronger-Labor-Movement-for-People-of-Color Join us Wednesday at 1 p.m. EDT for this week’s live online discussion with with Dr. Steven Pitts, labor policy specialist at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He is hosting our second online conversation on how we build a better future for working people and a bigger and stronger movement. Here’s the question he’s posing, and you can go to our discussion page now to give us your thoughts—be sure to click back on Wednesday to follow the real-time dialogue with Pitts. “Union density is higher among black workers than it is for any other racial or ethnic group of workers…”..http://www.twitpic.com/cqevkz
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty LAX Project Provides Wealth of Experience for IBEW Apprentice http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Training/LAX-Project-Provides-Wealth-of-Experience-for-IBEW-Apprentice We’re following the story of Hannah Cooper, an apprentice with Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 11 in Los Angeles. Here’s her latest report and check out her first entry. For the past year and a half, I’ve had the great fortune of working on the new addition to the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). In the first two years of my electrical apprenticeship with IBEW Local 11, I worked on small jobs for small shops that had a very limited scope of work, so there weren’t very many aspects of the trade I had exposure to, much to my disappointment…http://www.twitpic.com/cqf857
#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 [VIDEO] The Last Internationale Demand That 'Workers of the World Unite!' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/the-last-internationale-demand-that-workers-of-the-world-unite-20130501 Folk-rockers rally for protest anthem New York's counterculture spirit lives on in the Last Internationale, a group of impassioned folk-rockers, and the new video for their fiery protest song “Workers of the World Unite!” In it, the band plays through the stripped-down track in an isolated shack, and images of hard-working farmers filter throughout the video (which you can watch here exclusively). “[The song] is about poverty, oppression, injustice, the myth of the American dream and the need for workers' revolution against capitalism,” the Last Internationale tell Rolling Stone. “We wanted …http://www.twitpic.com/cq82eg