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« on: January 03, 2009, 09:35:35 pm »

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Why You Need a Union

Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t union members. On average, union workers’ wages are 30 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts. While only 14 percent of nonunion workers have guaranteed pensions, fully 68 percent of union workers do. More than 97 percent of union workers have jobs that provide health insurance benefits, but only 85 percent of nonunion workers do. Unions help employers create a more stable, productive workforce—where workers have a say in improving their jobs.
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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 05:23:02 pm »

AFL-CIO Union Voters Helped Drive Historic Victory for Obama
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Published 11/07/2008

Union voters played an important role in President-elect Obama’s historic victory, delivering a critical bloc of support to swing states that helped propel Obama and other working family candidates to big wins, election night polling released by the AFL-CIO showed.

Calling the victory in the presidential race and expansion of majorities in the House and Senate a working families’ mandate for broad-based economic change, AFL-CIO leaders vowed to continue the large-scale mobilization to push through broad economic reform.

“Led by a candidate with an uncommon ability to inspire hope, we reclaimed our country from those who are serving corporate interests and the privileged at the expense of everyone else,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said. “We have taken the first crucial steps to build a better future for our children and grandchildren. And what we’ve seen—the stunning voter participation and the common call for change—is an indication of the history we can continue to make together.”

High turnout among working-class union voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan formed a foundation of support for Obama. In new battleground states like Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, Sweeney said the AFL-CIO mounted a bigger effort than ever before, voting by large margins for Obama and “joined young people and other new voters to build a new majority for economic fairness.”

AFL-CIO members across battleground states supported Obama by a whopping 68-30 percent margin, according to an election night survey conducted for the AFL-CIO by Peter D. Hart Research Associates.

“More than 250,000 Union volunteers took to the streets in the largest independent voter mobilization in history,” said AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee. “People volunteered because they want a President who will fight for America’s working families. In the critical battleground states, workers gave Sen. Obama the winning edge.”

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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2009, 06:51:15 pm »

Obama Reverses Bush Executive Orders, Creates Middle Class Task Force
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President Barack Obama today reversed three Bush-era anti-worker executive orders and created a Cabinet-level task force to rebuild the nation’s middle class. In a White House ceremony this morning attended by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and other union leaders, Obama signed three executive orders that reverse a series of orders by then-President George W.  Bush, which govern the way federal contractors deal with unionized workers.

The three new executive orders:

Require federal service contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.
Reverse a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.
Prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses meant to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.

Before signing the orders, Obama said:

We cannot have a strong middle class without strong labor unions. We need to level the playing field for workers and the unions that represent their interests.

Obama also announced creation of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families to develop and coordinate policies to rebuild the nation’s middle class and lift the poor out of poverty. Vice President Joe Biden will chair the task force.

The task force has set up a new website, www.strongmiddleclass.gov/, where workers can submit stories and ideas about how the economy has affected them and ideas on changing it.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says:

The Task Force on Middle Class Working Families and the executive orders are the first step in a long road to restore balance between workers and corporations. As the weeks and months continue, we thank God that we have a president, vice president, and Congress who are determined to fix our economy so that it works for everyone.

Writing in USA Today, Biden says after the economy is jump-started by the new stimulus package, the top economic priority must be to rebuild the middle class.

On top of this urgent task, though, we have an important long-term task as well. Once this economy starts growing again, we need to make sure the benefits of that growth reach the people responsible for it. We can’t stand by and watch as that narrow sliver of the top of the income scale wins a bigger piece of the pie—while everyone else gets a smaller and smaller slice.

In government, as in life, you need clear goals to succeed. In the Obama/Biden administration, we have set a very clear goal: Our administration will have succeeded if the middle class once again starts to share in the economic success of this nation.

School Administrators President Jill Levy, who attended today’s signing, said in a statement:

This morning President Barack Obama welcomed labor back into the White House, where it has not been welcome for the last eight years. By announcing the creation of the Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, President Obama and Vice President Biden have assured all that they see growing the middle class and building a strong labor movement as inextricably tied to growing our economy.

Biden announced that his chief economic adviser Jared Bernstein will serve as executive director of the task force. Bernstein, a 16-year veteran of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), most recently served as director of EPI’s living standards program.

This is the second consecutive day that Obama has shown his support for workers. Yesterday, he signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which strengthens laws to ensure equal pay for equal work.

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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 07:26:21 am »

At a time when I am seeing 1/2 of the people I know losing their jobs or having their days, hours, wages, and/or benefits cut, its nice to see something being done. 
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« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2009, 07:21:07 pm »

STEELING a Union’s ID
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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater.

It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low (insert Munch’s “Scream” here): He’s set up an RNC fundraising page on Facebook made to look like it’s the United Steelworkers union.

The “United STEELE Workers Union” page even features a hard hat with an American flag sticker front and center.

Just curious, Michael: Doesn’t a white hard hat clash with your designer suits?


Steele’s rip-off is another blatant and egregious attempt to align the party of NO ideas and NO appeal with progressive and forward-looking groups, in this case, the union movement—because the party can’t get anywhere on its own. And with a pathetic 21 percent of the public willing to identify themselves as Republican and four in 10 of those Republicans having an unfavorable opinion of their own party, it’s looking worse than ever for the Party of NO.

Even before the current GOP disaster, Steele campaigned in the same sleazy, misleading way, distributing “Steele Democrat” yard signs in his 2008 run for Senate to make it appear he really wasn’t aligned with the Party of Bush/Cheney. His campaigns in Maryland have included handing out fliers with inaccurate voting information distributed by homeless people he bused in from Pennsylvania.

Steele posing as a member of the United Steelworkers is an insult to the 1.2 million active and retired members of the Steelworkers whose proud history of taking a stand for workers emerged in the hard-boiled 1930’s struggles for union recognition as part of the CIO’s industry-wide organizing strategy.

Yet here’s what the False STEELE workers’ page proclaims as its goals:

This group is dedicated to help the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele get the GOP moving for the 2010, 2012 elections and beyond.

We will be a grassroots force ready to answer the call from Mr. Steele.
We will organize.
We will campaign.
We will fight to win our country back.

Organize? Campaign? Grassroots? More rip-offs of the union movement.

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We will be a grassroots force ready to answer the call from Mr. Steele.
We will organize.
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2009, 08:02:44 pm »



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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2009, 03:32:00 pm »

Labor Day Weekend.......

It’s a time for all of America’s working men and women to relax, reflect and rejuvenate. America’s labor movement brought us the weekend, the eight-hour workday, the minimum wage, an end to child labor and much, much more. Labor Day is our day to celebrate our successes, while looking ahead to our next challenges.

Labor Law Reform—Restoring the freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Health Care Reform—Quality, affordable care for everyone.
A Lost Decade for Young Workers—Our future. 


This Labor Day weekend, we are taking a moment to reflect on the future of America’s working men of women. Young workers today have lower-paying jobs than they did 10 years ago—those able to find jobs at all. Health care is a luxury, and retirement security is something for their parents, not them.

In fact, 34 percent of workers younger than 35 still live at home with their parents. Low-income young workers are as likely to live with parents as on their own.

A new report by the AFL-CIO and Working America, “Young Workers: A Lost Decade,” finds that the economic meltdown over the past decade has handicapped young workers’ ability to transition into adulthood and financial independence.

After getting married, my wife and I decided to move in with my parents to pay off our bills. We could afford to live on our own, but we’d never be able to get out of debt. We have school loans to pay off, too. We’d like to have children, but we just can’t manage the expense of it right now...so we’re putting it off till we’re in a better place.

—Nate Scherer, 31, lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he shares a home with his wife, his parents and his brother.

The situation facing young workers like Nate is far worse than it was 10 years ago and is cause for alarm.

Here are just a few of the report's disturbing findings:

31 percent of young workers report being uninsured, up from 24 percent 10 years ago, and 79 percent of the uninsured say they don’t have coverage because they can’t afford it or their employer does not offer it.
Only 31 percent say they make enough money to cover their bills and put some money aside—22 percentage points fewer than in 1999.
Seven in 10 do not have enough saved to cover two months of living expenses—a real danger when so many jobs are disappearing.
The future of our country depends on the prosperity of each generation, and while the magnitude of the problems is huge, so are the opportunities. Young workers remain full of hope and want to be involved. As a movement, we must engage proactively with this generation.

Young workers in particular must be given the tools to lead the next generation to prosperity. Our national survey shows just how broken our economy is for our young people—and what’s at stake if we don't fix it.

—AFL-CIO President John Sweeney

As we look to the future this Labor Day, let's all think about what we can do to make our economy work better for the next generation. Keep in mind that one exciting result of our survey is that not only do young people want to be involved, their priorities are even more progressive than the older generation of workers.

Join us on our blog all weekend for Labor Day stories and opportunities to connect.

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Together, we can make a difference.

Marc Laitin
AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator


 
 
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