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Labor Radio July 26, 2010
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Workers Independent News Labor Radio WIN's Labor radio is made possible in part by underwriting from ULLICO, the Union Labor Life Insurance Company Labor Radio Rundown: 1) WIN Newscast 2) WIN's Doug Cunningham interviews United Steel Workers International Affairs Director Ben Davis about USW strategic cooperation with the Mexican union Los Mineros. 3) A global labor news update from Canadian-based Radio Labour. Worker Describes Losing Her Job After 26 Years, Wants More Dignity For “Terminated” Workers- 07/26/10By Doug Cunningham Millions of American workers have felt what she felt. Vita Maggio was fired from her job in an economic downsizing after 26 years at the same company – her job and her a life a victim of the economic crisis that still hold millions in its grip. Washington Teacher’s Union Battles Hundreds Of D.C. Firings- 07/26/10By Doug Cunningham Pension Funds Join In Class-Action Suit Against BP- 07/26/10A New York public pension fund has started a class action lawsuit against BP due to the losses experienced after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. Since the rig exploded in April and the well began pouring oil into the Gulf BP’s stock has collapsed by nearly 40 percent. As a result the New York State Common Retirement Fund has lost $75 million. The fund holds assets in trust for more than one million employees and retirees of state and local governments. Four Ohio pension funds will be joining New York in the suit. Labor Radio July 23, 2010
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Workers Independent News Labor Radio Labor Radio Rundown: 1) WIN Week In Review Newscast Labor News Headlines July 23, 2010
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USW President Leo Gerard Calls For Re-Industrialization Of America And Transformation Of Trade Policies To Create Jobs- 07/23/10
UNITE-HERE Hotel Workers In Civil Disobedience Protests At Hyatt Hotels In Fifteen Cities- 07/23/10
Mine Safety Bill Clears House Committee- 07/23/10
Mine Safety Bill Clears House Committee- 07/23/10A bill making its way through Congress could give mine workers more protection. Jesse Russell reports: UNITE-HERE Hotel Workers In Civil Disobedience Protests At Hyatt Hotels In Fifteen Cities- 07/23/10By Doug Cunningham Nearly a thousand UNITE-HERE hotel workers Thursday used non-violent civil disobedience protests at Hyatt hotels around the country in a struggle for justice and fair contracts. Contracts expire this year for 45,000 union hotel workers. The union says hotel workers have endured staff cuts, reduced hours and excessive injury rates while billionaire hotel owners further enrich themselves. UNITE-HERE workers hit the streets in fifteen U.S. cities Thursday. USW President Leo Gerard Calls For Re-Industrialization Of America And Transformation Of Trade Policies To Create Jobs- 07/23/10By Doug Cunningham United Steel Workers President Leo Gerard says he’s tired of economic policies in this country that essentially let Wall Street, bankers and corporations play like kids in a candy store with our economy. Gerard says the Obama administration must get serious not only about re-regulating the financial industry, but about transforming trade policies in this country and creating jobs. He says unions like the steel workers have never been against trade, just against workers being exploited by it. Labor Radio July 22, 2010
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Has President Obama Betrayed American Workers on Jobs And Economic Policy?- 07/22/10
California Farm Workers Hope A Bill Passes Giving Them The Same Overtime Rights As Other Workers- 07/22/10
Evidence Jobless Americans Want To Work – 3000 Apply For 300 Openings At Indiana Chrysler Plant- 07/22/10
Evidence Jobless Americans Want To Work – 3000 Apply For 300 Openings At Indiana Chrysler Plant- 07/22/10Republicans who wanted to block an extension benefits because they thought unemployed Americans simply didn’t want to find work need to look no farther than a Kokomo, Indiana Chrysler plant that recently announced 300 job openings. The response to those openings was overwhelming with 3000 applications being filed as of Tuesday. California Farm Workers Hope A Bill Passes Giving Them The Same Overtime Rights As Other Workers- 07/22/10Farm workers in California are hoping a bill will pass that will put their hourly rights more on par with other employment sectors. Currently farm workers in California receive overtime after a 10 hour day or 60 hours in a week. The new bill would pay time and a half after an eight hour day or a 40 hour week. Currently farm workers earn on average $9 to $10 per hour. The California Farm Bureau says if such a bill does pass farmers are threatening to cut hours. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has not taken a position on the bill. Has President Obama Betrayed American Workers on Jobs And Economic Policy?- 07/22/10By Doug Cunningham President Obama has betrayed American workers by failing to follow through on his promises as a candidate to put jobs and the recovery of the middle class at the top of his list when he got to the White House. That’s the opinion of Leo Hindery, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. Hindery says America needs to create 22 million jobs to both recover from the recession and achieve full employment. And he says Obama could lead a successful effort to do it if his administration had the political will to do it. Labor Radio July 21, 2010
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LaborRadio072110.txt
Workers Independent News Labor Radio Labor Radio Rundown: 1) WIN Newscast 2) WIN's Jesse Russell reports on a sobering new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research on jobs creation. It reveals that the U.S. isn't likely to regain the eight million jobs lost in the recession until around 2014. Hugo Boss Factory Reopens In Ohio- 07/21/10After a long fight that saw Hollywood movie star coming out to bat for workers, a Hugo Boss plant in Brooklyn, Ohio has reopened. Nearly 200 workers returned to the assembly line at the company’s only U.S. suit plan this week. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown was at the reopening and he said it was important to preserve products that are made in the United States: [Brown1]: I hear people all the time in this country say, I want to buy things made in America, I can’t find things made in America. USW, Los Mineros Wage Cross-Border Struggle To Lift Mexican Worker Wages, Labor Standards- 07/21/10By Doug Cunningham United Steel Workers International Affairs Director Ben Davis says his union and Los Mineros, the Mexican mine workers union, continue to move forward in a strategic cross-border alliance. The USW, Davis says, is in solidarity with Los Mineros in its struggle to uplift wages and working conditions for all Mexican workers because that strategy will also protect U.S. industrial jobs. Labor News Headlines July 20, 2010
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President Obama Calls On Republicans To Quit Holding Jobless Workers Hostage To Politics- 07/20/10
Despite Big Free Agency Spending, NBA Owners Press For Concessions From Players Union Under Lockout Threat- 07/20/10
Economic Report: Economic Policy Favors Corporations Over Workers As Profits Recover While Jobs Don’t- 07/20/10
Economic Report: Economic Policy Favors Corporations Over Workers As Profits Recover While Jobs Don’t- 07/20/10Economic Report: The Economic Policy Institute says as corporations begin reporting second quarter profits this week we will see an economic snapshot of robust profit recovery in stark contrast to a stalled job market. Profits, EPI says, are 5.7 percent higher than at the start of the recession But EPI says workers have 8.2 million fewer jobs than when the recession started in 2007.. EPI says this demonstrates that economic policy is clearly skewed in favor of corporations and against workers. |
