45,000 on Strike: What YOU Can Do to Support Verizon Workers

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Sunday August 07, 2011 · 7:05 PM PDT

2011/08/07 · 19:05

The Verizon Strike diary on the rec list and Laura Clawson's diary on the same topic are getting lots of comments asking how to help.

(For the record, I am a unionized Verizon employee in Florida. We are still under contract and we are not on strike.)

norwood

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Sunday August 07, 2011 · 8:49 AM PDT

2011/08/07 · 08:49

As of Midnight last evening, 45,000 Verizon Telephone workers are on strike.

This strike is a BFD. Even as the company is raking in record earnings, Verizon workers are fighting a proposed decimation of their compensation and benefits package. The company is negotiating like a bunch of tea baggers - they are not budging from their original unreasonable demands.

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Wednesday April 27, 2011 · 5:15 PM PDT

2011/04/27 · 17:15

Forgive me if this has already been posted...I skimmed recent and rec list and saw nothing here on Kos yet but this is big...

See below for some major updates.... this is just insane!

norwood

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 6:11 AM PDT

2011/04/04 · 06:11

Here is the Florida Legislative Update for week 4, by the Florida AFL-CIO.

FL Chamber of Commerce promotes union busting

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Sunday April 03, 2011 · 7:07 AM PDT

2011/04/03 · 07:07

The Florida Chamber of Commerce's latest anti-union ad offers up a sentimental pitch to viewers that attempts to sympathize with "police officers and teachers" to get viewers to support a bill that strips police officers and teachers from using direct deposit from their paychecks to pay their dues.

Check it out here...

http://www.youtube.com/...

Bob Sloan

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Sunday April 03, 2011 · 6:52 AM PDT

2011/04/03 · 06:52

Many times I've been asked how I got involved on these issues - prison labor and mass incarceration - and I've had to explain my interest. This has happened time and again.

In an effort of apprising everyone about why I became so interested and write so passionately about these and related issues, I wanted to write this diary to not only show what has been happening to us because of this insidious agenda, but how.

The agenda advanced by the Conservative lawmakers and corporations belonging to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been an ongoing affair from the early 1980's and as described below, began fully exploiting prisoners for their labor in earnest in 1998. This agenda includes several variables designed to drive down civilian wages, eliminate private sector jobs and to allow large corporations to continue their market presence while going after the markets and sales of smaller competing companies - "Mom and Pop" or family run small businesses that are/were openly competing against the large manufacturers.

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Should the PIE Program be abolished/repealed and jobs now performed by prisoners returned to the private sector markets?

294 votes Vote Now!

Should the PIE Program be abolished/repealed and jobs now performed by prisoners returned to the private sector markets?

Yes

274 votes

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I don't know

14 votes

Maybe

4 votes

When What You Study Makes You A Political Target, Labor Edition

Something the Dog Said

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Thursday March 31, 2011 · 8:48 AM PDT

2011/03/31 · 08:48

At what point does your work make you a target for political harassment? As a blogger I get a small amount of hate mail and a moderate amount of harassing mail (the two are different, one you can see the person foaming at the mouth, the other you can see their grin at wasting your time), but that is kind of par for the course.

However a troubling trend has started from the Right with regards to State University professors. They are nominally State employees, so the Right as begun to use Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to look at all of the e-mails of professors.

It all started with Ken “the Cooch” Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia, talking about going after a climate science researcher in the totally discredited “climate gate” incident. Since then there have been FOIA requests of a William Cronon of University of Wisconsin in connection with the illegal and unethical actions of the Republicans and Gov. Walker in that state.

Now it is spreading. Talking Points Memo first reported and now the New York Times is picking up the story of several conservative groups in Michigan who are asking for a wide swath of e-mails from three professors from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

Donna Conroy

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Thursday March 31, 2011 · 8:38 AM PDT

2011/03/31 · 08:38

We will never put Americans back to work when we must fly to India to apply for a job that's right in our own home town.

Newt Global, headquarted outside Dallas, Texas hosted a job fair in India on March 5th. Digital-X, a federal contractor with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California and offices in North Carolina is hosting a 4 day job fair for their US job openings starting April 21st.

Congress should immediately require all companies to seek local talent first and be required to hire equally or better qualified US workers before conducting job fairs abroad, as the DOJ is recommending.

It will put Americans back to work and stop the outsourcing of our nation's future jobs. Without adding to the deficit!

Send a message to the House today. They are having a hearing on the H1-b corporate visa program tomorrow at 10am.

Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

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Wednesday March 30, 2011 · 7:08 PM PDT

2011/03/30 · 19:08

Following in the footsteps of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, author Gabriel Thompson decided to commit actual journalism and spend a year working in jobs usually done by impoverished immigrants. The result was Working in the Shadows, which follows him through three brief careers in different parts of the country.

The Media Consortium

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Wednesday March 30, 2011 · 3:43 PM PDT

2011/03/30 · 15:43

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing every three weeks. Why? Because he doesn't like either group, Cenk Uygur argues on the Young Turks. "It's an attempt to stigmatize, demonize, and punish those people," Uygur says:
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