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This week in the war on workers
by
Laura Clawson
for
Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011
Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011
at
6:45:02pm PDT
Mother Jones
Mother Jones
The economy continues to work for the wealthy, not for working- and middle-class people:
We're in the
11th straight week
of first-time unemployment claims over 400,000, new home sales fell, and predictions for GDP growth were revised downward.
Executive pay continues to be ridiculously high
. (Expect to see some version of this weekly.)
Republicans are pushing a
corporate tax holiday
that will just give corporations incentive to move more of their money offshore. It probably goes without saying that they are pushing this in the name of job creation. In other great legislative ideas, former Democratic Sen.
Evan Bayh
and the Chamber of Commerce are trying to prevent the government from passing any new health and safety or environmental regulations. Again, in the name of jobs.
In case you missed it, things are ugly in the states:
New Jersey
passed a law that will increase the already-substantial pension and health care contributions of public employees and stop cost of living adjustments for retirees.
Florida
's teachers, social workers, sheriff's deputies, and other public workers are suing the state over a pension law similar to New Jersey's.
In Michigan, the Senate is considering a package of bills designed in consultation with Michelle Rhee that will
limit collective bargaining rights
for teachers and reduce the threshold for demotion from "reasonable and just cause" to "not arbitrary and capricious."
On the bright side:
More than 40,000
TSA employees now have union representation. In an initial election in April, the vast majority of TSO's voting chose one of two unions over the "no union" option, and in a run-off this month, AFL-CIO affiliate AFGE prevailed over independent union NTEU.
Tennessee's legislature is
losing popularity
over their assault on education.
Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker
got some mud on his face when he tried to make a convicted tax felon the poster boy for his budget. Appropriate enough—who knows, maybe Greg DeCaster wouldn't have had to pay any taxes if Walker's tax cuts for the wealthy had been in effect back then.
Wayne Ryan, the instructional superintendent for Washington DC's schools, has
resigned
. Ryan was first in the spotlight as principal of Noyes Education Campus, a role in which he received bonuses for testing improvements and was featured in job recruitment ads; he was promoted to instructional superintendent by former chancellor Michelle Rhee. More recently, though, Noyes was one of the schools found to have
extraordinarily high erasure rates
on tests, sparking a cheating investigation. Ryan is a relatively low-level guy in this story, but at least someone promoted as part of Rhee's myth is gone.
Diarist Nickinnewyork has an
inspiring story
of a recent victory for workers at Regis hair salons. It's not a final or perfect victory, but it does show that—sometimes, at least—a few people fighting back can make a difference.
And finally:
Daily Kos Diarists
Kodiak54
and
Broke and Unemployed
have some stories of work and unemployment up close.