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By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Scott Walker is plowing ahead with his full plan for balancing Wisconsin's budget, proposing massive cuts to public schools even as he faces a stalemate over his proposal to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights. With Senate Democrats still missing, Walker presented the second part of his two-year spending plan to the Legislature on Tuesday. It relies on getting concessions from government employees to help pay for about $1 billion cuts in aid to schools, counties and cities while avoiding any tax or fee increases, furloughs or widespread layoffs as ...
State Budget Fights Fire Up Union; Obama Involved
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states. President Barack Obama and his political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair strained relations with some union leaders upset over his recent overtures to business. The potent combination has helped fan the huge protests in Wisconsin against a measure that would strip collective bargaining rights from state workers. The alliance also is sending a warning to other states that are considering ...
Green Bay Packers Players Hit Gov. Scott Walker, Sign Letter Supporting Collective Bargaining
By David Knowles - AOL NewsIt's now a Super Bowl-caliber battle in Wisconsin. Current and former members of the Green Bay Packers are lining up against Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights and have signed a letter in support of the AFL-CIO's actions, Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel reports. Curtis Fuller, Chris Jackie, Charles Jordan, Bob Long, Steve Okoniewski, Brady Poppinga and Jason Spitz all signed a statement on the ongoing standoff between teachers and other state employees hoping to block Walker's plans. Here's the letter to the governor: We know that it is ...
Unions Ready to Fight Obama's Free-Trade Pact With South Korea
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama very much wants Congress to approve a new free-trade agreement with South Korea next year, but some powerful labor unions are already lining up against the deal, fearful it amounts to an invitation to employers to move jobs overseas. The AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers, International Association of Machinists and Communications Workers of America all said Thursday they intend to oppose the agreement, which would gradually knock down tariffs and other barriers to trade between the two countries. "We do not need to inflict further damage to our manufacturing base and the lives and ...
GOP Senators Targeted in Six-Figure DREAM Act Ad Buy
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA coalition of labor and advocacy groups has launched a "six-figure" ad campaign aimed at Republican senators whose votes are needed to pass the DREAM Act before the current session of Congress runs out. The AFL-CIO said Tuesday that the ads will run in print publications and on radio all this week in Maine, Boston, Miami, Houston and Las Vegas. The GOP lawmakers being targeted are: Florida Sen. George LeMieux; Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe; Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown; Nevada Sen. John Ensign; and Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Most of them voted for the ...
Union Officials Say Labor Could Save Congress for the Democrats
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe AFL-CIO is circulating an election analysis that says union voters could be the difference between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Speaker John Boehner. The group says there are heavy concentrations of union voters in about half of 75 seats held by endangered Democrats and in other battleground districts as well. "I'm not saying there won't be losses. There will be," AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman wrote in the memo. But she said that "outside the political party committees themselves, we have the largest political mobilization operation in the country." And she contended the ...
Opinion: Where Did the Jobs -- and Little Red Wagons -- Go?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- Etch A Sketch by the Ohio Art Co. is made in China. Radio Flyer red wagons: made in China. Levi's: made in Latin America and Asia. When these and other American icons left the country, so did millions of jobs. Many of the more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 600,000 information-sector jobs that have vanished in the past 10 years have been outsourced overseas. Outsourcing -- chasing low wages and lax regulation by shipping American jobs to other countries -- has been very good for the corporate bottom line and very bad for people who work for a living. While 27 million ...
Math Check: New York Times Fudges Auto Workers' Salaries?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- How much do auto workers really make nowadays? On Thursday, the New York Times ran a piece on General Motors' plans to build a new subcompact car in the United Sates with union labor. Deep into the story, the reporters (Bill Vlasik and Nick Bunkley) cited the following figures on auto workers' salaries: "Where the average G.M. worker earned over $70 an hour in wages and benefits before bankruptcy, the figure is now about $57, according to a study the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.," they wrote. Indispensable economist Dean Baker, who writes a blog critiquing ...
Labor Group Sends Out 2.5 Million Mailers Targeting GOP Candidates
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFollowing up on its promise to spend big and fight hard for Democrats this election year, the nation's largest labor federation sent out 2.5 million campaign mailers Monday, going after GOP candidates in nearly 50 congressional and gubernatorial races. The aggressive mail campaign by the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union accuses Republicans of being anti-union, wanting to privatize Social Security, being too close to Wall Street donors, and opposing basic worker safety requirements, The Huffington Post reported: But it's some of the specific attacks -- in addition to the ...
Democrats, Labor and the Morning After: What's the Cure for Midterm Malaise?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyUnions are very good at turning out their members to vote, and often deliver the few extra percentage points that can swing a close race to a Democrat. The party has never needed those voters, and labor's money and organization, more than now. But will they come through this year? The 2010 midterm elections are a huge remove from the exhilarating days of 2006 and 2008, when Democrats and labor were on offense, armed with anti-Bush passion and highly motivated voters. This year poll after poll shows Republicans are chomping at the bit to vote, while Democrats are dealing with the double-whammy ...
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