David Macaray: 194 Years of Scabs

David Macaray: 194 Years of Scabs:

"In time of war, a pacifist who’d rather empty bedpans and change soiled sheets is called a “conscientious objector.” In time of war, a person who betrays his own country by taking up arms for the enemy is called a “traitor.” And an employee who refuses to join his fellow union members in a legally mandated strike, or a person who crosses a picket line in order to steal someone else’s job is, appropriately, called a “scab.”"


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Alliance for Retired Americans praises Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL),

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 "Rep. Schakowsky plans to keep Social Security benefits intact, while making deep reductions at the Pentagon by cutting what many consider unnecessary weapons systems and reducing troop levels. She calls for a rise in corporate taxes on companies that outsource jobs, as well as controlling excessive pay for chief executives.
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 Over half the proposed budget cut - $430 billion annually in 2015 - would be achieved by eliminating various corporate tax breaks, ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and creating a new energy tax through the cap-and-trade system. At the same time, a proposed additional $200 billion economic stimulus would create jobs and combat unemployment."

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Opinion: Unemployment benefits create jobs - Ross Eisenbrey - POLITICO.com

Opinion: Unemployment benefits create jobs - Ross Eisenbrey - POLITICO.com:

Yes, unemployment compensation makes workers less desperate to find a job. But it doesn’t change the number of available jobs.

"This means that, no matter how hard they try, only one out of five could possibly find a job. Four won’t — no matter how hard they try and no matter how desperate they are."

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Quote Details: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Every gun that is... - The Quotations Page

Image via WikipediaQuote Details: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Every gun that is... - The Quotations Page:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

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Corporate flimflammers suckering Congress, again

Image via CrunchBaseCorporate flimflammers suckering Congress, again:

"It’s not natural beauty that draws Google to the islands, but the fact that Bermuda assesses no taxes on corporate profits. Bottom line: Google escapes paying a billion dollars a year that it ethically owes in U.S. taxes."

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When the axe came into the forest

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When the axe came into the forest,

 the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"

A man came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash-tree.

No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest.

An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, "The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages."

Chris Hedges: ‘Death of the Liberal Class’ - Book Excerpt - Truthdig

Image via WikipediaChris Hedges: ‘Death of the Liberal Class’ - Book Excerpt - Truthdig:

"Labor leaders make lavish salaries and are considered junior partners within corporate capitalism as long as they do not speak in the language of class struggle."

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That's What She Said

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That's What She Said: "When the show started, I thought it was going to be a doozy, with Pam conducting Sabre’s Hygiene Day, but it quickly shifted to something far more, well, mundane — and far more complicated — personal relationships at work."

this here is a pretty clever cross between an HR missive and The Office. take a peek.

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Strategies for Bargaining over the Impact of the PPACA on Employers

Health Care Reform and Collective Bargaining: Mid-Term and Long-Term Strategies for Bargaining over the Impact of the PPACA on Employers

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For employers facing collective bargaining in 2011 or 2012, the most important concept to keep in mind is "flexibility." Because of the uncertainty concerning the details of the changes to take place in 2014, very few employers will be in a position in 2011 or 2012 to predict accurately how to respond to the 2014 changes. Therefore, it generally will not be in the best interests of an employer to lock into any health care option for 2014 during collective bargaining that takes place in 2011/12. Employers entering into negotiations have four realistic bargaining strategies:
 (read full article and download .pdf)

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YouTube - One Nation Working.mov

YouTube - One Nation Working.mov:

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CWA supported the One Nation Working Together Rally at Washington, D.C. National mall on Saturday, October 10, 2010. Contrary to the imagery presented by self-serving corporate media, most Americans support diversity, justice, jobs, education and health care for all. Over 175,000 people from all over the country assembled, on short notice, to pledge support for policies and politicians who will fight to maintain and extend a fair share of the American dream.
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