3/28/2011: On Triangle fire, Maine mural removal, and squeezing the workers:
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Showing posts with label public unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public unions. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2012
On Unions
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Middle Class Fights Back: Wisconsin and more
(related content at: On Unions, "Class Warfare" and "It's the Economy, Stupid" posts)
Those greedy, lazy
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Teachers vs. Wall Street 3/2011
Contact Scott Walker directly : govgeneral@wisconsin.gov or (608) 266-1212\
On the Protests/Argument
- Sarah Palin Bombs In Wisconsin As Only 6,500 Attend Tea Party Rally, Politicus (April 16, 2011):
- "Forget being a presidential candidate, Sarah Palin isn’t even a decent headliner"
- More on Sarah Palin in this separate blog entry
- MoJo, 3/1/2011: How will it keep going?
- Baacklash: Cops, firefighters turn on GOP in labor fight - POLITICO.com (3/2011)
- Wisconsin Poll: Republican Enthusiasm Gap Vanishes in Wisconsin. Silver lining. 3/2011
- Daily Kos: Majority of early emails sent to Scott Walker were oppositional ((3/2011)
- The Republican governor's budget plan would open the state up to a corporate asset-grab not seen since robber baron capitalism (3/2011, Guardian)
- A peek into Governor Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" reveals a shop of horrors that is just the opposite of actually repairing the budget. Among the items listed in the bill until Wednesday night were selloffs of state power generation facilities – in no-bid contracts notoriously prone to insider dealing. The 37 facilities he wants to sell off that produce heating and cooling at low cost to the state's universities and prisons. Walker's budget repair bill would have unloaded them at a low price, presumably to campaign contributors such as Koch Industries – and then stick the bill for producing this power at higher rates to Wisconsin taxpayers in perpetuity. (And this is all being sold as a "taxpayer relief" plan!) Invariably, this will make its way into new legislation once attention is diverted from the current controversy.
- Walker Emails show steps considered to punish Democrats (3/2011)
- Catholic Bishops Back Wis. Union Protesters - Beliefnet News (3/2011)
- The Back Forty » Hey, GOP: How’s That Union-busting Thing Working Out for You? (5/12/2011)
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Government/Public Employee Compensation
- Wisconsin public unions: Don't join the government to get rich | The Economist (2/2011)
Monday, February 21, 2011
Push Back: GOP overreaches on Family Planning, Workers' Rights
Hi all, I'm away from home & internet access so I wil be very brief--I have been so transfixed by all of the events in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain. Things have been moving so fast lately. And the Wisconsin protest is extremely encouraging--it seems that the middle-class is finally finding its voice to push back against the big $$ interests that have been squeezing them/us for decades!
Here are some quick actions (Timing is KEY--some of these things are NOW):
The LONGEVITY of the Wisconsin protests is key: LOCAL BUSINESSES ARE HELPING FEED THE PROTESTERS:
donate a pizza, some bagels or fresh produce at one of the businesses below! (many protesters are taking time off and incurring personal expenses--let's support them!)
donate a pizza, some bagels or fresh produce at one of the businesses below! (many protesters are taking time off and incurring personal expenses--let's support them!)
- Ian's Pizza 608 257-9248;
- Michelangelo's coffee/pastries 608 251-5299;
- Gotham Bagels 608 467-7642
- Willy Street Co-op (608) 251-6776 http://bit.ly/goISmV
- "Straight to Your Door" Delivery Service: $3 off with coupon "KILLTHEBILL":
(And spread the word!! A little bit from everyone can go far!)
Boston Rally to support rights to Collective Bargaining and Wisconsin Workers
For a quick overview --From CNN money no less--on why unions are important to the middle class. (And here's a response to those who say "teachers already make too much")
RALLY on Tuesday: PLEASE ask your friends/family to attend!
If you want to do carpool--I can send out word of cars available etc
- STATE HOUSE/Boston
- 4-6PM Tuesday (TOMORROW)
- Bring the kids, bring friends, bring signs (not required!)!
Support the WI Dems who are standing up to GOP overreach
- -Donate to the 14 Democrats who are pushing back against Governor Walker! (may I suggest $14 for 14 senators!)--let's send the message to Democrats that when they stand up for us, we stand up for them! (and let's face it, $$$ is the only message the media and politicians seem to understand clearly)
Defunding Planned Parenthood (defunding Title X)
- GOP is waging culture war against women again. Last week the GOP House passed a bill to strip organizations like Planned Parenthood of their funding--NONE of which goes to abortion anyway, by the way (always prohibited by the Hyde Amendment.). It now goes to the Senate. That means calls to Scott Brown ARE VERY IMPORTANT. And a call to Lynch thanking him for voting against the bill would be nice too.
- -Urge Brown to vote no: do not defund Title X
Phones: Boston -- (617) 565-3170
Washington, DC -- (202) 224-4543
FAX: (202) 228-2646 (you can use services like FaxZero.com to send free faxes from the internet!)
- -Thank Lynch for voting no: 202-225-8273
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THESE ACTIONS: your 1 phone call, $5 donation can turn into $15 and 3 calls if you just get 2 friends to do the same!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THESE ACTIONS: your 1 phone call, $5 donation can turn into $15 and 3 calls if you just get 2 friends to do the same!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Class Warfare (Wealth inequality, etc)
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Distribution of Wealth
- Why the truly alarming economic trend is not income inequality. It's the Wealth Gap, Stupid | Mother Jones (2/13/2012)
- The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that the rich have been getting richer. : CBO | Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 (10/25/2011)
- Young Turks covers this CBO report
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| From CBO report, Oct 25 2011 |
(chart from MoJo's "It's the Inequality, Stupid")
Growing Pie? shrinking pieces for 99%- How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker | MichaelMoore.com (May 10, 2011)
- Divide and Conquer; convince you that you have to fight for an ever smaller piece of the pie. (robert reich, "The Republican Strategy" (Feb 2011)
- "They pit average working Americans against one another, distract attention from the almost unprecedented concentration of wealth and power at the top, and conceal Republican plans to further enlarge and entrench that wealth and power."
- ONE | Catholic bishops to US House: ‘Make the poor a top priority’ (4/14/2011)
Poverty, Income inequality...
There's a War on the Middle Class
- Corporate Profits Just Hit An All-Time High, Wages Just Hit An All-Time Low - Business Insider - (6/22/2012) http://goo.gl/yk4jh
- As Big Bank Stocks Plunge, CEOs Continue To Reap Huge Salaries | ThinkProgress (1/2/2012)
- Bottom Line - CEOs rake in huge sums when their companies go bankrupt (1/27/2012)
- Wall St. Record pay when regular Americans facing unemployment, stagnant wages (2/4/2011)--the study is by Wall Street Journal: $135 billion in compensation. Exec payouts = 1/3 of the total Wall St bank bailout ($417billion)
- Review: The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett | Books | The Guardian (3/13/2009)
- the life-diminishing results of valuing growth above equality in rich societies can be seen all around us. Inequality causes shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives; it increases the rate of teenage pregnancy, violence, obesity, imprisonment and addiction; it destroys relationships between individuals born in the same society but into different classes; and its function as a driver of consumption depletes the planet's resources.
- Wilkinson, a public health researcher of 30 years' standing, has written numerous books and articles on the physical and mental effects of social differentiation. He and Pickett have compiled information from around 200 different sets of data, using reputable sources such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the US Census, to form a bank of evidence against inequality that is impossible to deny.
- 21 CEOs With $100 Million Golden Parachutes | Mother Jones (1/18/2012)
- Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed | Truthout (10/28/2011)
- Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% - Vanity Fair (5/2011) 1% of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
- The Forgotten Truth That Conservatives Created The Welfare State Ray Medeiros/Politicus 2/2011 ( Low wages push ppl onto welfare)
- Executive Bonuses Bounce Back - WSJ.com (3/18/2011)
- Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession - IPS (Sept 2010)
- Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging - IPS (Sept 2011)
- The Rich Get Richer: CEO Bonuses Skyrocket; Worker Pay Flat | Mother Jones 3/18/2011
- War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash | Crooks and Liars (3/2011)
- "250K Isn't Rich If You're A CEO But 50K is Rich If You're A Teacher": Ray Medeiros 3/2011
- "It's the Inequality, Stupid" -MoJo 3/2011, great CHARTS AND GRAPHS abt income inequality
- Poverty Scorecard: 2010 scorecard analysis
- "Executive Excess 2010: Exec Pay and the Great Recession", 9/2010, Institute for Policy Studies
- the CEOs who slashed their payrolls the deepest took home 42 percent more compensation than the year’s chief executive pay average for S&P 500 companies.
- American workers, by contrast, are taking home less in real weekly wages than they took home in the 1970s
- Politifact:True: , just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined," (Michael Moore statement in Wisconsin 3/2011)
- On redistribution of wealth : Does The Bible Mix Religion and Politics? - The Christian Left Blog (6/2/2011)
There's a War on the Middle Class
- House moved to kill HAMP/Obama Mortgage Plan (CNN Money) - Mar. 29, 2011
- Robert Reich (The Republican Strategy) 2/17/2011
- - split the vast middle and working class – pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don’t believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class.
- How the middle class became the underclass (And how the DECLINE OF UNIONS hastens the decline of the middle class)- CNN Money Feb. 16, 2011
- Gov Walker's threat to American political stability (Huffpo, Steven Cohen, 3/2011)
- The American middle class owes its existence to the fact and threat of union organizing. That is why the attack on public workers' right to collective bargaining is an attack on the middle class
- Michael Moore, "The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far", Alternet 3/6/2011
- 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have more loot, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true
- Michael Moore: We Face a Global War on the Middle Class, AlterNet 3/2011
- "Foreclosure Follies" House Republicans have introduced bills to eliminate four federal antiforeclosure programs and replace them with — nothing - NYT Ed, 3/2011
- The American Dream is Disappearing for This Generation! - Brian Conners, 2/2011 (compares our econ. situation to Egypt)
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[this post was getting too long; I've split off the UNION links to its own blog post]
(related content on Unions and Wisconsin at "Middle Class Fights Back" and "It's the Economy, Stupid" posts)
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