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Vol. 1, Issue 15
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Scott Marshall,
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Melissa ORourke, Labor Commission Coordinator, Labor UpFront editor
In This
Newsletter:
Striking Machinists at
Boeing ask:
How do you hide $13 billion?
Strike called against
Renault job cuts
Election 2008:
Machinist’s
Union Endorsement of Obama shows high level of labor unity.
From the Steelworkers Blog: Sarah Palin, explain
yourself, or stop using the USW as a prop
Ammunition for labor and the elections:
Union Jobs
(still more needed!)
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Striking Machinists at Boeing ask: How do
you
hide $13 billion?
By John Wojick
Peoples Weekly World
How do you hide $13 billion? Do you stuff it in an airplane? Do you
give it to the CEO? Or, do you share it with your workers?
These questions are printed on union flyers being distributed by
thousands of striking Boeing workers at locations in Washington state,
Oregon and Kansas as the total shutdown of the nation’s largest
airplane maker entered its second day. (continue
here)
Read
the latest on the Boeing Strike at the Machinist’s Strike Blog
(here)
What you can do to help:
* Help get the word out to support the striking Boeing
Workers – write letters to the editors – get on talk shows – talk it up
at work.
* Visit the picketline – express your solidarity and bring coffee
and… if you are near Everett or Seattle, Washington; Wichita, Kansas;
or Gresham, Oregon.
* Pass resolutions of support and send messages of solidarity. Send
copies to: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, AFL-CIO, 9125 15th
Pl. S., Seattle, WA 98108.
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Strike called against Renault
job cuts
French carmaker
Renault has given its works council members details of plans to cut the
number of employees.
There are to be a total of 4,000 voluntary redundancies and the CGT
union responded by calling a one-day strike at all of Renaults
factories in France for Thursday. (Read
more here)
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Election
’08
Machinist’s
Union
Endorsement of Obama shows high level of labor unity.
This week the
International Association of Machinists energetically endorsed Barack
Obama. The endorsement is important not only because the IAM is a major
industrial union with significant membership in key Midwest
battleground states, but also because it brings labor unity in this
election year to a whole new level. Perhaps for the first time ever
there is total labor unity around a candidate for the presidency. As
Gerald McEntee, president of AFSCME told the People’s Weekly World this
week, This latest action by the Machinists gives us a historic first
a united labor movement with everyone on board to elect Obama. It is no
exaggeration to say we are now united fully and we have the best
grassroots operation in our history. We are out there telling our
members that the issues are jobs, trade policies that work for our
people, peace, and the right to organize unions.
Read the IAM press release endorsing Barack Obama (here).
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From the Steelworkers Blog: Sarah Palin, explain
yourself, or stop using the USW as a prop
Inquiring minds want to know, Ms.
Palin. Where do you stand on Employee Free Choice? Where do you stand
on privatization of social security? Where do you stand on job-killing
free trade?
Are you with McCain and against workers on these issues? If so, you
need to stop using your husbands membership in the USW as a prop,
because then his union card cannot possibly cover up your or John
McCains worker-savaging positions. (Read
more here)
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Ammunition
for labor and the elections:
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Union
Jobs (We need more
listings!)
Chicago: IBEW: further info is
available at www.ejatt.com
Chicago Education-to-Careers: http://www.cisco.org/etc/apprec.htm
Nationwide railroad jobs: http://www.unionpacific.jobs/careers/explore/index.shtml
There is also a website, http://www.unionjobs.com/ that
lists union
jobs, including staff, trades and apprenticeships, by state.
Keep them coming!!!! In an
effort to assist young
workers in finding decent-paying union jobs, Im requesting that anyone
who knows of job openings or apprenticeships, in all fields and across
the country, please forward that information to laborupfront@cpusa.org.
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