cswholesaleunite.blogspot.com
C&S Wholesale workers unite!: The Truth about forming a union at Stanley
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Feb 22, 2008. The Truth about forming a union at Stanley. This story can also be read over at Vermont workers' Center. It was written by. The Truth About Forming A Union at Stanley. Published in the St. Albans Messenger, Saturday, Feb 16th in support of workers forming a union at Stanley Inc, a federal contractor at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service center in St. Albans]. Myth #1: Only the Department of Labor (DOL) can do anything about wage increases. Truth: There currently is a DOL investiga...
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Amherst | Valley Post
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Award-winning news from the Pioneer Valley, Brattleboro, and Keene. June 11, 2016. April 14, 2016. Photo: Verizon Workers' Picket Line. April 14, 2016. 34 Climate Protesters Arrested. At UMass Amherst, police arrested 34 people for non-violent civil disobedience on April 12 and April 13. The protesters were calling on the university to divest from fossil fuels. More information is at their web page: www.facebook.com/divestUmass. March 07, 2016. November 21, 2015. March to Stop Climate Change. In Amherst ...
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Domestic and Care Worker Organizing | The Discount Foundation
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Skip directly to content. Organizing for Worker Justice. Domestic and Care Worker Organizing. For the Connecticut Domestic Workers Organizing Project. Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. General operating support for expanding benefits and protections for domestic workers in California and Los Angeles. Mujeres Unidas y Activas. General operating support for domestic worker organizing. TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund. For pioneering a new model of home care worker organizing. General...
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L3 Blog | Category Archive | Good News
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The latest news from L3 – Leaders Building Legacies for Life. RSS for this section. April 21, 2015. Members in the news. Comments ( 0 ). Dr Adizes publishes another sure to be amazing book. New Book Releases by Dr. Adizes. Insights on Management II. Dr Ichak Kalderon Adizes. Adizes Publications, 2014. May 12, 2014. Comments ( 0 ). Philanthropist of the Month: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. When we started Ben and Jerry’s. Was created to distribute these gifts. In the beginning,. In addition to the grant...
highroadvt.blogspot.com
High Road Vermont: January 2008
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Promoting Good Jobs and Healthy Communities. Thursday, January 31, 2008. It's a Bad Deal! As the above chart. Lambasting the bi-partisan House/White House deal. According to the Economic Policy Institute, “the White House plan suffers from very poor targeting, and thus fails on two critical criteria: efficiency and equity. In recent years, excluding low-income households from the rebate also fails on the criterion of fairness. We need a plan that provides immediate. The following excerpts from. President...
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Domestic Left: Practicing our scales
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Irregular diary and recipe book of a left-wing housewife in drag. Sunday, November 11, 2012. I think we need a deeper conversation about how organizers can think of our work as cultural work, and how (left) cultural workers can think of their work as organizing. However, none of this really matters if we can't, as it's often put, "organize to scale." Having been in and around conversations on this question as a staff person at NDWA. A leader and strategist at the Vermont Workers Center. This is not to sa...
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Where is the Dickens of our time? | Easily Distracted - now in California
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Easily Distracted – now in California. Random thoughts on life. Where is the Dickens of our time? Where is the Dickens of our time? February 17, 2013. 8220;The present splendid brotherhood of fiction-writers in England, whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together” – Karl Marx. Where are the novelists like Dickens, Twain, Upton Sinclair or Steinbeck today? You ar...
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