Hawthorne, John

First Name: 
John
Last Name: 
Hawthorne
Address: 
2250 Snowshoe Lane
St. Paul, MN 55119

mitchell, norbert

First Name: 
norbert
Last Name: 
mitchell
Address: 
6125 lilac dr n apt314
brooklyn center, MN 55430

obedoza, james

First Name: 
james
Last Name: 
obedoza
Address: 
8479 knollwood drive
moundsview, MN 55112

Stand Up To Banks (Occupy MN)

Date: 
Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:00am - 11:00pm

www.occupymn.org

The People's Plaza
300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55487

Newkirk, Thomas

First Name: 
Thomas
Last Name: 
Newkirk
Address: 
9330 Nantwick Lane
Brooklyn Park, MN 55443

Kirley, Daniel

First Name: 
Daniel
Last Name: 
Kirley
Address: 
615 107TH LN NW
Coon Rapids, MN 55448
ATU International

Union Meeting

Date: 
Tue, 09/27/2011 (All day)

Just Jobs Network: Can Global Economy Share the Wealth?

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 4:33pm

The global economy has been very good to the very rich–but not so much for the 212 million people who are unemployed worldwide, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).  

The Center for American Progress (CAP) yesterday launched the Just Jobs Network, which will bring together scholars and institutions from around the world to explore how best to extend the benefits of the global economy to all of the workers. These experts will analyze employment policies and labor markets in their respective areas.

Just Jobs Network members will share knowledge and experiences and draw attention to the issue of just jobs— jobs complete with labor rights, appropriate remuneration, social protections such as health care and pensions, and opportunities for economic mobility.

Members of the Just Jobs Network Advisory Committee include AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who was represented at the launch by AFL-CIO International Director Cathy Feingold. Said Feingold:

Workers worldwide are struggling to improve their working and living conditions, whether they’re striking in China to improve wages and working conditions or marching in the United Kingdom to protest massive cuts to the public sector. Just jobs, or decent work, needs to be at he center of the global recovery. 

 As CAP President John Podesta said in a statement:

In a world closely connected through technology and flows of people, goods, services, and capital, everyone—thought and policy leaders, labor, businesses, and civil society—must work together to address this urgent challenge.

Ohio Workers Rally to Help the Jobless, Slam Tax Cuts for the Rich

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 4:08pm

Ohio AFL-CIO Field Communications staffer Andrew Richards sends us this report.

Braving near single-digit temperatures, dozens of jobless Portsmouth workers rallied outside the office of Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) yesterday to demand she and other congressional Republicans stop using an extension of unemployment insurance (UI) as political leverage to continue tax cuts for the wealthy.

Workers chanted “pass unemployment now” and held signs saying, “We need good jobs now” and “Unemployed held hostage by GOP tax cuts for rich,” as passing cars honked in support.

Republican leaders have blocked action on maintaining the unemployment insurance benefits for long-term jobless that expired Nov. 30. They are holding it and other legislation hostage until they get a vote on extending Bush-era tax cuts. The White House and Republicans have agreed to a deal that includes the tax cuts and a 13-month extension of unemployment insurance. But the deal’s fate is uncertain.

“No one here wants to be unemployed,” said Mitch Lewis, a member of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 575 and currently unemployed.

They all want to work and support their families…But you have to have jobs…We need jobs now.

The situation for workers in Schmidt’s district is particularly dire. Working families in her district face some of the highest unemployment rates in the state.  Unemployment is more than 14 percent in Pike County—one of five counties in Schmidt’s district—more than 12 percent in Scioto County where Portsmouth is located.

More than 588,000 workers are currently unemployed in Ohio and, if Republicans continue to hold unemployment hostage, over 100,000 Ohioans will lose their unemployment insurance by the end of the month. Says IBEW Local 575 member Steve Sands:

If you take the unemployment lifeline away from the unemployed, and they have gone through their pensions, through their savings, there is nothing left.  This is their lifeline If we can’t get jobs here now; please let’s provide the lifeline for the jobless.

P.R. Crippen, an unemployed worker from Carpenters Local 437, said he tried to contact  Schmidt multiple times about the unemployment extension but did not hear back.

Tax cuts for billionaires are what they want to get to extend unemployment for 13 months. Well, that ain’t going to work.

Following the rally, Austin Keyser, Shawnee Central Labor Council secretary-treasurer, Michael Malone a Local 437 member and unemployed worker, newly-elected Portsmouth Mayor David Malone and City Council President John Haas delivered petitions from thousands of Ohioans to Schmidt’s district office staff.

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