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atuuschaaw	Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:52 am
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 781 Location: an ahwangan	Quote: U.S. employers have quietly been raking in extraordinarily high profits for the past two years while holding wages down and shifting more benefit costs onto workers. Real wages will decline further as economic growth slows in the United States and worldwide over the next year. read more... _________________ "Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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Pearson	Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:26 pm
Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1417 Location: Sun City AZ	This is a great catch A. One of the probelms for almost all organizations and bureaucracies is their failure to use outcome based measurements. They tend to look at stuff with a spin doctored eye; all too often the president proclaims whatever they did was a success and hence they did a great job. Oops; in this case the ruler can be laid against he results and what we find is it ain't working like it should. Without a strong, vibrant labor movement, employers do as they want. Your link to the stats says it all: Workers have become losers with a cpaital L. I've got an idea, lets blame the members cause they don't get involved. Nice, now we see it isn't the leaderships fault at all; it's those pesky irresponsible do nothing members. _________________ If we don't do it, who will?
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catbear955	Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:04 am
Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 136 Location: Upland, Ca.	One of the things that I realized when I began studying labor law, was that history was (and is) repeating itself! We are at one of the lowest points in decades. Wages are stagnant, the Right to Work folks are spending like crazy to advance their agenda in the courts, and the Bush appointees are filling up the judicial vacancies.(It still amazes me that the Ralphs folks got their hand slapped by the Feds...) When the federal minimum wage is still at $5.15 per hour,overtime laws are being eroded,and even breaks and mealtimes are threatened---the states are our only hope for any meaningful gains. But, since I live in a state where the median price of a home could soon surpass $500K---even $7.25 is not enough. Nor is $17.90! We might as well be back in the Roaring '20's---and don't think that there won't be a market collapse to follow! The delicate nature of the stock market, straining under the incredible expense involved in financing multiple national disasters, and an expensive war effort on foreign soils---when will the camel's back break? The next great earthquake? More hurricanes? N.Y. under water? A crazy North Korean? The money machine could grind to a halt, and here we will all be---without our infrastructure of consumerism, bereft of utilities, under martial law, and facing a challenge we are ill-prepared to meet. Oh, and owned by foreign financiers. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm ready to live off the grid if I have to. But I will continue to fight, meanwhile, for human rights on the job---a living wage, affordable benefits, a protected retirement, and dignity and safety while at work. No matter what the future brings, we can't give up on working families' needs as easily as the Bushies would like. _________________ ...a dream lives on forever...
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loonietunes	Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:06 am
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 1210	catbear-955 we must purge the UFCW crap before we can hope to rebuild. I have heard good things about your Local no question- -and there are a few others in California that are on the right road--but many other structures and Local Leaders have got to go period--no ands--ifs--or butts. LT
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