HK Cartoons: Democrats need to start paying back those IOUs to labor

There is a lot of truth here. The Democrats owes labor a lot of IOUs.

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We are the champions, my friend

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WIN: Labor's view on ObomneyCare

What does SCOTUS upholding the ACA mean for you?

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Organized labor is hailing the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry says the Supreme Court rejected the cynical politics of Republicans opposed to health care reform and working people won a resounding victory.

National Nurses United says the ruling shouldn’t be the end of health care activists’ efforts to find a permanent fix for America’s broken health care system.

The nurse’s union says it will step up a campaign for a universal health care program based on patient need, not on profits or ability to pay – a Medicare for all.

The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said now that the Affordable Care Act has been upheld healthcare has been put within reach of working families and they will be able to get treatment they need without battling big insurance companies.

Families USA was one of many organizations that had been arguing for the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruling came down Executive Director Ron Pollack held a conference call to tout what the upholding of the Act meant.

Pollack noted:

No longer will they be able to charge a discriminatory premium based on health status, like an adult who may have high blood pressure. No longer will a health company be able to discriminate against women in the premiums they charge exclusively because of their gender.

We spoke with National Medical Association President Dr. Cedrick Bright about why his organization supporting the legislation.

Bright stated:

The law helps to catch the vulnerable people, we'll have a safety net for vulnerable people who fall through the cracks. The law does allow, does not allow for insurance to deny any type of patients coverage if you have pre-existing conditions. The law doesn not allow for insurance to cancel your coverage when you get sick. The law allows you to continue to get care while in the past there were limits on the care you could receive.

One aspect of the act that isn’t discussed very often is how it will specifically benefit women.

Some 19 million women are currently uninsured, but in 2014 part of the law kicks in that will make Medicaid available to 10.3 million women.

Women, on average, pay higher rates for health insurance, but part of the law now prohibits insurance companies from charging based on gender rating.

Additionally, the law takes a big leap when it comes to maternity laws in the United States.

Businesses with more than 50 employees will now be required to allow nursing women to take a break for the purpose of relieving breast milk.

graphic: San Antonio business Journal

source: Workers Independent News

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Republican NLRB Board Member Resigns After Leaking Board Documents To Romney campaign

Terence Flynn resigns before he got fired 

Republican National Labor Relations Board member Terence Flynn has resigned after the board’s Inspector General found Flynn had leaked confidential internal labor board documents to two former NLRB members who were working to undermine and discredit the board.

One of them, Peter Schaumber, is a former co-chair of Mitt Romney’s labor committee. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka had called for Flynn’s resignation in March.

Mitt Romney made these comments before his labor adviser resigned:

I’m very concerned our president has pursued labor policies that are destructive to industry, to hiring and to job growth, Those policies are one reason America is having a very difficult time coming out of this economic slowdown.

Romney added he would encourage states to pass right to work laws, as South Carolina has done.

The NLRB had ruled against Boeing because it had broken the law. Terence Flynn had disclosed confidential documents about the ruling to Peter Schaumber. 

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Where is the next Mother Jones?

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones  born in Cork, Ireland, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

She worked as a teacher and dressmaker but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever.  After  her workshop was destroyed in a fire in 1871 she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union.

She was a very effective speaker, punctuating her speeches with stories, audience participation, humor and dramatic stunts. 

From 1897 (when she was 60) she was known as Mother Jones and in 1902 she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. 

In 1903, upset about the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a Children's March from Philadelphia to the home of then president Theodore Roosevelt in New York.

source: Wikipedia

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Stephen Colbert: Change We Can Believe In

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Barack Obama's plan to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy pits rich against poor, but luckily, the poor aren't buying it. (05:08)

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MoveOn.org: Helen Keller Quote

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American labor needs a Marshall plan

Joe Uehlein pickets the White House

1/19/2012

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By Doug Cunningham

The Labor Network For Sustainability’s Joe Uehlein expects big oil to continue to push for the Keystone Pipeline in the wake of President Obama’s decision refusing to approve it for now. Uehlein says the pipeline and the burning of oil tar sands in Canada would be an environmental disaster and America must come up with the equivalent of a Marshal Plan for a sustainable environmentally friendly economy.

[Uehlein]: “A Marshal Plan-style program to rebuild our energy infrastructure, our communications infrastructure, our water infrastructure. Programs that would one, put people to work right away and two, would help solve the climate crisis. We can’t do it by nibbling around the edges with one little bill here, one little bill there.”

Uehlein says President Obama was especially courageous in turning down the pipeline for now, especially in light of a political threat from the Petroleum Institute.

By Doug Cunningham

The Labor Network For Sustainability’s Joe Uehlein expects big oil to continue to push for the Keystone Pipeline in the wake of President Obama’s decision refusing to approve it for now. Uehlein says the pipeline and the burning of oil tar sands in Canada would be an environmental disaster and America must come up with the equivalent of a Marshal Plan for a sustainable environmentally friendly economy.

Uehlein  added:

A Marshal Plan-style program to rebuild our energy infrastructure, our communications infrastructure, our water infrastructure. Programs that would one, put people to work right away and two, would help solve the climate crisis. We can’t do it by nibbling around the edges with one little bill here, one little bill there.

Uehlein says President Obama was especially courageous in turning down the pipeline for now, especially in light of a political threat from the Petroleum Institute.

See  http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2011/08/24/from-picket-lines-to-the-white-house-labor-leader-joins-keystone-xl-protest/ for more informnation on Joe Uehlein.

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Huge labor victory: Ohio labor defeats Ohio issue Number 2, SB5

This was a huge defeat for ohio Governor john Kasich who had tried to ban collective bargaining for public unions.

MSNBC's Ed Schultz was covering the event and with 12 per cent of the vote in, the vote was against the proposition by a 2:1 margin.

Governor Kasich supposedly will want a compromise, but the Dems should stand firm and tell him that he lost and to get to work creating jobs in Ohio.

One of the Democratic Ohio senators said the compromise should have been worked out in the general assembly when the bill was being crafted,  not after a huge labor victory.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said: 

One message rang loud and clear tonight in Ohio and across the country: those who spend their time scapegoating workers and pushing a partisan agenda will only strengthen the resolve of working people,From the very beginning, it’s been clear that Gov. Kasich, and indeed many politicians, were pushing an agenda that was about politics, not about solving our nation’s problems or creating jobs.

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Huck & Konapacki Labor Cartoons: The New Red Menace

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Huffington Post: Gov . Rick Scott activates labor backlash

WASHINGTON -- Garrett Lamp, a fireman, has been a lifelong Republican. He voted for Jeb Bush for governor and even worked on a few political campaigns.

He calls himself a social conservative, but he will be going to the local Supervisor of Elections and changing his party identification to "Independent."

"As a public safety employee, as a fireman, as a father of three children [and] my sister has a special needs child, I'm fed up with the ridiculous cuts that are being made right and left," Lamp told The Huffington Post.

"It's almost like the Republicans are in a feeding frenzy, decimating working-class families,” He added.

You can't do away with taxes for corporations and put it on the backs of middle-class working people, and that's what they're doing.

On Sunday, Lamp posted a message on his Facebook wall:

Join me on Wednesday at 11:30 at the Viera Supervisor of Elections as I become an Independent Voter.

Lamp said that in the past he had consistently voted for Republicans; but he never fully trusted Gov. Rick Scott . He voted for Democrat Alex Sink in the 2010 gubernatorial race.

A bill, sponsored by state Sen. John Thrasher (R), would prohibit state and local governments from automatically deducting union dues from employees' paychecks. Union members would also have to give written consent before their dues are used for political purposes.

But as Politifact noted, "Employees automatically have money taken out of their paycheck to pay for all kinds of things. The state of Florida currently has 364 groups or agencies that have the ability to take money directly from employees' paychecks."

Lamp’s could serve as a warning for GOP governors around the nation who are battling the labor community in the run-up to the 2012 elections.

Lamp is a member of the International Association of Firefighters union.

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‘Right to Work’ law Claims ‘Utterly’ Without Merit

by Mike Hall, Apr 5, 2011

When lawmakers—usually with the backing of corporations and right-wing, anti-worker groups—push for so-called right to work laws, they claim it will bring business and jobs to their states. Nothing could be further from the truth, says economist Gordon Lafer.

Lafer testified earlier today before a New Hampshire state Senate committee on proposed “right to work” for less legislation. In a study released this morning by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), he shines a light on the deceptive methodology used to derive these claims and the harm the laws could have on New Hampshire’s economy.

Backers of the proposed legislation cite figures from the National Right to Work Committee to back up their job and economy claim. Says Lafer:

…the claims supplied by the Right to Work Committee are utterly without economic foundation. If a college student presented an analysis similar to the committee’s for a graduate thesis, it would be rejected for faulty methodology. In America, anyone is free to advocate a personal ideological agenda, but both legislators and the public at large deserve to know the difference between ideological passion and scientific fact.

In “Right-to-Work: Wrong for New Hampshire,” he writes:

Contrary to what RTW backers have claimed, the scientific analysis of right-to-work laws shows that they lower wages and benefits for both union and nonunion workers alike without exhibiting any positive impact on job growth.

Simply put, at a time of economic need, right-to-work laws are a prescription for further decline.

An earlier report, “The Compensation Penalty of ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws,” by EPI economists Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, found that wages in “right to work” states are 3.2 percent lower than in states without the law. Workers also are less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance and employer-sponsored pensions.

A bill to force “right to work” for less was introduced this morning in the Pennsylvania State House. Pennsylvania is the 13th state this year to consider such legislation.

Rightardia wonder why more research like this doesn't show up when Republican introduce baseless ideas like supply side economics.

In 2003, the Wall Street Journal declared the debate over supply-side economics to have ended "with a whimper" after extensive modeling performed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) failed to support the most extreme claims of supply-side policies.

All supply side economics as produced is the most unequal distribution of wealth and income since the Great Depression.  

The right towork laws are about weakening unions and the collection of union dues which are trivial. Unions, of course, are big contributors to the Democratic party.

Middle Class Warrior worked in a union and was proud to pay his dues. Of interest, the semi-scabs who didn't pay dues were the first to run to the union stewards when there was a problem with a 'bad manager."

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American workers got what they deserved

How many bags full, sir!

By Ray Buursma
Holland, MI — Are you an American employee? If so, today's column will likely offend you. If you'd rather not be offended, read no further. If you continue and then complain, I'm sorry, but that simply proves you're, well, stupid. But then again, stupidity plays a large role in today's topic.

Still reading? OK. You've had fair warning.So you're an American employee. Maybe you make car parts. Maybe you're an engineer or designer. Maybe you're an accountant, store clerk or tradesman. Whatever you do, you're probably stupid or lazy. Yes, I wrote it, and I mean it. You are either stupid or lazy. Maybe both.

Now, I'm not referring to your work ethic or job performance. No, most of you are competent and devoted to your profession or vocation. I'm addressing the way you view economics and employment. I'm challenging your gumption to advocate for yourself and your fellow Americans. 
(To read the entire article, click here.) 
Rightardia agrees. 

The American worker has gone to sleep and thinks corporations will take care of them. Nothing could be farther than the truth. 

The goal of the owner is to get your productivity as high as possible and sell the company when the owners  are middle aged so they can retire young.  They will keep your pay and benefits as low as possible as long as you permit them to do so. 


What is the answer. Get organized and form a  union. Americans need to get off their asses and get organized. 

Stop being a sheeple.


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Chicago Conservative | Examiner.com: Judge rules No Interference in Collective Bargaining

 Republicans are trying to destroy the union label.

"In a ruling that has far-reaching implications for Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri, a federal judge threw out labor law reforms at Chicago’s McCormick Place that the Illinois state legislature enacted in 2010 following supplication from the convention industry.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman affirms that collective bargaining rights cannot be overturned by governmental edict. Guzman told the Legislature “it had no business trying to interfere with collective bargaining” according to Marvin Gittler, an attorney representing Local 727 of the Teamsters."

The National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. The law  recognized as policy of the United States the encouragement of collective bargaining.

Rightardia agrees. What is the legal basis for overturning a civil contract between labor union and a corporate enterprise; or labor union and a government entity? 

This will end up back firing on the GOP and strengthening the union movement in the US. 

source:

Judge re: McPier - No Interference in Collective Bargaining - Chicago Conservative | Examiner.com


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Far Left Side: Sometimes you win the battle but lose the war

 What goes around, comes around. Some people call it Karma.

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Hysterical Raisins: Let's get the labor out of the Department of Labor

AUGUSTA, ME — Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine’s labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor because he wanted to present Maine as a business freindly government.

Worker advocates described the move as a “mean-spirited” provocation amid the administration’s high-tension standoff with unions.

The governor has scheduled the book burning for tomorrow. 

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Huck and Konopacki labor Cartoons: Wisconsin Uprising

Sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words.

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Huck and Konopacki labor Cartoons

The Koch Brother are master of class warfare.  Let's get the miidle calls up in arms about out neighbours who may be weathering the storm a bit better than people who never joined a union or applied for a government job.

Did any of these teacher, fire fighters, police or union workers have any idea where they would now be 30 or 40 years ago.

The major's ex-wife was absolutely convinced that private entrprise  was superior to government work and that the Major should resign form the Armed Services and get a private sector job.

The Major stayed in service and got a divorce. His ex wife was not terribly successful after she moved on and she and her next husband ended up in a nasty divorce very late in life.

How can predict the future. This story could have had a very different ending.

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The labor cartoons of Huck and Konapacki

Rightardia got approval today to feature the labor cartoons of Huck and Konopacki. We are excited about this. Here is the first one:

Gary Huck is political cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), an independent, progressive, national union based in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Gary is the only cartoonist employed full-time by a union in the U.S. His work has appeared in Business Week, the Washington Post, and The Center for American Progress and a wide range of other publications. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 1199 Gallery, New York City, The Salon of Cartoon Art, San Antonio, Cuba, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA and The Museum of Cartoon Art, San Francisco, CA.

Huck and Konopacki's original cartoons are in the permanent collection of New York University's Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

Mike Konopacki graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. 

He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. In 1983 he and Gary Huck created Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons, syndicating their cartoons to the labor press in the U.S. and Canada.

Since that time they have published six collections of labor cartoons, Bye! American, THEM, MAD in USA, Working Class Hero, Two Headed Space Alien Shrinks Labor Movement and the latest American Dread. With Alec Dubro Mike has written and drawn comic books and comics on the World Bank, welfare reform and union organizing.

Mike is co-author and illustrator of Howard Zinn's graphic history A People's History of American Empire. In May of 2009 Mike earned his Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Art Department. In 2010, Mike completed his MFA.

See their website at  http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/

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15,000 People Rally At Wisconsin's Capitol To Protest Governor's Union Busting

Chant: Kill The Bill! Forward, not backward!

Thousands of people rallied at Wisconsin’s capitol in Madison Tuesday to protest Governor Scott Walker’s attack on public worker collective bargaining rights. 

State workers, Madison Firefighters Local 311, students, union and non-union workers all gathered to defend labor union rights for public workers.

 "I say bull shit to Governor Walker."

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee vowed a strong fight for state worker rights.

McEntee: “This is an attack on every Wisconsin worker. It’s an attack on the freedoms of every Wisconsin citizen.

It’s about breakin’ the back of the middle class. It’s about repression, oppressing and dividing the workers of Wisconsin. Are we going to let them get away with that? No way!”

Jordan, a University from Wisconsin student from Menominee, marched into the rally with fellow students.

Jordan: “I would like to see workers to be able to retain their rights to collectively bargain as a unit and not be unfairly targeted by our governor.”

This Wisconsin teacher and American Federation of Teachers member welcomed the solidarity of Madison firefighters with other public workers and said Governor Walker’s attack on unions will hurt Wisconsin’s economy.

AFT Teacher: “We just saw the firefighters turning out, It was really, really important to see them rejecting Walker’s separating hem from us.

None of these proposal are gonna save the taxpayers money. They’re gonna destroy a good economy for the middle class.”

Labor needs to get off of its ass and  start to strike! We have a Democratic president in power. If Egypt can take its country back from an authoritarian dictator, labor can do the same thing in Wisconsin. 

Wisconsin also has a recall law and the authoritarian governor Walker can be recalled after his first year in office. 

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