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10546 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > If the rest of Change to Win rejoined the AFL-CIO and the reunited > federation turned en masse on SEIU, how long do you think you would > keep your job? Is that just a rhetorical question, or is there really some possibility that CTW could suffer defections back to the AFL-CIO? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 13:07:51 PDT 2007

10547 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

Jim Straub wrote: > The > labor geeks and professors are too busy talking about P9 and tdu to > ever get > to it. Someone wrote me offlist with the very interesting and pertinent question: why are laboristas so bitchy? Why the constant assertions of authenticity, and the constant dis'ing of (essentially sympathetic) intellectuals? And why the intense sensitivity to criticism? One thought my correspondent had was that when you're losing so big in the real world, then you lash out ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 13:05:53 PDT 2007

10548 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Yes, I wonder if Nathan will join Bob in using them and their anti- > union > cronies in the boss media to further his career, getting op-eds in > the nyt > and fauning coverage for his flop of a book. > > By the way stephen, bob's critiques of seiu are NOT spot on, they > are wrong > on every level, factually, analytically, and strategically. He is a > jackass. fuck him. I am full of plenty of tough love for andy ...

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10549 [lbo-talk] CTW goes to China -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 23, 2007 How U.S. Labor Leaders Chart a Global Course By ANDREW BATSON BEIJING -- U.S. labor leaders, taking a new approach to the challenges of globalization, plan to work more closely with their Chinese counterparts in hopes of raising wages and working standards in the country and thereby easing the competitive pressure on American workers. Wrapping up a five-day visit to mainland China, officials from the Change to Win labor coalition said they had found much co ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 10:47:59 PDT 2007

10550 [lbo-talk] more on Edwards -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> Book season is just beginning (two Clinton books next month), and Bob Shrum's memoir is being picked apart for Edwards tidbits. Shrum dismisses Edwards as "a Clinton who hadn't read the books," and says Kerry "wished that he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut" and chosen Dick Gephardt. As Michael Crowley sums it up on The New Republic's Website, " 'No Excuses&qu ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 08:39:14 PDT 2007

10551 [lbo-talk] gas price "tipping point": a little above current levels -- rank: 1000

[I saw a pundit on CNBC last week who said that polls consistently show the point at which Americans say that high gas prices will cause them to drive less is always about a quarter above present levels. While this poll doesn't exactly confirm that, the results are in line with the "somewhat above present levels" standard. In July 2006, the median "tipping point" tipping point was $3.50 and the price of gas was just over $3.00; now it's about $3.25, and the "tippin ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 06:36:25 PDT 2007

10552 [lbo-talk] Who is the worst american president... -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Wilson (Ubu's main competition) imprisoned Debs. Yeah I was just reading some on the Wilson years. The repression in WW I makes George W look like a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Mass roundups and deportations. The entire leadership of the IWW jailed. Socialist periodicals forbidden in the mails. Gotta watch those high-minded liberals. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 04:56:22 PDT 2007

10553 [lbo-talk] union salaries -- rank: 1000

Ok, so all you SEIU people on here - I just read up on your salaries on UnionFacts.com. Andy Stern makes 10-15 times as much as an organizer. A guy I know with an MBA makes almost $90,000, while the cleaners make $17,000. What's the internal debate like about the pay scale, if any? What's the justification for these gaps? How can people work 60 hours a week for $25,000 a year and not go mad? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:57:44 PDT 2007

10554 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This list provides an endless supply of > tautologies. "All truth is a deep tautology." - Harold Bloom

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:53:21 PDT 2007

10555 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

<http://unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=137> "A powerful local of Stern's SEIU budgeted another $35 million of its members' money on political advocacy in 2004, according to union activist and lawyer Nathan Newman." Ha! Nathan joins Bob Fitch as a left source for UnionFacts!

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:35:24 PDT 2007

10556 [lbo-talk] 4 in 10 Americans have friends or relatives who are gay -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Change is always brought about in the first instance by a minority, > only confirmed later, first by a larger minority, then by a majority. My aunt-in-law Jane Mansbridge is working on a book called Everyday Feminism. Her argument is that social movements like feminism go through a very visible, organized early phase, and then ebb at the public level while they continue to do their work at the private or personal level. Doug

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10557 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > The problem described in your report was not "widespread > antagonism" but one of perceived comparative weakness of US > imperial power. They're related, you know. Sophisticated imperialists know that you need assent to rule, and that armed force should only be a last resort - and when you resort to it, you should win convincingly. The consensus of the panelists and the audience was that American power has been weak ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 13:55:55 PDT 2007

10558 [lbo-talk] Black or Latino ? -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > There is anti-immigration sentiment in some Black people, but that > it is > decidedly more concentrated than in the white population is > debatable, a > debate which Doug might have some empirical evidence based opinion > figures. Here's one piece of evidence - the exit poll from Prop 187, the 1994 anti-immigrant ballot initiative in California. About 2/3 of whites were for it, and about 1/2 of blacks. No demographic group ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 13:54:02 PDT 2007

10559 [lbo-talk] 4 in 10 Americans have friends or relatives who are gay -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/485/friends-who-are-gay> May 23, 2007 Four-in-Ten Americans Have Close Friends or Relatives Who are Gay Survey finds Familiarity Is Closely Linked to Greater Tolerance by Shawn Neidorf , Research Associate Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and Rich Morin, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center In the past four decades, growing numbers of gays have come out of the closet and into the mainstream of American life. As a consequence, 4-in-10 American ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 12:44:16 PDT 2007

10560 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates on the air -- rank: 1000

Listen to Michael Yates with Tavis Smiley: <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/ tavissmiley/archive/200705/20070522.html>. Nudged his book <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583671439/ leftbusinessobseA> up to 4,378 on Amazon's bestseller list! Doug

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