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9181 [lbo-talk] SEIU: Responsible For The Holocaust, Too -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > LBO- where the left outdoes itself with the crazy, every month crazier > than the one before. You know that letter was written by black leaders within SEIU, right? Are they part of the "crazy" left too?

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Date:	Sat Apr 19 10:49:27 PDT 2008

9182 [lbo-talk] SEIU black leaders protest LN action -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> He was told he was going to a rally, and found that he was cannon- >> fodder at a riot. > > First of all, what is the source for your claim that SEIU told him he > was going to a "rally"? The letter from the SEIU black leaders I posted yesterday. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 19 06:02:06 PDT 2008

9183 [lbo-talk] SEIU black leaders protest LN action -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Seriously. People die every day, in any number of innocuous > circumstances. This guy happened to die at a union demonstration. So > what? I remember cutting the numbers several years ago, during my > militant street medic days, and being surprised that none of the > elderly participants in anti-war demonstrations I attended ever died > at one. But eventually, someone will. Deal with it. He was told he was going to a ra ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 19 05:10:23 PDT 2008

9184 [lbo-talk] SEIU black leaders protest LN action -- rank: 1000

[a copy just sent to me - this was OCR'd from a scan, so apologies for any errors I didn't catch] April 17, 2008 Marchel Smiley, President SEIU National AFRAM Caucus 1673 Columbia Road NM # 100 Washington, DC 20009 RE: SEIU Exploits African American Women and Children at Labor Notes Conference Dear President Smiley: In Dearborn, Michigan on Saturday, April 12, 2008, SEIU staffers invited African American SEIU members, mostly women and children to a "rally." However, it was not a ra ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 13:58:37 PDT 2008

9185 [lbo-talk] London congestion charge, follow-up -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:50 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > 'C-charge has not cut jams, admits TfL chief' in today's Evening > Standard Of course there's no counterfactual - what would have happened without the congestion charge?

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 11:28:38 PDT 2008

9186 [lbo-talk] CNA responds to Mark Rickling -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > the left-led 1199 It hasn't been that in ages. Dennis was bosom buddies with George Pataki! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 18 07:21:25 PDT 2008

9187 [lbo-talk] SEIU sells out again! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> So why'd the union and/or its employer pals cancel the election? >> Isn't that us or no one too? > > Because we knew we'd lose. With the employer on your side and a straight yes or no choice, you knew you'd lose? Really, a couple of weeks of CNA "unionbusting" did this? That's just not believable. Either what CNA ha ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 05:44:53 PDT 2008

9188 [lbo-talk] CNA responds to Mark Rickling -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > It's sad and not just a little bit pathetic that I have to keep > repeating this basic point here -- unions shouldn't waste their > valuable resources raiding each other and unionbusting other unions' > organizing drives. No they shouldn't, though "unionbusting" is a tendentious way to put it. It's sad to see that kind of competition. Had SEIU not pulled out of the AFL-CIO in what now looks like a deeply meaningless act ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 05:42:39 PDT 2008

9189 [lbo-talk] CNA responds to Mark Rickling -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > In areas with density, one can drive standards. This is basic unionism > 101. CA has a bunch of density, so does NY. This effect is not visible in average wage levels. To pick two lines of work where SEIU is active in the New York metro area: median hourly wage (BLS, 2006) level ratio to all ------------- --------------- US NY US NY nurses $27.54 $34.75 188.5% 185.1% janitors 9.58 11.89 65.6 ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 05:40:50 PDT 2008

9190 [lbo-talk] commonalities -- rank: 1000

<http://www.examiner.com/blogs-73-Yeas_and_Nays~y2008m4d18-By-the- numbers?cid=email-blog> By the numbers POSTED APRIL 18, 12:29 AM 86: The number of Senate bills that John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have co-sponsored together since 2005. [source: Harper's]

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 05:24:41 PDT 2008

9191 [lbo-talk] CNA responds to Mark Rickling -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded Mark Rickling's recent comments to the CNA press person, Chuck Idelson, who responds...] some responses: 1- on the ratio law. in California, in 1999 in the final days of the legislative session, SEIU lobbyists went into legislative offices with Kaiser to lobby legislators to vote against the bill, they wanted them to vote it down. after the law was passed, in hearings by the state health department they tried to water the intent of the law by having LVNs included in the count. ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 14:40:15 PDT 2008

9192 [lbo-talk] SEIU sells out again! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Really, the CNA's conservative craft union position -- our > "association" or no union at all! -- is an incredibly stupid and > counterproductive one. So why'd the union and/or its employer pals cancel the election? Isn't that us or no one too? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 09:09:41 PDT 2008

9193 [lbo-talk] craft unions -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> If this Ohio thing shows anything, it's that high- >> altitude scheming can evaporate in an instant without that rank-and- >> file support. > > That's pretty obvious, but I'm not sure what your point is. That the SEIU strategy is empty. It's odd you can concede half the point. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 08:29:40 PDT 2008

9194 [lbo-talk] craft unions -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > The point of the campaign prior to the vote > was not to build an organization that could withstand the unionbusting > "vote no" campaign that the CNA ran I just don't get this at all. As you point out later in your post, a typical unionbusting campaign is run by an employer, aided by consultants, using sophisticated techniques of psychological warfare, backed up with naked economic power. CNA landed in Ohio shortly befo ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 14:19:41 PDT 2008

9195 [lbo-talk] irony-challenged purveyor of working-class bombast endorses elitist -- rank: 1000

<http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bruce-springsteen- endorse-barack-obama.php> MEMO FROM THE BOSS: OBAMA WAS BORN TO RUN! Bruce Springsteen is endorsing Obama, effectively throwing into Barack's camp aging rockers, enemies of Dead Kennedys, fans of denim and bandannas, grunters and screamers, Camaro dealers and drivers, New Jersey, and, of course, the always obedient E Street Band. "He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years," Spr ...

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