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9196 [lbo-talk] Obama gains on "electability" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > r~ obama eh?

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9197 [lbo-talk] a straw to clutch at! -- rank: 1000

[from the Fed's new beige book, their anecdotal roundup of economic conditions around the US] "Housing markets and home construction remained sluggish throughout most of the nation, though there were few signs of any quickening in the pace of deterioration."

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 11:14:15 PDT 2008

9198 [lbo-talk] craft unions -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > So all the years of organizing in OH -- thus far -- was not to build > committee in each CHP hospital in the state, with the idea that > developing worker leadership in each unit would allow the union to > build strong majorities to weather a boss campaign in an NLRB > election. Sure SEIU had many CHP workers in motion, but as part of > SEIU's "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) campaign, whose goal it > was t ...

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9199 [lbo-talk] craft unions -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Comrade! Didn't you get the memo from the leadership? According to the > "International Committee of the Fourth International" -- I have no > idea what flavor of Trot this is, nor do I care to know -- workers > shouldn't take sides in a "sordid battle over dues income": > > http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/seiu-a15.shtml The full sentence: "While workers should take no side in the sordid bat ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 11:09:38 PDT 2008

9200 [lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Joseph Catron writes: > >> What prevents the UAW from organizing 93,100 new automotive repairs >> and maintenance workers? Or 51,100 new motor vehicle dealership >> workers? (Not to mention 229,000 and 169,300 current ones, >> respectively.) Why can't CWA and OPEIU team up to organize hundreds >> of thousands of finance-sector workers? When will the old plant >> unions notice that pharmaceutical a ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:59:49 PDT 2008

9201 [lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> When has any union done that? Aside from SEIU, of course > > Doug, I hope you realize you're making my points for me, and more > vehemently than I would. Howzzat? You split the sentence in the middle: >> and the >> fruitfulness of the density at all costs strategy remains unproved. > > As opposed to what? The d ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:52:29 PDT 2008

9202 [lbo-talk] class snobbery -- rank: 1000

I asked Chuck Idelson, CNA's communications director, to comment on the SEIU criticism that they're snobby about appealing to nurses' professional status, to differentiate them from mere orderlies. Here's his response. Doug > It's a specious and self serving argument by SEIU. We in fact > appeal to > nurses as a professional association and as a union. We strongly > work to > protect and improve, obviously, their professional practice (more > on that in > a minute), but a ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 08:02:31 PDT 2008

9203 [lbo-talk] Another union buster to be "vigorously picketed" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On 4/16/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Juan Gonzalez is not >> some Labor Notes weenie, either. > > No, he's some WBAI weenie. Ha, yeah. But also a former Young Lord!

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 07:58:18 PDT 2008

9204 [lbo-talk] Spitzer in Tehran -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 16, 2008 Chief of Police for Tehran Was Arrested, Iran Confirms By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN Tehran's police chief, who was responsible for a crackdown on immodestly dressed women for the past year, has been arrested, a spokesman for the judiciary confirmed Tuesday. At a news conference, the spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, would not give the reason for the arrest, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported. Web sites and local newspapers reported last month that the chief, Ge ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 06:42:47 PDT 2008

9205 [lbo-talk] Another union buster to be "vigorously picketed" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ > 2008/02/29/2008-02-29_new_york_labor_leader_dennis_rivera_in_s.html > > And if he has a 68-year-old woman blocking our way, we'll bust her > head open, too! Wow. An amazing story. I'm going to post the whole thing because a lot of people might not have followed that link. Juan Gonzalez is not some Labor Notes weenie, either. Doug ---- New York Daily News - March 4, 2008 <http://www.nydai ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 05:59:54 PDT 2008

9206 [lbo-talk] craft unions -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:19 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > I do not see what is wrong with the CNA organizing nurses or what > is necessarily good > about SEIU organizing nurses in the first place. Indeed. And something I don't get about the Ohio affair... Steve Early says CHP cancelled the election that it essentially called. Steven Greenhouse, in his writeup of the Dustup in Dearborn in today's NYT, says that SEIU cancelled it. Which is it? And in any case, if SEIU's roots in Ohio were s ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 05:42:07 PDT 2008

9207 [lbo-talk] Tavis Smiley runs from crazed Obamaites -- rank: 1000

<http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=586&Itemid=1> Tavis Smiley Seeks Relief from Crazed Obamites by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Tavis Smiley never wanted to pick a fight with Barack Obama. In point of fact, it is not in the media entrepreneur s nature to pick fights with persons of power or popularity. But Obama s zealots do not accept anything less than abject, unqualified loyalty to their leader, whom they treat more as a messia ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 05:29:12 PDT 2008

9208 [lbo-talk] McCain reads lbo-talk? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: >> I say the best way to do it is to up the standards. > > Okay, so that's the nub: you're empirically wrong. Based on the > evidence > of past practice, that isn't the most effective way. Higher prices > is. I say it's both. Just like it's not transportation vs. power, or temperate grasslands vs. tropical forests. If we're going to keep ourselves from baking and/or drowning, every CO2 molecule must be squeezed!

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 05:24:05 PDT 2008

9209 [lbo-talk] Obama gains on "electability" -- rank: 1000

[the "bitterness" thing has had no visible effect in the polls] Obama Surges on Electability, Challenges Clinton on Leadership Barack Obama has knocked down one of the three tent poles of Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, surging ahead of her as the candidate Democrats see as most likely to win in November. He's challenging her on leadership as well, leaving only experience as a clear Clinton advantage in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. On the eve of their debate ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 04:39:25 PDT 2008

9210 [lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Intead, the crisis of the labour movement is essentially a by- > product of > globalization and the opening of new markets, which have given > Western-based > multinationals easier access to a worldwide pool of cheap labour. Nurses? Orderlies? Janitors? Restaurant workers? Cashiers? Doug

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