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9211 [lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > But when have they actually organized sufficient new members to > increase the industrial density of any union? When has any union done that? Aside from SEIU, of course - and the fruitfulness of the density at all costs strategy remains unproved. And what union organizing strategy has Labor Notes actually controlled? TDU was the closest they came, and that wasn't without its virtues, was it? Or is the manliness of Baby Hoffa more impre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 15:10:56 PDT 2008

9212 [lbo-talk] ABC/Post Poll: Bush Defeats Truman -- rank: 1000

Hmmmm, do I hear 35? On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > That's a two-way street. > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Doug Henwood >> >> Aside from Charles's weird repetition compulsion on this, I'm really >> stunned how BHO has made so many otherwise smart and sophisticated >> people say such dumb things. It's a remarkable phenomenon. It's like >> the guy makes people shed 20 or 30 IQ points. >> > _________ ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 14:01:35 PDT 2008

9213 [lbo-talk] leftolaborland scandals! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Just for grins, here's something from a guy fired > by SEIU, so maybe we can't trust him: > > >> Combined with abusing staff forcing some staff >> workers to work 60 and more hours a week with no >> overtime pay under disrespectful conditions, >> ordering staff to disregard many of the >> grievances and problems of workers, and purging >> the progressive staff--all this harms the labor >> m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 14:00:51 PDT 2008

9214 [lbo-talk] hicks shrug off bitterness -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > How many layers of illusion are present in an LA Times article > commenting on unreleased opinion polls reflecting a sample of > voters' preferences after a candidate's misinterpreted remarks > about issues on which there's no empirical evidence to begin with? You're kidding, right? This is American politics!

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 13:49:33 PDT 2008

9215 [lbo-talk] hicks shrug off bitterness -- rank: 1000

<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/upcoming-new- la.html> Upcoming: New L.A. Times/Bloomberg polls for Pennsylvania, N.C. and Indiana Pollsters for the L.A. Times and Bloomberg have been in the field in the three states that will next shape the careening Democratic presidential race, and the results will be welcomed by the recently battered and bruised Barack Obama campaign. We're not quite ready to reveal the numbers; the findings and an analysis of them will be avai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 13:12:25 PDT 2008

9216 [lbo-talk] Steve Early on recent events -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/early04152008.html> SEIU-Backed Hotel Invasion The Purple Punch-Out in Dearborn By STEVE EARLY A rent-a-mob of rowdy, punch-throwing demonstrators burst into Labor Notes' biennial labor conference in Dearborn, Michigan, last Saturday night. When it was over, the local cops had been called in, one demonstrator had collapsed and died and SIEU's chieftain Andy Stern had etched himself another benchmark for intolerance. [...] Just before all of these brave folk ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 12:24:25 PDT 2008

9217 [lbo-talk] advances in economics -- rank: 1000

[maybe this means something to someone but it sounds like a pile of crap to me] NBER Working Paper No. W13896 HANNO N. LUSTIG, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Email: hlustig at econ.ucla.edu STIJN VANNIEUWERBURGH, New York University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Email: svnieuwe at stern.nyu.edu ADRIEN VERDELHAN, Boston University - Department of Economics, Banque de France - Economic Study and Resear ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 12:08:25 PDT 2008

9218 [lbo-talk] leftolaborland scandals! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Doing the math (with CNA at 70,000 members), SEIU now has 231 million > members. See, they represent the whole U.S. working class!

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 11:38:20 PDT 2008

9219 [lbo-talk] Fwd: King Corn on PBS! -- rank: 1000

[I had the director and one of the amateur farmers on the radio last week. This is good stuff.] KING CORN ON PBS! King Corn airs this week on the Emmy-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Broadcasts begin tonight! Check local listings, lean more about the world of corn, get lost in the corn maze, and go behind the scenes on the new PBS website for King Corn. Forward this email to your friends so they know when to watch, too! [PBS website: <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:34:55 PDT 2008

9220 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, at the real LN conference -- rank: 1000

Labor Notes Conference-Goers Push for Labor Solidarity, Rebound from SEIU Disruption --Labor Notes staff More than 1,000 union activists and supporters met at the Labor Notes conference April 11-13 to strategize and debate how to rebuild the power of the labor movement. Media attention has been given to the attempted disruption of the conference by several hundred staffers and members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) some of whom became violent when conference participan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:27:11 PDT 2008

9221 [lbo-talk] Ken Paff on the SEIU @ LN -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Who on this list hasn't disrupted a meeting? The first one I > participated in was Pat Buchannan's He's a fucking crypto-fascist!!!

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:17:41 PDT 2008

9222 [lbo-talk] Doug, Chill. Rachel is not a liar. You have better arguments to make. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > And get called liars by Doug, > who from Manhattan, seems to know a lot more than I do about Ohio. Ah, Manhattan. From here I know that all you people in flyover country are bitter. SEIU's candidate told me so! Look, I don't know what the hell is going on in Ohio. What I know is that Stern and SEIU's political stances on a lot of national issues kinda suck, so I'm inclined not to take their side in disputes with an organization whose s ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:16:33 PDT 2008

9223 [lbo-talk] more on the LN conference -- rank: 1000

A friend who was at the Labor Notes conference, and who now sports a big bruise on his arm from the experience, had this to say (and you can see he was not unsympathetic to SEIU going into the weekend): > All Saturday I was poo-pooing rumors that we would be stormed by > SEIU, having way too many friends in the union not to believe that > there was both a grain of truth to their argument about Ohio and > that this kind of thing was just not what they did. > > It's the spin fr ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:08:14 PDT 2008

9224 [lbo-talk] Ken Paff on the SEIU @ LN -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Does SEIU have any videos of disgruntled CNA/NNOC members like this >> one of disgruntled SEIU nurses? >> >> <http://www.calnurses.org/seiu-watch/>. > > SEIU isn't currently raiding any CNA units. This video was produced as > a part of CNA's effort to steal the CHW St. Rose units in Las Vegas. That wasn't t ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 10:06:05 PDT 2008

9225 [lbo-talk] Why is the US so cheap?, was Re: Comparative Mcdonaldsology -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But regulation does not > explain huge price differences, since prices are not > regulated, I imagine. Not directly but there are restrictions on big box stores, land use, etc. And I think there are restrictions on the kinds of items that stores can sell. The effect is to stifle competition - good for producers and workers but not when workers don their consumer hats.

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 09:55:18 PDT 2008