Teachers stage walk-ins around the Valley

I Am A Man: Dr. King & the Memphis Sanitation Strike

France: rail unions disrupt travel with mass strikes for second day

Union Maid

The End of Public Sector Unions?

Americans Trail World in Paid Time Off as 40% Don’t Get Money - SFGate

Americans Trail World in Paid Time Off as 40% Don’t Get Money - SFGate:

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The report underscores how the U.S. is lagging on such policies. It’s the only advanced economy without a national leave policy guaranteeing a break for employees, said John Schmitt, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. Austria guarantees as many as 43 paid days off, and a young German worker can take as many as 40.

“Of the 15 most economically developed countries, 14 have sick and vacation time off,” Schmitt said in a telephone interview. “We’re the outlier.”

The report shows that employees in some industries fare better than others. The 8.1 million Americans working in the financial industry in 2011 were twice as likely as the nation’s 8.7 million construction workers to have paid time off, according to the bureau’s American Time Use Survey, which attempts to track how much time U.S. residents devote to activities ranging from job-searching to dog-walking.

The lowest rates were in the leisure and hospitality sector, where fewer than one in four workers reported receiving paid vacation or sick days.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Americans-Trail-World-in-Paid-Time-Off-as-40-3796292.php#ixzz245r7gTxA
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note:  when you get rid of unions what do you expect

jennifer granholm teachers endorse Obama

Senate Bill 5 Ohio antilabor law passes

see what happens when teabaggers win big. watch simular in other states and soon

Congressman Ryan Stands Up Against SB-5 on the House Floor

Election 2010 GOP has more bad news

Republicans are going to have problems. 4 senators have announced they will not run for reelection.

Christopher "Kit" Bond (Mo.)
Sam Brownback (Kan.)
Mel Martinez (Fla.)
George Voinovich (Ohio)

Now is the time for Democratic Party to do some work. It is also time for "progressive" canidates to start preps. Senate races are noted for consuming a lot of resources and cash.

Right now, too many doing too much celebration activities. Dems still could blow it if the public does not see some results. Many democrats had high hopes after 2006 elections and were let down by inaction in congress.