{"id":18277,"date":"2015-12-15T08:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18277"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:28:37","slug":"terse-tuesday-tidbits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tuesday Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday (hey, at least it's not OGIM).  JL will be away from her computer for a while, and asked me to stand in for her (replace her, I couldn't possibly, but stand in – maybe.)  She sent me a starter and I have compiled a few related posts and sites.<\/p>\n

Headline:  Wal-Mart's reliance on Chinese imports has cost over 400,000 U.S. Jobs.  So says a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.<\/a>          \"walmart\"<\/a>    <\/p>\n

Headline:  China:  police crackdown on labour rights activists<\/a>.  Apparently even those 400,000 jobs aren't what they are cracked up to be.  The IUF unites food, farm and hotel workers world wide. <\/p>\n

Headline:  Farm Worker Ministry Northwest Attends UFW's Darigold rally<\/a>.  This was a few months ago, but if I am not mistaken, it was over two YEARS ago that Randy drowned in a pool of Darigold manure, and Darigold has still not even started to look at improving worker safety – plus there are other issues.<\/p>\n

And in Iran:  Detained teacher unionist on hunger strike<\/a>.  He is in fact one of six from his union council who are detained just for being union officials.<\/p>\n

There are of course groups working to help working people at least survive, and hopefully, succeed.  This is a very NON-exhaustive list.  Feel free to add groups in comments\"china\"<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Working Families<\/a><\/p>\n

Labor Rights<\/a><\/p>\n

Jobs With Justice<\/a><\/p>\n

American Association of University Women<\/a>  (srsly)<\/p>\n

Labour Start<\/a>  (international, helps unions run campaigns)<\/p>\n

It is just as true now as it was when Joe Hill was alive – capital does not give up anything without a struggle.  If you are working, and there is a union in your industry, and you don't belong, for heaven's sake JOIN already.<\/p>\n

And if not, do what you can (and I realize that may be very little) to help unions and to help unionized workers.  We still need to hang together in order not to all hang separately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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