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Unions by another name? Lawmakers question rise of 'worker centers'

 

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Former IRS Chief's Wife Works for Leftist Campaign Finance Reform Group

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Doug Shulman [L]

On Friday, reports broke that Former IRS chief Doug Shulman’s wife works with a liberal lobbying group, Public Campaign, where she is the senior program advisor. Public Campaign is an “organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.”

The goal of Public Campaign is to target political groups like the conservative non-profits at issue in the IRS scandal. The Campaign says it “is laying the foundation for reform by working with a broad range of organizations, including local community groups, around the country that are fighting for change and national organizations whose members are not fairly represented under the current campaign finance system.”

CEO of Public Campaign Nick Nyhart has offered words of support for the IRS’ targeting: “There are legitimate questions to be asked about political groups that are hiding behind a 501(c)4 status. It’s unfortunate a few bad apples at the IRS will make it harder for those questions to be asked without claims of bias.”

Public Campaign gets its cash from labor unions like AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, and Move On.

"Depuesto" dirigente partidista dirigirá preparación congreso sindical de Cuba

el jefe del laboratorio neocastrista y postcastrista [ubicado en la provincia artemisa] y sobre el que los medios [des]informativos afirmaron que habia sido depuesto, ha sido nombrado para encabezar la comision preparatoria del xx congreso de la ctc lo que lo coloca siguiendo la tradicion a la cabeza de los sindicatos para los proximos anos.

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Terra España

Ulises Guilarte [2do der-izq]

Ulises Guilarte, separado de su cargo como jefe del Partido Comunista (PCC, único) en una provincia cubana a mediados de mayo, fue designado este sábado al frente de la comisión que prepara el XX Congeso de la Central de Trabajadores (CTC, única), informó la televisión local.

La decisión fue resultado de una reunión del secretariado nacional de la CTC, que también acordó posponer el Congreso de noviembre, como estaba previsto, hasta el primer trimestre de 2014 para una mejor preparación, dijo el reporte.

La reunión fue encabezada por José Ramón Machado, números dos del PCC y vicepresidente del Consejo de Estado, lo que garantiza la aprobación de las decisiones tomadas.

Guilarte fue "liberado" de su cargo de primer secretario del PCC en Artemisa el pasado 15 de mayo y, un breve comunicado oficial dijo entonces que "le serían asignadas nuevas responsabilidades".

Es casi una tradición en Cuba que las personas que dirigen las comisiones preparatorias de los Congresos sean electos jefes de la organización a partir de la reunión.

Convocado en octubre de 2012, el Congreso debe pronunciarse por un nuevo Código Laboral que prepara el Gobierno de Raúl Castro, el cual debe reflejar los resultados de las reformas económicas aplicadas en la isla, sobre todo el incremento de los trabajadores privados y cooperativistas.

O'Reilly: More evidence the far left is out of control in America

Dick Durbin at May Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists?

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On Wednesday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined nearly two thousand trade unionists, open communists, socialists, anarchists and illegal aliens at Chicago's May Day march and rally. 

Two large rally demonstrations that began at Union Park and Chicago's Haymarket Riot monument converged into a giant march that shut down traffic for miles, and ended at Federal Plaza where they were joined by Senator Durbin.

Durbin made remarks to the red, yellow and black flag waving crowd about "immigration reform." Opening with "My fellow immigrants," Durbin told the crowd "this is a once in a lifetime chance" to get "immigration reform."

Following his speech, I spoke to the senator about his participation:

(May Day is apparently also Law Day in America, but after covering the last three May Day marches in Chicago, I have never heard about Law Day, at any of the marches or elsewhere.) 

Durbin then mounted a rather bizarre defense of his participation in the rally--on free speech grounds:

Rebelpundit: There is a large contingent of Communist Party USA, anarchists, international socialist groups here today that you just spoke to...
Durbin: How do you know that?
Rebelpundit: Because I've filmed them all day, and you just spoke to them, so I'd like to ask about your participation, why you decided to come out today?
Durbin: Well let me just say something, because [pause] I believe in the Constitution. Do you believe in it?
Rebelpundit: Because you believe in the Constitution you decided to come out to a rally full of communists and socialists?
Durbin: And you know why?
Rebelpundit: Why?
Durbin: Because we have freedom of speech in America, and that's why you can record this and not be arrested.
RebelPundit: You think I should be arrested?
Durbin: No, not at all, you have a right to your constitutional rights, and I do, too.

Of course, Durbin could go to a Nazi or KKK rally, too--but does that mean, as a United States Senator, he should?

Contenido de trabajo de un Vicepresidente de Cuba: "Atender" a los sindicatos

que en la kubichelandia kaxtrizta se permiten lo que sus santos verocos consideren no constituye sorpresa de ninguna indole, siempre ha sido asi y continuara siendolo; pero declarar a cajas destempladas que la funcion de valdes mesa -puesto a dedo como vicepresidente del consejo de estado desde su cargo anterior tambien designado con el anular kaxtrizta de secretario general de la ctc-, consistira en que  "brindará una atención preferente, «casi exclusiva», a la CTC y a sus sindicatos", como declara  el heroe nacional de intrigas de buroes machado ventura, supera cualquier otra aberracion antes conocida. 

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NeoKaxtrizmo en Accion: Nueva 2da Secretaria de la CTC

Desde Trabajadores

El Consejo Nacional de la CTC acordó liberar como segundo secretario de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba a Ángel Morffi Losada, responsabilidad que desempeñó con disciplina y consagración al trabajo. Fue reconocido por los 23 años en que actuó como dirigente sindical. Al compañero se le asignaran otras tareas.

En el propio pleno se acordó promover a  Carmen Rosa López Rodríguez como segunda secretaria  de la CTC Nacional. De 46 años de edad, posee nivel universitario, una experiencia de más de 20 años como dirigente sindical y político y ha transitado por diferentes niveles de dirección. Es diputada a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular desde el 2003 y milita en las filas del Partido Comunista de Cuba.

La compañera Carmen Rosa se desempeñaba como miembro del Secretariado Nacional de la CTC, con buenos resultados en su trabajo.

Hockey Players give OK to dissolve union

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Don Fehr, executive director of the NHLPA (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

NHL players have moved a step closer to dissolving their union.

A vote of the NHL Players' Association membership this week has given their union's executive board the power to file a "disclaimer of interest" until Jan. 2. A source confirmed the vote produced more than the two-thirds of membership support needed.

A union spokesman declined to comment on the "internal PA matter."

If the NHLPA's executive board elects to go ahead and file the disclaimer, the union will be dissolved and transformed into a trade association. That would allow players to file anti-trust lawsuits against the NHL.

The legality of the lockout is already set to be tried in a federal U.S. court after the NHL filed a class-action lawsuit last week against the NHLPA, which claimed the union was only using the threat of a "disclaimer of interest" as a bargaining tactic. The NHL also submitted an unfair labour practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.

Negotiations between the league and union have been at a standstill since talks went off the rails on Dec. 6.

The NHLPA now appears set to follow the lead set by NFL and NBA players, who both dissolved their unions during lockouts last year. The NBA's labour dispute ended less than two weeks after the union was disbanded.

Jeffrey Kessler, the lead negotiator for the National Basketball Players Association in that dispute, believes the NHLPA would be wise to go ahead with the "disclaimer of interest."

"I think this is much more likely to lead to a settlement sooner," Kessler told The Canadian Press on Dec. 14. "The players have concluded that they are on the verge of possibly deciding that it is better not to be a union and using the anti-trust laws to attack the lockout, which all fans should be happy with because it'll work.

"I assume the fans would like the lockout to end."

The NHL doesn't share that view.

The league's Board of Governors discussed the possibility of a "disclaimer of interest" on Dec. 5 and commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters afterwards that the NHL didn't see it as a significant threat.

"The board was completely and thoroughly briefed on the subject," said Bettman. "And we don't view it in the same way in terms of its impact as apparently the union may."

Time is running short to save the NHL season. All games through Jan. 14 have been cancelled and a new deal would need to be in place by about that time to salvage a 48-game schedule, the minimum Bettman says needs to be played.

There are currently no talks scheduled between the sides.

Cuba: Sindicatos y Control Politico

el granma informa sobre los preparativos del xx congreso de la ctc, una mega organizacion parasita que aglutina y controla a los sindicatos del pais bajo una sola directriz, en tanto "correa" de transmision vertical y unilateral de las ordenanzas de su santidad el castrato en jefe.

de ahi sabemos que de los 1,200 delegados un 60% de los mismos seran dirigentes de bases de la cetece y los sindicatos, trabajadores estatales y no estatales [cuentapropistas] y jubilados. 

es decir, no basta con que estos 720 participantes sean cuidadosamente seleccionados y convenientemente adiestrados en lo que deben aplaudir y en lo que callar, sino que los 480 restantes son designados a dedo entre la arribista, pancista y genuflexa casta sindicalera.

segun salvador valdes, el designado secretario general de la cetece que debe pasar a mejor vida en este congreso, los objetivos esenciales del evento convocado se corresponden con la razon de ser del latigo, mas que correa, que encabeza:    

• apoyar y ratificar la decisión irrenunciable de la construcción del socialismo, preservar y consolidar las conquistas de la Revolución, 
• fortalecer la unidad del movimiento sindical, 
• movilizar a los trabajadores hacia el cumplimiento de los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social, 
• elevando su papel y participación en la proyección y ejecución de los planes de la economía y los presupuestos, en la eficiencia económica, el incremento de la productividad, la producción y la calidad de los servicios, 
• así como su protagonismo en la representación y defensa de los derechos de los trabajadores.

Will Obama help unions?

By Nelson Lichtenstein, Special to CNN

Editor's note: Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation chair in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is co-editor of "The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination."

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(CNN) -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's stunning decision to sign a right-to-work law poses the question: Are these anti-union statutes, which make illegal any union contract that requires union membership or payment of dues a condition of employment, the future? During the last two years Indiana and Wisconsin have also passed laws that curb union strength and slash dues income.

"If Michigan can do it, then I think everybody ought to think about it," asserts Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Mix listed Alaska, Missouri, Montana and Pennsylvania, where Republicans enjoy large majorities in state legislatures, among the top contenders.

The potential spread of right-to-work laws in the North, even in states where voters heavily favored President Obama for a second term, is a startling and ominous development.

For decades, right-to-work laws were confined to the South or Mountain West, heavily agricultural states where new unions born during the Depression era evoked, among many employers and conservative politicians, the specter of Communism, race-mixing or both. These laws were almost all enacted in the years after the 1947 Congressional passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, which gave states the right to make illegal any collective bargaining contract that mandated union membership as a condition of employment.

Opponents of unionism hailed these laws as insuring a "right-to-work" because they encouraged workers to take a job, even one where the wages and working conditions had been negotiated by a union, without paying the dues necessary to sustain the labor organization. To note that employers encouraged such free-loading would be an understatement. Then and now they denounced "compulsory unionism" and the "labor bosses" who sought to live high on the hog on member dues. In this imagining, it was the union, not the employer, who oppressed the workers.

Opinion: A victory for right-to-work laws

In 1958, right-to-work advocates thought the time was ripe to invade the North. A sharp recession in the late 1950s had sapped union strength at the same moment that the Senate's McClellan Labor Rackets Committee investigation had uncovered unsavory links between Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, and organized crime. Urged on by conservative Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater and financed by a newly created National Right to Work Committee, these anti-union activists put right to work referenda on the ballots of California, Ohio, Washington, Kansas, Idaho and Colorado.

But with the exception of Kansas, all these initiatives went down in overwhelming defeat. That was not only because labor was still a powerful force -- in Ohio union density, the proportion of all workers in a union, stood at nearly 40% -- but also because the Democrats linked their fortunes to the labor movement and to the fight against right to work. As Pat Brown, the California gubernatorial candidate put it, right to work represented "a return to the ugly and destructive law of the economic jungle."

The battle for the votes of African-Americans constituted one of the most remarkable features of these referenda. Right-to-work advocates pointed out, often quite accurately, that many American trade unions failed to adequately represent their minority members. If unions were weaker, minority workers might well get better jobs and promotions. But in Ohio and California especially that argument failed to persuade.

The NAACP distributed a pamphlet entitled "Keep Mississippi Out of California," but even without this kind of propaganda most African-Americans and Latinos knew that an imperfect union was a better friend that a non-union employer whose power and prejudices ruled the workplace unchecked by any countervailing institution.

Today, right-to-work forces are once again making a push to eviscerate unionism in its heartland. Thanks to Citizens United they have unlimited money. Thanks to globalization, slow growth, and corporate attacks, trade unionism is far weaker than in 1958.

In Ohio union density stands at 13.4%, in Pennsylvania 14.6%, in Michigan, birth state of the once powerful United Automobile Workers, just 17.5%, a disastrous drop since the industrial union heyday in the 1950s.

To staunch this anti-union assault, the Democrats have to make the defense of union rights and power a central, organic component of their message to American voters, office holders and workers -- both white collar and blue. Although Democratic legislators in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio have bravely fought the Republican right on this issue, President Obama has been notably missing from the action.

Obama denounced "right to work for less" in a post-election speech at a factory outside Detroit, but he was almost entirely silent on the issue both during the demonstrations that convulsed Madison, Wisconsin, in the winter of 2011, during the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the spring of the next year, and throughout the presidential campaign itself.

Obama and his advisers undoubtedly thought that if they wanted to win right-to-work states like Virginia and Florida, they better keep quite about union rights in the North. But this was and is an exceedingly shortsighted and self defeating calculation.

Trade unions stand at the core of the Democratic coalition. They are the last organizations remaining on the liberal side that can effectively appeal to white, working-class men in the Rust Belt swing states. Without the union organization and mobilization of blue collar Latinos in California, Nevada, and New Mexico those states would be almost as red as Texas.

When Obama declared his support for gay marriage, he helped consolidate a growing national consensus in favor of that right. The president and other national Democrats need to use the same bully pulpit to defend trade unionism in its hour of need, not only because their destruction threatens the living standards of our working middle class, but because these institutions are the living embodiment of democracy, interracial solidarity and personal dignity in the world of work.

Major U.S. Union Denies Alleged Discussion of “Cuban 5”

by Chris Simmons

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spokeswoman Jenice Robinson today denied Cuba’s claim that the union studied the case of the “Cuban 5” at its International Convention in late May.  Using the headline “Important Workers’ Union in US Discusses Cuban 5 Cases, the Cuban news service Prensa Latina (PRELA) claimed “…the cases of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters was analyzed in Denver…during the Convention of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).”    Robinson asked Cuba Confidential, “Analyzed by whom?”  She also noted that the Cuban 5 was never “part of SEIU’s agenda” nor was it “part of SEIU's convention resolutions.”

See complete PRELA article here:  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=513233&Itemid=1

Declaracion de la Confederacion de Trabajadores Democraticos de Cuba

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Sindrome del Neokaxtrizmo: Cuentapropistas desfilaran el 1ro de Mayo en la Plaza

Lo que veniamos esperando se concreta con el anuncio del Granma que los trabajadores por cuenta propia que han sido compulsados a afiliarse a los sindicatos oficialistas del regimen, ahora formaran parte de la Masiva, entusiasta y organizada movilización popular  que desfilara bajo las botas de la mafia biranesa en las Plazas de la Robo-ilusion el 1ro de Mayo en todo el pais.

Nadie le quitara la licencia al que no asista, pero el mecanismo es mas sutil y aterrador: SERA MARCADO!

Sindrome del NeoKaxtrizmo: +300 mil cuentrapropistas sindicalizados

El kubishe, sea apparatchik del partido, de la intelligentsia, de la ramplona chivateria de barrio, de la in-mungracion de Jayalia o ahora en la variante actualizada de cuentapropista, disfruta de la turba, se regodea en ella, la vacila, tiene convulsiones orgasmicas. Es genetico, necesita la talanquera, el latigo, aunque la yuca se la tenga que luchar el mismo. No importa, el 87% se apuntan en el sindicato. 

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Sindrome del NeoKaxtrizmo: Cuentapropista pero ... revolucionario y sindicalizado

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Cerca del 80 % de la masa de trabajadores no estatales del país se ha incorporado de manera gradual al movimiento sindical, cifra que refleja la disposición de la mayoría de estos a organizarse y ser representados por los sectores afines a las especialidades y oficios que desempeñan.

Al ofrecer la información, Salvador Valdés Mesa, secretario general de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, se refirió a la positiva labor realizada durante el año pasado por las estructuras de la organización a todos los niveles, para integrar a quienes optaron por esta modalidad de empleo.
Los sectores que concentran hoy el mayor número de trabajadores no estatales sindicalizados son el de Comercio y Gastronomía (más de 100 000) y el de Transporte (alrededor de 60 000), quienes se agrupan para su atención a través de delegados, comités o secciones sindicales.
"Representamos en igualdad de condiciones a todos los trabajadores del país, estatales o no estatales, con la misión de organizarlos, ayudar a su adiestramiento y formación laboral, y elevar su cultura política y económica", enfatizó el también miembro del Buró Político.
"Lo más importante para un trabajador no estatal, aseguró Valdés Mesa, es ser disciplinado y competente, cumplir con los impuestos y demás obligaciones fiscales, y observar estrictamente las normas establecidas para cada tipo de actividad productiva o comercial".
Según fuentes del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, hasta diciembre último más de

357 000 cubanos ejercían el trabajo por cuenta propia como ocupación laboral, tendencia al crecimiento que debe mantenerse durante todo el 2012.

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De acuerdo con la AFP, y como nos tiene acostumbrado el "raulismo" que "cualquiera" nada una noticia relevante, la CTC convocó por primera vez en medio siglo a los empleados privados a afiliarse a sus sindicatos, que hasta ahora están formados sólo por la fuerza laboral del Estado, informó el martes un dirigente de esa organización.

El secretario general de la CTC en la provincia de Camagüey (este), Oscar Rivero, explicó que los dirigentes sindicales están entrevistando a los llamados "trabajadores por cuenta propia" para expresarles la "disposición de afiliarlos al movimiento sindical".

"Tenemos el reto antes de llegar al 1 de Mayo y está relacionado con lograr entrevistar a todos los trabajadores que hoy se han incorporado al trabajo no estatal", afirmó el dirigente sindical.

Rivero precisó que la CTC, única, pues en Cuba no se permiten sindicatos independientes, está llamando a los empleados del sector privado a los desfiles del 1 de Mayo en todo el país, para "ratificar la disposición de defender la revolución y el socialismo".

"Y continuar la batalla por la actualización del modelo económico cubano. Ellos son parte también de esta batalla, por lo tanto también tendrán su espacio" en las marchas, agregó.