World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-9

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Middle-class worker loyalty to employers on decline

The harsh economic climate has frayed relationships between middle-class workers and their employers. An already-strained sense of loyalty has been further damaged by stagnant wages, rapid-fire mass layoffs and persistent fears of job loss.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/06/19/20110619middle-class-employer-loyalty-decline.html



Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation

Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
http://bit.ly/mORZU9


From Information Clearing House

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Mourning in America

The Weekly Standard
by Matthew Continetti

Trying to stay upbeat? Avoid the business section. Unemployment stands at 9.1 percent. Growth is narcoleptic. The housing market has not hit bottom. Fears of a Greek default are roiling markets. The deficit is running more than a trillion dollars for the third year in a row and won t be shrinking anytime soon. A U.S. fiscal crisis may be only a few years (or months) away. President Obama, meanwhile, seems to think our problems would be solved if only we banned ATMs and built solar-powered bullet trains... (for publication 06/27/11)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mourning-america_574845.html



Whirling economics

Boston Globe
by John E. Sununu

06/20/11

Panic is not a pretty thing. The Obama administration may not be there just yet, but a steady drumbeat of bad economic news pushes it closer every week. In Ohio the president talked about giving money to automakers, in North Carolina he talked about giving money to 'green' companies, and recently he proposed yet another payroll tax holiday. Call it the 'whirling dervish' approach to economic policy ? frantically spinning from one constituency to another, dispensing subsidies, and hoping something works...

http://tinyurl.com/3srkq2k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Learning From 'Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks'

Adam Kader, Working In These Times: 'The decline of unions does not mean the end of the labor movement. Indeed, the last few years have seen a proliferation of new kinds of worker organizations and workers' rights campaigns. Some of the most exciting of late have been conducted by community-based groups (rather than workplace-based unions), such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and those part of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks, a recent pamphlet published by PM Press, Daniel Gross and Staughton Lynd highlight an increasingly important feature of todays labor movement - nonunion workers using direct action strategies protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - while examining the Industrial Workers of the Worlds (IWW)s ongoing efforts to organize Starbucks.'

http://www.truth-out.org/organizing-wobbly-ground-learning-solidarity-unionism-starbucks/1308684065



Source of Missing Jobs in America Found: Forced Laborers

Maryam Al-Zoubi, Campaign for Americas Future: 'With unemployment at a near historic high in the United States, could you imagine any American company bringing in foreign workers to work for them below the minimum wage and with no benefits? Most people would say no. But can you imagine those same Americans forcing foreign workers to stay here, with no pay, and constant abuse? That is actually happening in this country today. Forced labor is a real phenomenon in the United States agriculture business. Without awareness and investigation into where our supplies come from and who businesses are hiring, the American people become unwitting complicit supporters of labor trafficking. Monday June 13th, in anticipation of the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) held a Senate committee hearing and panel discussion to review the success and needed improvements of the law.'

http://www.truth-out.org/source-missing-jobs-america-found-forced-laborers/1308681133

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Modern Day Enslavement
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/modern-day-enslavement.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greek
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fiscal+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=labor+movement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=workers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=layoff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=minimum+wage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=enslavement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Macaray
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Continetti
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+E.+Sununu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Weinstein
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Kader
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maryam+Al-Zoubi
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