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the Northern Worker: In Wisconsin, A Test Case for Right to Work
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Friday, May 22, 2015. In Wisconsin, A Test Case for Right to Work. Three years after losing. Over the right to collect dues, about 200 union members at Manitowoc Cranes in northeast Wisconsin face continuing efforts to decimate their treasury—an experience other unions may soon also face under the state’s new so-called “right to work” law. The collective bargaining agreement includes an annual period during which workers can opt out of the union. As that period approaches, management exhorts workers ...
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the Northern Worker: TPPA: Capitalism at its Predatory Best
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. TPPA: Capitalism at its Predatory Best. President Obama was granted “Fast Track” authority by Congress on June 24, thus clearing the way to rapid passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). CIO, provisions for a government-funded program for some of the thousands of U.S. workers expected to lose their jobs as U.S. corporations offshore production to low-wage and virtual slave-labor nations like Vietnam and China. The Republicans, joined by their “progressive&#...
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the Northern Worker: Gentrification & Inequality in Duluth
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Monday, June 8, 2015. Gentrification and Inequality in Duluth. As a child, I loved trips to Woolworth's with my mother and great-grandmother. They shopped while I coveted the soft pretzels. Little did I know that these were the last of downtown's good old days. As years passed, business after business closed its doors, leaving sad relics of storefronts. Continued its careen into economic depression, of which our shuttered downtown was a visceral symbol. Not necessarily. Neighborhoods and cities chang...
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the Northern Worker: Workers Rally in Defense of Duluth Mail Processing Center
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Friday, May 29, 2015. Workers Rally in Defense of Duluth Mail Processing Center. Fifty people gathered in front of the post office on. In a rally to save the. What do we want? A man with a megaphone asked the crowd Wednesday. The crowd shouted, "Permanently restored services! When do we want it? As well as the. And other parts of northern. S mail processing center has been slated to close as part of the Postal Service's consolidation plan to save money. Will be substandard compared to the Twin Cities.
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the Northern Worker: $15 Wage Movement Makes Gains
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. 15 Wage Movement Makes Gains. June was a good month for the fight for a $15 minimum wage. On June 13,. The second largest city in the country, saw the mayor sign the bill passed by the city council that raised the minimum wage from $9 to $15 over the next five years. This will keep the city ahead of the statewide minimum wage, which was raised to $10 in 2016. The California State Assembly is now considering raising it to $13 in 2017. Last November, the people of. Attorney General ...
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the Northern Worker: May Day in Superior: No Cuts to the UW!
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Sunday, May 3, 2015. May Day in Superior: No Cuts to the UW! This year to mark International Workers Day, workers and activists held a rally in. The theme of this year's May Day protest was opposition to the proposes $300 million cuts to the. About three dozen people attended the event at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The first part of the event was a powerful rally with the following speakers: Michael Raino, Kym Young, Scott Wallace, Meghan Krausch and Joel Sipress. Email us at adamritscher@gmai...
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the Northern Worker: Why Obama’s epic climate plan isn’t such a big deal
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Why Obama’s epic climate plan isn’t such a big deal. The carbon regulations that President Barack Obama is unveiling today sound like they’ll be a bit stronger than the toothless draft rules he unveiled last year. That doesn’t mean they’ll be strong. And it certainly doesn’t mean they’ll be “the strongest action ever taken to combat climate change,” as The New York Times breathlessly referred to them in its news pages yesterday morning. 154 percent from 2005 levels —. Which poure...
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the Northern Worker: What Socialists Advocate
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Saturday, February 1, 2014. Below is a list of stances that Socialist Action takes on a wide variety of social, economic and political questions. We also encourage you to check out our ". Workers Action Program to Confront the Economic Crisis. For our views on how to turn around the U.S. economy. Bring all troops home now from overseas. Close all military bases. Cut all aid and political ties to Apartheid. No blood for oil. Free universal health care. Drop the insurance companies and establish a sing...
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the Northern Worker: Minnesota CEOs Paid 305 Times More Than Average Worker
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Minnesota CEOs Paid 305 Times More Than Average Worker. Five hundred Minnesota CEOs made an average of $13.9 million in 2014 – 305 times more than the average worker, according to the. CIO’s annual Executive PayWatch report. The highest paid was Target CEO Brian Cornell, who made $28.2 million in 2014, 779 times the average worker’s pay. A new employee would have to work for 1036 hours just to equal the pay McMillon earns in one hour. PayWatch also highlights the wealth of the...
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the Northern Worker: Screwed by vulture funds, Puerto Rico is the US's 'Greece'
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Screwed by vulture funds, Puerto Rico is the US's 'Greece'. The world has been focused on the spectacle of the “Troika” of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and the European Central Bank crushing the Greek people, but it is far from the only example of strong nations using a “debt crisis” to extract more wealth from those that are weaker. A case in point is the. In a June 28. Times interview, the governor of the. Which remains a territory of the. Spoke to protester D...
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