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		<title>Congress Is Back, Republicans Again Threaten Shutdowns For 1% Agenda</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/19/congress-is-back-republicans-again-threaten-shutdowns-for-1-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/19/congress-is-back-republicans-again-threaten-shutdowns-for-1-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress is back in session and Republicans are right back to shutdown threats. Once again Republicans are trying to use shutdown threats to bust unions (the 99%), once again doing it for pay, for a specific company (the 1%). Funding for the Federal Aviation Administration runs out and the agency is threatened with being shut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recess Appointments: Backlash to Blackmail</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/recess-appointments-backlash-to-blackmail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/recess-appointments-backlash-to-blackmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay roll tax break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pro-forma sessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican obstruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, President Obama finally internalized and implemented the advice of American parents on dealing with bullies. He stood his ground. He called the GOP bluff on the payroll tax. And they backed down. He recess appointed four officials, defying GOP attempts to thwart service to American workers and borrowers. Apparently, it’s a new day in Washington, one in which Democrats, who control the presidency and the majority in the U.S. Senate, are fed up and not going to take GOP bullying and blackmail anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP’s War on Labor Unions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/05/the-gop%e2%80%99s-war-on-labor-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/05/the-gop%e2%80%99s-war-on-labor-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican war on unions continues apace. On a near-party-line vote Wednesday, the House passed a bill crafted to thwart a National Labor Relations Board decision, made earlier Wednesday, that would entitle workers to a timely vote on unionization once they’ve petitioned for it. By ruling that employers’ legal challenges can be entertained only after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Now?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/28/what-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/28/what-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Debt Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Debt Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment rate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK. Thanksgiving&#8217;s behind us, the 91% of the workforce with jobs are back to work, and in DC at least, there&#8217;s a sense of &#8220;what happens next?&#8221; in the air. Here&#8217;s one man&#8217;s answer: Anatomy of a failure: It would be a pleasure to never hear the words &#8220;super&#8221; and &#8220;committee&#8221; in the same sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Out Against Unfair Trade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/22/speaking-out-against-unfair-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/22/speaking-out-against-unfair-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chellie Pingree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Chellie Pingree spoke out on the House floor today in opposition to free trade agreements with Panama, South Korea and Columbia that she says will send good paying American manufacturing jobs overseas. Pingree said over 30,000 Maine manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified. The trade agreements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Supercommittee Fail</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/time-for-supercommittee-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/time-for-supercommittee-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borosage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supercommittee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical GOP shenanigans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I have great respect for each of you individually, but collectively I’m worried you’re going to fail — fail the country,” former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, a co-chairman of President Obama’s fiscal commission, sternly told the congressional supercommittee last week. Elite pressure is building on the committee to reach for a “grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Voting Fails; Alternative Works</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/traditional-voting-fails-alternative-works/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/traditional-voting-fails-alternative-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens for Tax Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debit card fee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koch Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[move your money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporate and clandestine campaign contributions have undermined the power of traditional voting, the kind done at polls on election day. Rather than voters, politicians now serve donors, who invest tens of millions and demand returns in the form of self-serving policy. This is demoralizing to those who cherish democracy and the sanctity of one person, one vote. When the 99 percent forced Bank of America to back off its proposed debit card fee, a ray of hope appeared. Average Americans accomplished this by voting differently, not at the ballot box but at the teller window, the twitter account and the Occupy march. They found another way to exercise their franchise and force the powerful to respond.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Week of Walking Backwards</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Jobs Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McPherson Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a country where joblessness is a painful 9.1 percent. Where one in five children lives in poverty. Where foreclosures rose again last month. Where a whole movement—Occupy Wall Street -- is growing to protest the appeasement of the rich at the cost of the middle class. In that place, Congress chose to walk backwards last week. It didn’t take two steps forward – which it could have by passing the currency manipulation bill and American Jobs Act. No. It just took a giant step backward by embracing three job-killing trade agreements. It all provokes the question: Where are the jobs?]]></description>
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		<title>Call Congress Today and Say ‘NO!’ on Korea, Colombia and Panama Trade Deals</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/04/call-congress-today-and-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-on-korea-colombia-and-panama-trade-deals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/04/call-congress-today-and-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-on-korea-colombia-and-panama-trade-deals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Action Call]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, you can take action to stop Congress from approving job-killing trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama and tell Republicans and Democrats to put Americans back to work. Join the AFL-CIO’s National Call in Day and dial 1-800-718-1008 and tell your lawmakers to stop these dangerous trade deals. You can also send your message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Plotting to Revoke $2 Billion in Consumer Rebates to Boost  Insurer Profits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/republicans-plotting-to-revoke-2-billion-in-consumer-rebates-to-boost-insurer-profits-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/republicans-plotting-to-revoke-2-billion-in-consumer-rebates-to-boost-insurer-profits-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical-loss ratio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Republican candidates for President made it clear in their debate this week that they are happy to let uninsured people die if they have a serious illness, the Republicans in Congress are plotting to make people with insurance pay even more for their coverage to boost insurance company profits. How? By stealing nearly [...]]]></description>
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