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		<title>UAW, GM Reach Tentative Agreement</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/19/uaw-gm-reach-tentative-agreement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/19/uaw-gm-reach-tentative-agreement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UAW reached a tentative agreement with General Motors Co. (GM) late last night. The&#160;union says&#160;the new pact, which covers 48,500 employees, achieved some major goals, including&#160;significant investments and products for GM&#160;plants, creating good new U.S. jobs and bringing back to this country some overseas manufacturing. UAW President Bob King said in a statement: First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Has No Business Using Our Money on Campaign Contributions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/03/gm-has-no-business-using-our-money-on-campaign-contributions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/03/gm-has-no-business-using-our-money-on-campaign-contributions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign Contributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley General Motors has given $90,500 to candidates in the current election cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission. Hmm? Last time I looked, you and I and every other U.S. taxpayer owned a majority of GM. That means some of the money we&#8217;re earning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Guns, Same Old Ammo</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/27/young-guns-same-old-ammo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biff Tannen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Budget Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McFly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Terrance Heath Online Producer, Campaign for America&#8217;s Future In keeping with the Western-themed title of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, allow me to set the scene: It&#8217;s well past high noon, and as the dust settles the economy lies bleeding. Looks like it&#8217;s all over but the dyin&#8217; and the buryin&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corker Tells Whopper: &#8220;I Saved the Auto Industry&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/23/corker-tells-whopper-i-saved-the-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/23/corker-tells-whopper-i-saved-the-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auto industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Corker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Some lies are just tiny fibs, reshading the truth just a little bit, something all of us—except for the purest of heart—have done.  Then there is the whopper, the bald-faced lie that completely blots out the truth. Just like what Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said the other day. Thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Together to Save America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/workers-together-to-save-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/workers-together-to-save-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banksters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teamsters]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  When I grew up back in the 1950&#8242;s, the heart of the U.S. economy was Detroit and when my grandfather retired and moved to Florida in the late 50&#8242;s from Youngstown, Ohio, he and his friends had good pensions and health insurance and could enjoy life at the end.  Back then most Americans were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Traitors vs. Working Class Heroes</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/03/corporate-traitors-vs-working-class-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/03/corporate-traitors-vs-working-class-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO David M. Cote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honeywell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Steel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Honeywell Corp. plant in Metropolis, Ill., workers process “yellow cake” uranium into a highly refined “green salt” for the atomic power industry and nuclear weapons. The United Steelworkers union has been negotiating with Honeywell for months.  Despite an offer by the union to continue working without an agreement, corporate “greed-heads” locked out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits From Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-great-decoupling-of-corporate-profits-from-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-great-decoupling-of-corporate-profits-from-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Second-quarter earnings reports are coming in, and they&#8217;re making Wall Street smile. Corporate profits are up. And big American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of money. The 500 largest non-financial firms held almost a trillion dollars in the second quarter, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Manufacturing Business Expert Richard McCormack</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=2483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Richard McCormack     Q&#38;A       Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you said, “Politicians don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Workers: Hit Hard, Hitting Back</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/08/young-workers-hit-hard-hitting-back/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/08/young-workers-hit-hard-hitting-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[              By Liz Shuler AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer  As newly elected secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, I traveled the country this fall, talking with workers and hearing their concerns. The economic crisis is causing a lot of pain. So many people have no jobs, no health care&#8211;and many are losing their homes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Task Force Outsources Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/15/auto-task-force-outsources-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/15/auto-task-force-outsources-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Bybee Milwaukee Freelance Writer As rescue attempts go, the Obama administration and its Auto Task Force are pursuing a peculiar course: They seem intent on keeping General Motors and Chrysler afloat as corporate entities by tossing more U.S. workers overboard. Even as unemployment rates soar in longtime GM-centered communities hit by shutdowns, such [...]]]></description>
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