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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Michigan</title>
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		<title>Rhee&#8217;s Students First Collaborated on Mich. Bill Limiting Collective Bargaining for Teachers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/26/9676/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education blogger At the Chalk Face has obtained an internal briefing document from Michelle Rhee’s Students First and makes clear just how extensively Students First collaborated with Michigan Republicans on four education bills targeting teachers, including one limiting collective bargaining. The 30-page PDF is available here. The crucial take-away is that although Rhee has claimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recall Kickoff Video</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/12/recall-kickoff-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kickoff of the Recall Rick Snyder effort in Michigan. www.firericksnyder.org]]></description>
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		<title>Lopsided Agenda Sinking The GOP</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/09/lopsided-agenda-sinking-the-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meyerson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect If you think it is Rep. Paul Ryan&#8217;s gutting of Medicare that is pulling the Republicans down, you need to think bigger. The House Budget Committee chairman&#8217;s proposal to convert Medicare into a private insurance-voucher plan is indeed a political calamity for the GOP, as the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Colbert: Autocratic For the People</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/stephen-colbert-autocratic-for-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/stephen-colbert-autocratic-for-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is how Republicans govern: The Colbert Report Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word &#8211; Autocratic for the People www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor &#38; Satire Blog Video Archive]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin State Senator Hansen: Once a Teamster, Always a Teamster</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/09/wisconsin-state-senator-hansen-once-a-teamster-always-a-teamster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/09/wisconsin-state-senator-hansen-once-a-teamster-always-a-teamster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Scott Walker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James P. Hoffa General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Dave Hansen is one of the 14 Democratic senators from Wisconsin who courageously left their state in a show of solidarity that has captured the attention of the nation. The senators oppose a budget proposal that, if passed, would end collective bargaining for state employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attacks on Unions Barking up the Wrong Money Tree</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/26/attacks-on-unions-barking-up-the-wrong-money-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/26/attacks-on-unions-barking-up-the-wrong-money-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Winship Former senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS &#8220;More cheese, less sleaze!&#8221; That was the funniest group chant at Tuesday&#8217;s rally of several hundred union and other progressive activists outside the Manhattan headquarters of Fox News. Several &#8220;cheeseheads&#8221; were in attendance, their noggins topped by the now familiar wedge-shaped, orange hatwear [...]]]></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>
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		<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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		<title>McCain secretly plans new tax on middle class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/09/13/mccain-secretly-plans-new-tax-on-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/09/13/mccain-secretly-plans-new-tax-on-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President John McCain should not be traveling in a bus called the Straight Talk Express. No, that equivocating multimillionaire who kowtows constantly to the wealthy should be riding in one of those private, gilded railroad cars. That would be symbolically appropriate as well since he is trying to railroad the [...]]]></description>
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