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		<title>Unity Is Strength for Progressives</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/unity-is-strength-for-progressives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business and liberal elites have long invested in developing collaborative leadership. In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together. Something huge is happening in this country. It&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve seen this level of populist activity directed at the right targets: the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Fixing the Jobs Crisis Without Unions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/13/theres-no-fixing-the-jobs-crisis-without-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans need jobs and America needs work.  But corporations are not investing their $2.5 trillion in profits in the US.  Consumers don’t have money or are too scared to spend it.  President Obama promised to do what corporations won’t and consumers can’t.  However, it won’t happen if Congress is not effectively pressured to pass the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Spotlights Americans United Ad &#8220;Reckless&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/cnn-spotlights-americans-united-ad-reckless/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/cnn-spotlights-americans-united-ad-reckless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP can&#8217;t come up with an original ad concept?]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out Video Highlights S.B. 5 Repeal Parade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/04/check-out-video-highlights-s-b-5-repeal-parade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/04/check-out-video-highlights-s-b-5-repeal-parade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A semi-truck stuffed with petitions delivered nearly 1.3 million signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State on June 29 in order to put union busting SB 5 up for a citizen&#8217;s veto. Thousands of Ohioans marched through the streets of the capitol in the People&#8217;s Parade to deliver the signatures, which were over five times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurses, Unions Propose Wall Street Tax</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/03/nurses-unions-propose-wall-street-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/03/nurses-unions-propose-wall-street-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street&#8217;s sway over politicians. The nurses want a new tax on almost all financial transactions to support U.S. health care. History and practice, however, are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds Unionized Coal Mines Substantially Safer</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/25/8920/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/25/8920/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mine safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Trumka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that miners in unionized coal mines are far less likely to be killed or injured on the job than miners in nonunion operations. The independent study funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that “unionization predicts an 18-33 percent drop in traumatic injuries and a 27-68 percent drop in fatalities.”

The comprehensive study, conducted by Stanford University law professor Alison D. Morantz,  the John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, looked at coal mine fatality and injury statistics from 1993 to 2008.

Mine Workers (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts says the study “quantifies the profound differences in safety underground coal miners experience when working union versus working nonunion.”]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Union Town&#8221; by Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/23/union-town-by-tom-morello-the-nightwatchman/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/23/union-town-by-tom-morello-the-nightwatchman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Save Workers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit http://saveworkers.org to join the fight and download "Union Town" for free.]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in the War on Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/23/this-week-in-the-war-on-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/23/this-week-in-the-war-on-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Kos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's speech at the National Press Club this week provides an important context for why we need to be paying attention—careful, specific attention—to the war on working people. Not just union workers, let's be clear. Although unions are often the most visible target (or scapegoat), this extends way beyond unions to an assault on the broader American middle class, and that's how Trumka approached it.]]></description>
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		<title>Pocono Medical Center Workers and 5,000 Union Sisters and Brothers Rally to Keep their Union</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/20/pocono-medical-center-workers-and-5000-union-sisters-and-brothers-rally-to-keep-their-union/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/20/pocono-medical-center-workers-and-5000-union-sisters-and-brothers-rally-to-keep-their-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Negri SEIU New Media Campaign Manager &#8211; Healthcare Division The attack on union workers is spreading like a cancer &#8211; attempting to reach every Main Street in the United States. Whether it is Wisconsin, Ohio, or a small town nestled in Pennsylvania, big business and their political allies are on the hunt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>150 Years Later, We’re Still Fighting the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/16/150-years-later-we%e2%80%99re-still-fighting-the-civil-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/16/150-years-later-we%e2%80%99re-still-fighting-the-civil-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civl war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Sumter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect The key to understanding the Civil War, which began 150 years ago this week, is to realize that it’s still being fought. Indeed, it’s being fought now more intensely than at any time since the 1960s. Then, African Americans and white Northern liberals and moderates battled Southern [...]]]></description>
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