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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Unions</title>
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		<title>The FAA Bill is an Attack on Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/02/06/the-faa-bill-is-an-attack-on-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen says it exactly right here about unions, &#8220;We&#8217;re under attack every minute.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy v. Plutocracy, Unions v. Servitude</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/29/democracy-v-plutocracy-unions-v-servitude/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/29/democracy-v-plutocracy-unions-v-servitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Servitude: &#8220;a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one&#8217;s course of action or way of life&#8221; Democracy: &#8220;a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections&#8221; Plutocracy: government by the wealthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons Why Organized Labor Will Win</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/06/10-reasons-why-organized-labor-will-win/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/06/10-reasons-why-organized-labor-will-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no denying the congressional Democrats and President Obama have been major disappointments, and there&#8217;s no denying that the forces arrayed against America&#8217;s unions have done considerable damage. Those are facts. But despite the hype being generated by Fox News, and the self-serving propaganda being spread by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the anti-labor crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers urge Criminal Charges in Upper Big Branch Disaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/lawmakers-urge-criminal-charges-in-upper-big-branch-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/lawmakers-urge-criminal-charges-in-upper-big-branch-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice must “go up Massey’s chain of command as far as possible” and hold accountable those individuals responsible for the deaths of 29 coals miners at Massey Energy’s Big Branch (W.Va.) mine in 2010, a group of lawmakers urged Attorney General Eric Holder. In a letter to Holder from Rep. George Miller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Vote Big Cuts to Jobless Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/republicans-vote-big-cuts-to-jobless-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/republicans-vote-big-cuts-to-jobless-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Republicans voted (234-193) Wednesday to cut more than in half the number of weeks jobless workers can collect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits next year. The bill also cuts pay for public employees, cuts preventive health services, reduces premium assistance for low- and middle-income individuals buying health insurance and raises premiums for many Medicare beneficiaries. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Economists Call for Higher Taxes on Mega-Rich</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/top-economists-call-for-higher-taxes-on-mega-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/top-economists-call-for-higher-taxes-on-mega-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study by a team of top economists finds that if the tax rate for the highest-income Americans was pegged at—drum roll please—83 percent—it wouldn’t impact anyone but the “mega-rich.” When Ronald Reagan and his Republican successors began three decades of hacking away at the taxes the rich paid—once as high as 80 percent—they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Obscene Executive Pay Spark the Financial Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/did-obscene-executive-pay-spark-the-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/did-obscene-executive-pay-spark-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard all the reasons given for the economic implosion of 2008: the bursting of the housing bubble, the risky investments of financial firms, the use of incomprehensible financial instruments as get-rich-quick-schemes—all of them the result of a massive agenda of across-the-board deregulation pushed by Republican lawmakers since the 1980s. But at the root of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the Rich Does Create Jobs, Says Venture Capitalist</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/taxing-the-rich-does-create-jobs-says-venture-capitalist/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/taxing-the-rich-does-create-jobs-says-venture-capitalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Hanauer is another multimillionaire who says its time to tax the rich. The venture capitalist, who has launched more than 20 companies and is an original investor in Amazon.com, says Republicans are completely wrong when they claim that raising taxes on the rich—the so-called job creators—would kill job growth because “Rich people like me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Unemployment Aid Sets to Expire, Jobless Worker Says: &#8220;All of Us Need to Stand Together&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/as-unemployment-aid-sets-to-expire-jobless-worker-says-all-of-us-need-to-stand-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/as-unemployment-aid-sets-to-expire-jobless-worker-says-all-of-us-need-to-stand-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Maile’s supervisor called her into a conference room with all of her co-workers to hear the news: It was their last day of employment at Level 3 Communications in Pittsburgh. That was it. The jobs were gone to India. “I couldn’t stop crying,” said Maile, a divorced mother of one, who until that moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Newt?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/28/really-newt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/28/really-newt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich, frontrunner for the GOP nomination for president, wants schools to fire their union janitors and hire youngsters to do the cleaning instead. Get rid of those pesky child labor laws that keep children out of the classrooms and in the labor pool, Gingrich says. While at the same time, increase adult unemployment, Gingrich [...]]]></description>
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