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State by state, thousands of workers and community groups are taking this two-week congressional recess as an opportunity to speak directly to their members of Congress about the Employee Free Choice Act.
In more than 300 public events, including rallies, town hall meetings, phone banks and deliveries of letters to the local offices of members of the House and Senate, workers and allies in the religious, civil rights and small business communities are letting their elected officials know they demand quick passage of this critical bill protecting workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Already, the broad coalition for Employee Free Choice has seen successful recess events, including a rally attended by 150 people in Arkansas, the hand-delivery of hundreds of letters in Pennsylvania and 1,000 workers marching through San Diego. Events in support of the Employee Free Choice Act are taking place nationwide.
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In Indiana, local small business owners got together Friday for a community meeting to talk about why they support the Employee Free Choice Act and workers’ freedom to form unions.
For David Livinghouse, the owner of a restaurant in Indianapolis, his business depends on having a strong customer base. The tough times for Indiana’s economy have hurt his restaurant, and the best remedy, he says, is making sure workers have good jobs with fair wages. He also credits his father’s union with giving him a middle-class upbringing and the opportunity to start a business, as well as providing his father with a secure pension that supports him in retirement.
Elsewhere in Indiana, letter-writing sessions continue as union members and allies reach out to Congress, and the Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor hosted a gathering in support of the Employee Free Choice Act today.
Another small business event took place Friday in Van Buren, Ark., where three members of the business community talked about why they felt the Employee Free Choice Act was critical to a strong economy, for workers and employers alike.
The AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff is on the road in support of the massive grassroots campaign, visiting Nebraska and Colorado to help mobilize workers.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says the size and scale of the grassroots efforts in support of the Employee Free Choice Act are signs of the momentum for workers’ freedom to form unions.
This massive grassroots mobilization shows that working people really want and need passage of real labor law reform in 2009. Without workers’ freedom to bargain for better wages and benefits, our economy can’t be rebuilt for everyone.
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I work in a factory were people have been fired for union activity for over six years we have battled while the company continues to violate our rights. With this becoming law we would not had and still be going thru this battle and I am thankful that the wonderful union that we want to belong to has stood behind the employees the whole time they did not forget us and even we do not belong to their union yet!! They have been their to stand up for our rights, and have hung in there to be for the employees. Thank you to all the reps at the bctgm for standing with us and fighting for us lets pray this becomes a law so NOBODY else suffers as have the employees at Consolidated Biscuit.
TITLE: Obama’s immediate global economics“change”.
SUMMARY: Let’s”change” the fraud of Corporate Globalisation to a real global normalised economy with a “regulating legally-binding Monetary Sys- tem”.
Since FDR abandoned under pressure by Wall Street, the regulatory legally-binding international monetary system that recognized reserves of tangible value as the standard of worth that all Central Banks had to maintain in their coffers to support the value of their currencies, there is no global economy. When the only international economic regulator was abandoned by the USA the international circulation of currencies was handled by the global banking establishment without respecting any standard, but using the numerical quotations of Stock Markets as value to add their own speculation to their profitable manipulative activities.
The economic global free-for-all anarchy of corporate smutty-rich globalisation lasts now 80 years if we fix 1929 as the initial date of this betrayal of FDR’s White House by the bankers, CEOs, financiers and speculators of Wall Street. During those long 80 years the grimmy rich has built a perfect economic imbalance between rich and poor in the Corporate Globalisation which is imposed on all Nations as an economic apparatus. But, no economic process can ever exist is there is no “agreed” standard of value to fix the rate of currencies and establish the capacity of trade of all Nations. President Obama - if he intends to keep some of his promises of a change - he must restore a regulatory global monetary system giving equal opportunity to all Nations, big or poor, strong of weak, belligerent or pacific, as one of the reasons why he was elected to govern. Bush’s financial crisis cannot be solved if the global financial crisis is not solved simultaneously. The fiasco of the G-20 confirms that the Empire of the Filthy Rich doesn’t say anything of substance. Yes… They are going to respect something… sometime … eventually, like the Kyoto Accord of beautiful, touching, deep and most heart-felt eloquent poetry with sensitive political convoluted yuxtaposition of pretty and lyric words, which together are a gloomy, sombre and empty rhapsody of nothings and zeros marching to the abyss.
The “real economics” crisis can be corrected if President Obama and all the leaders of the World respect the advise of their own engineers, because real economics is an engineering specialty where ignorant, opportunistic and greedy lobbyists have no business to mess around, even if they own all the governments on Earth. The real global economic system is one of the simplest engineering processes and can be restored - by engineers - with very little effort. What is lacking in all Nations is “political will” - because the lobbyist special interests, and many other kinds of international crooks - have imposed a global empire of fascist dictatorships where the filthy rich governments with bribed Parliaments that do not represent the citizens that elected them. The citizens must vote politically correct, or else…
Assuming that President Obama is honest (as he appears to be) and eventually he may stumble on his many promissory speeches about “change”, the most productive change he can make - among his litany of promises - is as follows:
- The Federal Reserves must be responsable to fix the value of the Dollar like all Central Banks. They must return to be the managers of the values of the currencies of all Nations. Governments should prohibit the trade of currencies in stock market, under heavy pentalty. The Deparment of the Treasury must become the Department of Economics and a techno-economist must be named Secretary, not a politician owned by lobbyists of the global powers of globalisation. The present Secretary Tim Geithner is a gooddy-gooddy guy but needs to learn engineered economics (www.e-libro.net where he can find 5 treatises on Scientific Human Economics of mine) to assist President Obama in doing the promises changes in the Government of Washington. He has issue two decisions:
1) The USA adopts as universal standard of value the “GNP/capita” and invite all other Nations to do the same.
2) All currencies must be pegged, tied-down or obligated in a legally binding manner, to this universal standard of value to initiate reciprocal bilateral trade among pairs of Nations, to achieve full global employment by December 2011, without incurring more debt.
3) all currencies will have an invariable value during 365 days. The first of January each year, the Secretariat of the UN will issue upgrade values of the GNP/capita and the value of currencies will be upgrade accordingly, to continue being perfectly invariable for the next 365 days.
President Obama - out of sefl-respect only - must adopt a serious and responsible change of the value of currencies on a universal standard representing the economic strength of each country, particularly when China and other speculating nations wish to modify their no-value-speculator-paper-money to please their own stock markets and to rate it in a way to manipulate further the slumping trade of America (which soon will be also manipulated by Putin and Chavez). Globalisation is a fraud and the no-value-paper currencies manipulated by the owners of globalisation is intended to rob the nations to benefit the crooked billionaires, such as Bernard Madoff, who own this global fraud. With the paper economy of America, the Chinese monetary gimmick may have serious effects in aggravating the paper-money crisis of Wall Street and on the financial manipulators of America.
The “Change” from the global paper-economy back to a global real technically-manageable economy of currencies related to a universal standard where the Central Banks manage the value of currencies will restore a global monetary system of value currencies that will allow all Nations equal opportunity to manage their own trade and improve it in bilateral, reciprocal, equal value agreements which will lead to global full employment by December 2011. The present financial manipulated crisis is only a symptom of the real economic crisis of the world that lingers since 1929. This “change” by President Obama will finally solved the economic crisis started by Wall-Street in 1929 and will strengthen the Global Economy to start keeping our Kyoto commitments.
The sluggish “executive-welfare financial Stimulus” can continue being used as the political gizmo that pleases, politicians, lobbyists, special interests and other empty skulls with no important occupations, although it is very ineffective to create massive new jobs as it is necessary today, in every corner of America and in every hamlet in the World.
I believe that most people in America and the World are tired of speeches on the “Marvelous and Novel Stimulus”, which is dumping tax-payers’ dough on the executives of bankrupt corporations which is not a real economic “repairing or regulatory measure”. It would be time for President Obama - out of sefl-respect -to surprise the World with his “first real change” by giving all nations fix, invariable value-currencies and a monetary system democratic, fair and useful to allow all pairs of Nations to increase their reciprocal trade as they wish without incurring “debt” and keeping the currencies in the national banks, to serve small and medium size industries, community development and “mortgages”. As other nations come out of the global crisis by his wise return to a technical global economy for human beings, the economy of America will improve in parallel.
This will be done soon. If the lobbyists owners of the politicians in Washington prevent President Obama (like they did with FDR) to set regulations to the global economy and to trade, President Chavez (achieving a rate of yearly growth of 5%+ during the last 5 years) with the support of Russia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Brasil, and most likely the Whole of the Third Wolrd will have ratified in the Assembly the “Economic Charter of Rights and Responsibilities of the Member Nations of the UN”. which is the global regulator that is lacking now, since FDR was betrayed by the smart asses of Wall-Street.
If Venezuela - with the help of Russia and the Third World - must take over from Obama the economic leadership in the General Assembly, the total and irreversible deterioration of America would remain forever in the bottom where Bush dumped it. Belated efforts by Obama will be “window dressing” hoping electoral pay-back in the next election, when the word “change” would be a laughing slogan of the Republicans.
Jorge Torrealba, Director General, TEIC,
Halifax, NS, Canada.
1-902-448-7417
human.economics@ns.sympatico.ca
http://www.e-libro.net
CC: - Press Attaches of the Embassies of Russia and all Third World Countries accredited in Ottawa. (With my request to send to the Secre- tariats of your leader and to the National Media. Thanks. J.T.)
- Ms. Valerie Jarret, Senior Advisor, White House. (With my request that Ms. Jarret ensures that the President and the First Lady are informed.
Thanks. J.T.).
- Secretariat of the Treasury, of Commerce and of Public Works.
Embassy of
Attention: The Press Attache.
Madam/Sir:
This Article was published in http://www.economiccrisis.org and we are sending copies to all the Member States of the UN.
Techno Economics International Consultants is a group of associated researchers and engineers who have developed the engineering procedures to contain the fraud of Globalisation to reorient the global economy to a technical global endeavour managed by the engineers of all Nations. It is important for your Nation, that this novelty material be known by your leaders and be published by the Media of your Country. (Our work follows the solution of the Engineers of the TVA in times of Roosevelt, but is updated to the technology of today).
Fortunately, if the corruption of Washington prevents President Obama to assume leadership in the UN to ratify a Charter of Economic Rights and Obligations of the Member States, Venezuela -very advanced in techno-economics - with the collaboration of Russia, China and the whole Third World will easily achieve this upgrading of Humanity by defeating forever the crooked American lobbyists’ rip-off of Globalisation.
Respectfully,
Jorge Torrealba, Director General, TEIC,
Halifax, NS, Canada
1-902-448-7417
human.economics@ns.sympatico.ca
http://www.e.libro.net (books on Scientific Human Economics available here)