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*Univisión - Obama lanzó nuevo plan de estimulo (Yanira Merino, LIUNA & Hilda Solís, DOL)
http://www.univision.com/content/video.jhtml?cid=2526561&channelName=Videos&_requestid=27743
*La Opinión - Sindicatos en campaña electoral (Sergio Rascón LIUNA Local 300)
* La Opinión - Una economía atascada (Sergio Rascón LIUNA Local 300)
*Univisión - Sindicato Internacional de Trabajadores se reintegra a AFL-CIO
http://www.univision.com/contentroot/wirefeeds/usa/8273101.shtml
*El Mexicano - "LIUNA Construye Indiana 2010" luchará por trabajos en ciudades cercanas de Gary (Página 5) http://www.elmexicanonews.com/newspaper/september/septembernewspaper.html
Impre.com - Manos hispanas reconstruyen Zona Cero
http://www.impre.com/noticias/2010/9/10/manos-hispanas-reconstruyen-zo-209924-1.html#commentsBlock
EFE - Los latinos y la salud (El Presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, escribe esta interesante columna.)
http://www.impre.com/noticias/nacionales/2010/9/7/los-latinos-y-la-salud-209385-1.html#commentsBlock
La Opinión - Entrevista exclusiva con Presidente Obama
El Tiempo LV - Futuras contrataciones en EE.UU. beneficiarán a personal calificado
http://www.eltiempolv.com/articles/2010/09/10/nacional/doc4c8a807c8a221899704332.txt
La Voz Arizona - Destinan recursos para ayudar a propietarios de viviendas
http://www.lavozarizona.com/lavoz/noticias/articles/2010/09/10/20100910destinan.html
Washington Hispanic - Corte frena ley contra inmigrantes
http://www.washingtonhispanic.com/nota5297.html
El Tiempo Latino - Convocan a otra marcha en DC
http://eltiempolatino.com/ind_window/convocan.html
Washington Hispanic - CHCI le da la bienvenida al mes de herencia hispana
http://www.washingtonhispanic.com/nota5299.html
CNN - Los mineros de Chile envían a la superficie un video con su rutina
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tion site at 6th Street, SW yesterday morning, protesting contractor Southland Concrete’s “unsafe practices, unfair layoffs and poor working conditions.” The workers are organizing with the United Construction Workers (UCW) union, but allege that they have been fired, intimidated and harassed by Southland Concrete for their pro-union activity. “Southland fired me for wanting to join a union and have a voice on the job,” said Misael Rivera (at right), a construction worker with over 18 years experience. “They are trying to stop me from speaking out about the daily abuse, poor pay and horrible working conditions – they even offered me double my old salary if I promised to stop organizing.” At-Large DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson – who is up for re-election in the September 14 primary, and is expected to be at Saturday's 
y renewed his pledge of support for nurses at the Washington Hospital Center (WHC). Earlier this year, Gray expressed his disappointment in the hospital’s firings and disciplinary actions against nurses and other staff who were unable to make it to work during the massive snowstorms that paralyzed the city in February. At a meeting with the leadership of Nurses United on Wednesday, Gray agreed to send a letter to WHC President John Sullivan urging settlement of a contract that will preserve quality care and safety at Washington Hospital Center by providing nurses the pay, benefits, and respect they deserve. "Vince really listened to our concerns and we are excited to have his support," said Nurses United President Dottie Hararas. Nurses United represents the 1600 nurses at Washington Hospital Center who have been working without a contract since the end of June. The union will be meeting in the coming days to decide on an endorsement in the September 14 Democratic primary. .jpg)
rmy to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads were not returned to their owners until two years later (8/27/1950); The march for jobs and freedom—the Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream" speech march (l)—is held in Washington, D.C. with 250,000 participating (8/28/1963); Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club vote 57-15 to be represented by SEIU Local 790. Their first union contract, ratified eight months later, guaranteed work shifts, protection against arbitrary discipline and termination, automatic hourly wage increases, sick days, a grievance procedure, and removal of one-way mirrors from peep show booths (8/29/1996); Northwest Airlines pilots, after years of concessions to help the airline, begin what is to become a two-week strike for higher pay (8/29/1998); More info & ammo for unionists is available online from 
nd it's where Vice President Biden has his office, along with many other White House officials. The Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers union (BAC) found out recently that despite all the Obama administration's rhetoric about providing decent, green, union jobs, the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a masonry restoration project at the building to a non-union contractor. "We're in the middle of the biggest recession since the great depression and president Obama has spoken forcefully about the need to create good jobs with good benefits," says BAC Local 1's Raymond Keen, "So why did the President's administration give this major contract to a company that doesn't provide good benefits and pays its employees far less than responsible local contractors?" Keen told Union City yesterday afternoon that after meeting with BAC President James Boland on Tuesday, GSA representatives have committed to working more closely with organized labor in the future and have increased the workers' pay and benefits, but not to the levels the BAC says are appropriate. 
– is now drawing much-deserved national attention, including a front-page New York Times 
of large corporations – they are paramount to strengthening the brawn and brains of unions,” said Australian labor activist and author Amanda Tattersall (r) at yesterday’s lunchtime discussion at the AFL-CIO. “Unions cannot win on our own – it is vital that we bring others to the movement around social change issues not isolated to collective bargaining.” Tattersall reflected on experiences based on campaigns in Australia, Canada and the United States and explored five key lessons to sustain an effective social movement, which are the focus of her new book, 
s on a picket line in Brackenridge, Penn. Sellins was a United Mine Workers of America organizer and Starzeleski was a miner (1919); After two-thirds of the states had ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, women win their long struggle for the vote (1920); With America in the depths of the Great Depression, the Comptroller of the Currency announces a temporary halt on foreclosures of first mortgages (1932); In what some may consider one of the many management decisions that was to help cripple the American auto industry over the following decades, Ford Motor Co. produces its first Edsel. Ford dropped the project two years later after losing approximately $350 million (1957); More than 1,300 bus drivers on Oahu, Hawaii begin what is to become a five week strike (2003); More info & ammo for unionists is available online from 
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who work as assistant principals, school psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, special education coordinators and other service providers. Despite their significant role in day-to-day student success and achievement, “DCPS has inexplicably decided to freeze out these individuals from a fair share of the millions of federal dollars that have been specifically approved to fairly compensate education professionals,” CSO said in a letter to Fenty and Rhee last week. The union is calling on Fenty and Rhee to “fully explain and document the types of funds being used by DCPS to compensate employees and where that money is being spent.”
the inspiring story of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors whose successful December 2008 sit-in transfixed the nation. The screening was sponsored by the 
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blic employees, last week launched an ad campaign targeting D.C.’s mayor (r). In the “
nion members and their children can now save up to 50% on college test prep courses (including SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT) from the Princeton Review. The new offerings also include courses covering college financial aid (including FAFSA tips) and the college admissions process; union members can choose from in-person classes, tutoring or online courses. “Union groups that want to offer courses, free tests, etc. to their membership can contact 
st but labor journalism blossomed: within five years there were 68 labor newspapers across the country, many of them dailies (1827); The Gatling Gun Co. – manufacturers of an early machine gun – writes to B&O Railroad Co. President John W. Garrett during a strike, urging their product be purchased to deal with the "recent riotous disturbances around the country." Says the company: "Four or five men only are required to operate (a gun), and one Gatling ... can clear a street or block and keep it clear" (1877); National Association of Letter Carriers formed (1889); United Farm Workers Union begins lettuce strike (1970); More info & ammo for unionists is available online from