An Injury to One is an Injury to All!VOL. 116

NO. 19APRIL 6, 2011WEDNESDAY

(ISSN 0023-6667)

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AFSCME 66’s David Leonzal reminded those who attendedthe We Are One rally Monday, that Martin Luther King wasin Memphis in 1968 in support of striking public employeeswhen he was assassinated. “Our struggle didn’t end 43 yearsago,” Leonzal said on the anniversary of King’s murder.

1st GOP recall whizzes thruOn Friday, April Fool’s Day the first recall petition was filed

in Wisconsin on behalf of voters against a senator who ignoredtheir pleas and sided with Republican Gov. Scott Walker againstworking families.

“In just under half the allotted time, our supporters gatheredfar more than enough signatures to force Senator Dan Kapanketo face the voters and explain his vote to deny workers theirrights,” said Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President Phil Neuen-feldt.

All the signatures will need to be checked to make sure theyare accurate, that there are no duplicates, and the required num-ber of valid signatures (15,588) was reached. The effort had untilMay 2, 2011 to hit their mark.

You can follow the action against the eight eligibleRepublicans at http://www.recalltherepublican8.com.

The LaCrosse Tribune reported that Kapanke could face anelection on the sixth Tuesday after the state says the recall peti-tion is valid. If there are multiple challengers that would be a pri-mary election, with a general election four weeks later.

There are also recalls against 8 eligible Democratic Senators,who were part of the Fab 14 that left the state rather than submitto Walker’s mainlining of his “budget repair bill.”

A website has started the process of recalling Gov. Walker.Actual recall petitions cannot be circulated until November, butwww.unitedwisconsin.com is up and has links to other sites.

There is an official state website for keeping track of what’shappening at http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/recall.

Wal-Mart case is high stakesBy Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff WriterWASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the

world’s largest sex-discrimination case, pitting 1.6 million pres-ent and former female workers against retail monster Wal-Mart,has high stakes for all workers, preview panel participants said.

The justices heard oral arguments on the case, which has beenkicking around lower courts for a decade, on March 29. At issueis whether the women can sue Wal-Mart – known for its always-low wages, always-high-cost health care plan and always- viru-lent and often-illegal anti-unionism – as a class.

The women, half still at the retail monster, say they can sueas a class. Wal-Mart says they can’t, under federal court rulesgoverning class action suits. It wants them to sue it one by one.

Panelists assembled by the American Constitution Society onMarch 25 agreed “class certification” to let the case proceed onits merits in the lower courts is the key issue the justices mustdecide. Several asserted the court’s ruling could have wide ram-ifications for other workers at companies large and small.

“This involves whether or not the nation’s anti-discriminationlaws will have the full force and effect Congress intended whenit passed them,” said Marcia Greenberger of the NationalWomen’s Law Center who was heavily involved in Lilly

Judge Sumi stands tough with Walker TRO

“We Are One!” rallies heard around U.S.

have state computers preparedto deduct provisions of the billfrom state workers’ paychecksas of the April 21 pay period.The cuts would average aboutan 8% drop in income forworkers, but many other meas-ures in the bill would effective-ly destroy their unions.

Other lawsuits over the billand the method by whichRepublicans passed it beyondthe one Sumi issued her TROon are also pending.

Supreme Court over the issue.The court is a 5-4 conservativemajority but an important racefor one of the seats that con-cluded last night will havemuch to say about how votersfeel and about the future of thestate.

Republicans have statedthey will not try to usher thesame bill back through the leg-islature. Walker stated it’s onlya matter of time before his billbecomes law.

He had gone so far as to

Dane County Circuit JudgeMaryann Sumi laid down thelaw again on WisconsinRepublicans’ effort to imple-ment Gov. Scott Walker’s“budget repair bill.”

On March 18 Sumi hadissued a temporary restrainingorder (TRO) blocking theimplementation of Walker’sbill that strips hundreds ofthousands of public employeesof collective bargaining rights,among many egregious offens-es against Wisconsin’s middleclass. But Republican SenateMajority Leader ScottFitzgerald and his allies triedanother end-around the processthat makes a bill become a law.Because Democratic Secretaryof State Doug LaFollette wouldnot publish the bill againstSumi’s TRO, Republicans gotWalker’s top aide, MikeHuebsch, Secretary of the De-partment of Administration, topost the bill on-line.Republicans then tried to saythe bill was now in effect.

On March 31 Judge Sumi,obviously perturbed atRepublicans disrespect for thelaw, told them emphaticallythat the law was not in effect.Republicans contend she isinserting the judiciary into thelegislative process, but Walkerand company acquiesced andapparently will wait for theirday with the Wisconsin State

Across America Monday,including locally in Duluth andVirginia, more than 1,000 soli-darity events in all 50 statesand several foreign countrieswere held to fight for regainingthe country for the people. InSt. Paul over 5,000 attended.

Labor was joined by alliesin communities of color andthe environmental movementto say the right wing agendahas gone too far in destroyingwhat the people hold dear.

The events took place on the43rd anniversary of the murderof Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,which AFSCME Local 66’sDavid Leonzal remembered at

a noon rally by 150 in Duluth. Leonzal is a city employee

who told the gathering Kingwas assassinated in Memphis,where he had gone in 1968 insupport of striking AFSCMEsanitation workers, who werein a struggle for collective bar-gaining rights. Those workers,all African-Americans were sopoorly paid that they qualifiedfor welfare as full time work-ers. The night before his death,King gave his famous "I havebeen to the mountain top"speech to those sanitationworkers and civil rightsactivists.

“Our labor movement isstronger when we work foreach other, from the days of the“I AM A MAN” fight inMemphis,” Leonzal said inaddressing the crowd. “Ourstruggle didn’t end 43 yearsago. We’re in a fight for funda-mental human rights” againstgovernors in many states thatare trying to take them away.”

In the theme of all the ralliesLeonzal asked “if we will riseto the occasion” and he saidlabor and its allies will because“We Are One!”

Stacy Spexet, President ofUSW Local 9460, a healthcareunion, asked if those presentwould fight alone “or join toform an unstoppable move-ment” to take on the battles thatare being forced upon us. Shegot a resounding “We AreOne!”

The rallies were a call for anend to the attacks on workingpeople in state legislatures andgovernors’ mansions and callsto focus on creating jobs andpassing a budget that protectsmiddle class families.

Claudie Washington, Presi-dent of the Duluth NAACP,said he remembered the OneNation rally last year that had asimilar message.

“Civil rights and labor haveparallel organizations andwe’re stronger for that,” Wash-ington said.

That evening a silent marchby 125 from the ClaytonJackson McGhie Memorialproceeded to a vigil at the CivicCenter. Marchers were greetedby a recording of Dr. King’s“mountaintop” speech andwhen it was over it was diffi-

No Wisconsin election resultsAs this issue goes off to press, the polls in

Wisconsin were still going to be open for eight hourson their election day, Tuesday, April 5. We regret notbeing able to get election results in this issue.

“Silkwood” will be Labor Movie Night feature for Workers’ Memorial DayApril’s Labor Movie Night

falls on the official date forWorkers’ Memorial Day andthe featured film is a perfect fit.

“Silkwood” will be shownThursday, April 28, 6:00 p.m.in Wellstone Hall of the DuluthLabor Temple, 2002 LondonRoad (enter via lowest level,facing Lake Superior on SouthSt.). It is free and open to thepublic. Refreshments and childcare are available.

The 1983 film is about

Joint Finance Committeebudget hearing @ Wessman

Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance will hold a publichearing on Gov. Walker’s “budget repair bill” at Wessman Arenain Superior Friday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The meetingwas moved from Minong because of the interest generated.

Sen. Bob Jauch is a member of the committee and reps. NickMilroy and Janet Bewley will join committee members.

The event is open to the public and concerned citizens arestrongly encouraged to attend. A few days after Walker firstunveiled his state budget proposal on Feb. 11, citizens descend-ed on Madison to testify before a session of that committee butwere cut off by Republican leaders who claimed they were onlythere to engage in a “citizen filibuster.” Jauch and otherDemocrats have been holding town hall meetings across the stateas listening sessions due to the incredible amount of interest.

LECET scholarships, grantsMinnesota Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education

Trust provides financial assistance programs to help individualsworking in or seeking a career in the construction industry.

LECET’s $1,000 Academic Scholarship Program is open toapplicants in their second year or more at an approved institu-tion who have a declared major in a construction program.Applicants must be either a Minnesota Laborers Union memberor immediate family member, or a signatory contractor employ-ee or immediate family member.

LECET’s $1,000 Leadership Grant Program requires appli-cants to use grant assistance to further leadership developmenttraining through academic course work relating to constructionmanagement, leadership development and more. Applicantsmust be a current Minnesota Laborers Union member.

Information and applications are available at each MinnesotaLaborers Local Union, the Laborers Training Center and at pre-approved institutions. Application deadline is July 15, 2011.

For more program information visit www.mnlecet.org or con-tact Minnesota LECET at 651-429-1600.

Karen Silkwood, a Oil,Chemical & Atomic Worker’sunion (since merged with theUnited Steelworkers) memberwho was metallurgy worker atan Oklahoma Kerr-McGee plu-tonium processing plant. Shediscovered bad welds but wasblown off when she reportedthem, and later was purposeful-ly contaminated and psycho-logically tortured. Her level ofcontamination from radiationwas 40 times the safe limit and

she actually set off radiationalarms. Fearing for her life shescheduled a meeting with areporter to tell her story butnever made that meeting.Many people are convinced shewas murdered as her car wasforced off the road enroute toprevent her from exposing bla-tant worker safety violations atthe plant. She died November13, 1974 at the age of 28.

Directed by Mike Nicholsfrom the writing of NoraEphron and Alice Arlen, thefilm was nominated for fiveOscars. It stars Meryl Streep,Kurt Russell and Cher. Thefilm covers Silkwood’s storyfairly accurately but her reallife story is even more gutwrenching than the film.

She went to work at theplant as a young divorced

mother in 1972. Three monthslater OCAW went on strike atthe plant and Silkwood becamea union activist.

Much has been writtenabout her but one of the bestaccounts comes from TonyMazzocchi, an OCAW officialwho had been counselingSilkwood on how to proceedwith her concerns. Les Leopoldwrote an incredible biographyof him: The Man Who HatedWork and Loved Labor: TheLife and Times of TonyMazzocchi.

Just weeks after Silkwood’sdeath in her car, Mazzocchihad a similar unexplainable“car accident” but survived.Many give him credit foralmost single-handedly gettingthe federal government to cre-ate the Occupational Safetyand Health Administration onApril 28, 1970, which is whythat date was selected forWorkers’ Memorial Day.

Area’s climatechange forum

The League of WomenVoters Duluth and co-sponsorswill present “Climate Changein the Arrowhead - What’sAhead?” Thursday, April 14, 7-9 p.m., St. Luke's Auditorium-2nd Floor, 915 E. 1st Street.

The forum on what climatechange means for Minnesotaand Lake Superior has guestspeakers J. Drake Hamilton,Science Policy Director, FreshEnergy, Michael G Cashin P.E.,Environmental Policy Mana-ger, Minnesota Power/Allete,and Jay Austin, AssociateProfessor, Large LakesObservatory, UMD

Free parking is available atthe Northland Ramp.

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Heat & Frost Insulators Local 49May Meeting Date Changed

The regularly scheduled union meeting for May hasbeen changed to a week earlier. We will meet Friday,May 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Duluth Labor Temple.Apprenticeship school is Friday, May 6 also.

~ Dick Webber, Business Manager

I.U.O.E. Local 70Monthly Arrowhead Regional Meeting

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 5:00 P.M. Duluth Labor Center, Hall B

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You might remember I’m adog-loving union man from theBrian Ryks dead dog incidentsurrounding his claims againstUNITE HERE and his union-busting at his airport cafe.

Gov. Mark Dayton, a hugedog lover who, like me, is par-tial to German Shepherds, justsigned a bill that makes it afelony for anyone who injuresor kills a police or other publicsafety dog. That’s all good butit still bugged a delegate to theMarch Central Body meeting,who shall go nameless so noneof you Weimaraners bite her.She got me to scratching myfleas. She’s an EMOR RN whohas been assaulted at workseverely enough to require sur-gery. Know what the penalty isfor assaulting a nurse? Fifthdegree assault. Gov. Daytonneeds to become a huge nurselover too. Petting a dog willlower your blood pressure but anurse can save your life too.

• A lot of people get warmand fuzzy about Mitch Albom’swritings. Now you can too on aweekly basis with the DuluthNews Tribune’s “Mondays withMitch” on their Opinion page.“You cried when you read hisbook, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’”is how the DNT promo opensfor him. I remember him as asports writer I enjoyed quite along time ago.

Albom writes and talks agood game and has even stoodup for workers in his writings,but what I remember about himis he scabbed on his unionbrothers and sisters and crossedhis own picket line whenGannett’s Detroit News andKnight-Ridder’s Detroit FreePress had a joint operatingagreement and locked out theirworkers who had gone onstrike in July 1995. Thosenewspapers used lots of scabreplacements to effectively winthat huge fight. Shed a tearwith Mitch, I won’t. If I’mwrong someone set me straightand maybe I’ll take down the“NO News or Free PressWanted Here” sign on myoffice wall from Detroit.

• KUWS’s Mike Simonsongot a lot of great play out of hisApril Fool’s story that Wiscon-sin Assembly Democrats wererunning off to Duluth in a fit of“senate envy.” He quoted Rep.Nick Milroy and Duluth MayorDon Ness, both of whom Mikehad notified about his “story.”

“Those were their actual

quotes,” Mike said. Quite a few red-faced social

media giddy-ups got taken inand forwarded it. Mike’s afunny guy and that is a situa-tion that can use the humor heprovided. Better than looseningthe top of a salt shaker.

• Some serious folks showup on Mondays at noon for alaughing session at the foot ofthe flag in the Duluth CivicCenter. I wouldn’t know whereto call that up from inside me. Icould lay a wicked smile onthem like the extroverted Finnthat stares at your shoes whenhe talks to you.

• I am interested in that pro-gressive politics group thatmeets Tuesdays at a local pubto share a pint and discussthings, but I get buzzed soquick I’d ruin their meetings.End up in Hazelden restoringmy life with Republicans, inlockdown, thirsty, remorseful,lonesome for my Husky-some-thing. And The Wife, of course.even though she doesn’t al-ways lower my blood pressure.

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It’s time to rally By Frank Wanner, President Duluth Federation of Teachers

I am a teacher unionist andvery proud to be one. I have beenproud to be a part of the Amer-ican Federation of Teachers,working on committees andattending AFT Quest, the topeducation conference in thecountry. I am proud to haveserved as a Vice President of theold Minnesota Federation ofTeachers and on the GoverningBoard of Education Minnesota.

As a teacher I know howmuch has been done by theteacher unions to improve teach-ing and education. As a Historyteacher I know of the many con-tributions made by labor unionsto public education and to thegrowth of the middle class.

A few years ago I attended a national labor-management con-ference at which a speaker from the U.S. State Department toldus “there are no functional democracies in the world today whichdo not have both a strong system of public education and a freelabor movement.” She went on to explain the importance ofboth in a free and democratic society.

Today, in our increasingly less democratic America, both areunder attack. These attacks are intentional and well planned. InShakespeare’s Henry VI, a group of villainous scoundrels meetsto plot to seize the throne for one of their own. An evil killer,“Dick the Butcher” famously states “The first thing we do, let’skill all the lawyers.”

Today groups of villainous scoundrels called Republicansmeet at State Houses across the land and announce, ”The firstthing we do, let’s kill the unions.” They would strip teachers oftenure. They would strip unions of the right to organize and col-lectively bargain. They would destroy public employee healthinsurance and pensions. They would destroy the American mid-dle class to benefit the billionaires. Never again would unionsbe able to raise the amounts of money necessary to elect candi-dates and present the positions of working people. Americawould be governed by politicians purchased by the corporationsand the rich. Wikipedia defines a nation organized according tocorporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the polit-ical system and the economy as Fascism.

If indeed a functional Democracy requires both a strong sys-tem of public education and a free labor union movement, thenwe can easily guess at the real motives of those who attack both.

In 1971-72 Teacher unions and public employee unions wonthe right to organize and bargain contracts. It was a time of opti-mism. After a while we began to take these hard won rights forgranted. We are about to lose them. All that we have accom-plished is under attack. Public education is under attack. Unionsare under attack. The middle class is under attack. Now is thetime to stand up and be heard. Now is the time to rally together.This is a fight which we cannot afford to lose.

Frank Wanner at Duluth’s Feb. 24 rallyfor Wisconsin workers.

“Quote, Unquote”“Investing in education might be one of the best economic development tools we have. I’m very con-cerned about education. I grew up on the Iron Range… in the ’50s, it didn’t make any difference if you wentto school in Eveleth or Edina. It’s not that way now.It’s your ZIP code that determines what kind of quality education you get. Something’s wrong in Minnesota.”

~Minnesota Department of Employment and EconomicDevelopment Commissioner Mark Phillips at a March 25,2011 meeting with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.

~from http://www.minnpost.com

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April 6, 1712The first slave revolt in NewYork City took place, justnorth of Wall Street onMaiden Lane. A slave markethad been established for several years in the area onWall Street at the East River.Twenty-one blacks were exe-cuted for killing nine whites.New York responded to therevolt by strengthening itsslave codes.

April 6, 1970The Rev. Jesse Jackson, writ-ing in Time magazine, said,“When blacks are unem-ployed, they are consideredlazy and apathetic. Whenwhites are unemployed, it’sconsidered a depression.”

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Just go ahead and say it, “We all do better when we all do better!”By Erik PetersonThe rallying cry of the labor

movement is “an injury to oneis an injury to all.” The bibleteaches us that “I am my broth-er’s keeper.” BenjaminFranklin implored fellow dele-gates to sign the Declaration ofIndependence saying “we musthang together or most assured-ly we will all hang separately.”

And Paul Wellstone used toalways say “we all do betterwhen we all do better.”(Editor’s note: He probably gotthat from Jim Hightower, whosaid his Daddy always said it.)

What is happening in Wis-consin, Minnesota and acrossthe country is not a battle tobalance budgets. It is a battlebetween two very different sto-ries and visions of society.

On one side is a progressivestory of community, collective

rights and responsibilities. On the other side is a con-

servative story of competition,winners and losers, and indi-vidual choice and risk. Thisconservative story says “you’reon your own, good luck.You’re alone – make it work.”

The conservative’s storytries to convince us that freemarkets, deregulation, limitedgovernment, no unions, notaxes, and turning a blind eyeand deaf ear to those unem-ployed or less fortunate (orblaming them for bad lifechoices) will solve our prob-lems.

It says the most fortunate –the wealthiest individuals andcorporations – deserve theirenormous wealth even if itmeans so many others go withless, for we are told that is whatcompetition and free marketsare all about.

This conservative story pitsone group of workers againstanother. It demonizes immi-grants, Muslims, and any opin-ion that challenges free marketfundamentalism.

It says if I have been hurt,you should hurt as well.

So when Governor ScottWalker from Wisconsin refusesto accept public worker con-

cessions until they also give uptheir collective voice and rights– or when media commentatorsask “why should public sectorworkers enjoy rights and pro-tections that other workers donot?” – we hear the same con-servative story, a story thatdrives our politics and commu-nity life to the lowest domina-tor.

But there is also a progres-sive story which says all work-ers deserve a right to jointogether for mutual aid andbenefit – whether private sectorworkers or public sector work-ers, whether through a union, aco-op, or an association.

This right is the law of ourland, enshrined in the NationalLabor Relations Act, passed in1935, which protects the rightof “concerted activity” – theright to act collectively asworkers to negotiate in goodfaith and secure decent wages,benefits and working condi-tions without fear of reprisal.This is not a “union right,” butrather the right to create aunion.

Over the past 50 years,many states, includingMinnesota and Wisconsin haveextended this collective right topublic employees. Now sever-

al radical conservative gover-nors and legislatures are tryingto strip this fundamental rightaway.

The progressive story sayswe all have collective responsi-bility for one another and mustshare the burden in times ofdistress and challenge.

Budgets should not be bal-anced on the backs of workers,the middle class, or those whoare most vulnerable when themost fortunate contribute littleor nothing.

The wealthiest corporationsare sitting on over two trilliondollars in cash reserves, areearning record breaking profits,and are still not hiringAmerican workers. Forbesmagazine recently reported thatmany of the largest US corpo-rations paid little or no taxes,including General Electric withprofits of $10.3 billion andExxon Mobil with $45.2 bil-lion. The wealthiest Americans– the multi-billionaires andmillionaires – pay a smallerpercentage of their income intaxes than the teachers, fire-fighters, janitors and snowplow drivers now under attack.

Progressives believe thosewho are blessed with so much

also need to share the burden.Progressives believe in

respect for the dignity of allpeople and that all childrenmatter.

We should be able to lovewho we want, freely worshipthe God of our faith, and beable to pursue the AmericanDream regardless of where wecome from without being toldthat if you are gay or Muslim oran immigrant you and yourhuman rights do not matter.

The choice we face in these“budget battles” is whether wewill look out for the least ofthese my brethren, or if weonly aspire to look out afterourselves.

I remain hopeful that wewill reach higher. That we willtell that age old story that eachof us matters, live by the gold-en rule to do unto others whatwe would want done unto us,and remind the world and eachother that indeed “we all dobetter when we all do better.”

Erik Peterson is anAFSCME Local 66 member,longtime progressive politicalactivist and Director of Edu-cation and Labor Programsfor Wellstone Action,www.wellstone.org.

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Want to expedite the race to the bottom? Enact right-to-work legislationBy Dan Mikel, Gopher

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IF YOU ARE IN AHURRY, and do not have timeto read a whole article on pend-ing “right to work” legislation

Go figure “Show Me” stateJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —The Republican-controlled

Missouri senate ended its effort to enact a “right-to-work” billon March 14. Hooray! But then on April 2nd those sameRepublicans dropped a bomb on 34,000 state residents asMissouri became the first and only state to say “no” to the fed-eral stimulus program that offers extended unemployment insur-ance benefits to the jobless. Missouri will lose out on $105 mil-lion in benefits to 10,000 people immediately, and another esti-mated 24,000 state residents who are projected to become eligi-ble in the next nine month for unemployment benefits. That’s$105 million that will not circulate in the Missouri economy.

in Minnesota, just rememberthese two items:

No rights are being given.No work is being created.IF YOU HAVE A FEW

MINUTES, here are someadditional thoughts: “Right to work” laws

were part of the infamous TaftHartley Act of 1947 vetoed byPresident Truman. TheRepublican Congress overrodehis veto and the bill becamelaw.

Under Section 14b, statescould enact laws granting gov-ernment the right to stepbetween an employer and aunion and mandate that no onecould be required to join aunion. Employers who agreedto such a union security provi-sion in a contract had theiragreement nullified under 14b. “Right to work” laws

have been established in 22states. The last state to enactsuch legislation wasOklahoma, a decade ago. “Right to work” laws

upset any semblance of balanceas companies and unions striveto arrive at a contract. Imagineduring this basketball season of“March Madness” that twoteams are competing againsteach other and all of a sudden itis one team plus refereesagainst another team. It is notfair. There is no balance. “Right to work” laws

take away the natural check onthe power of corporate CEO’sthat unions provide. CorporateCEO’s will be driving down aone-way street. Their street. “Right to work” laws

seek to weaken or eliminateunion membership. Publicsafety is endangered as unionsadvocate for safe patient nursestaffing ratios in hospitals, asthey promote full staffing ofpolice and fire departments, asthey advocate for good educa-tion conditions for children –and our grandchildren/greatgrandchildren. Union bridgeinspectors are needed so morebridges do not collapse. Safeworking conditions for build-ing trades workers are neededand promoted by unions. Thelist goes on. “Right to work” laws

take away the collective voicesof the middle class and replaceit with the voice of a corporate

CEO. Who will speak for a liv-ing wage?

Try to imagine a Minnesotawithout unions. Who is speak-ing for working men andwomen? Are CEO’s protectingour pensions?

Corporate CEO’s andorganizations they control arebehind the drive to enhancetheir power and their profits atthe expense of working menand women. Minnesota is notthe only state where CEO’s areseeking to undermine unions.Attempted passage of “right towork” legislation is underwayin many states.

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The extensive remodeling being done to create a Vitta’sPizza in Canal Park is all being done by non-union contrac-tors so the project is being picketed by many BuildingTrades unions and their members, including Laborers1091’s Bill Cox, IBEW 242’s Bob O’Connor, and Bricklayers3’s Stan Paczynski. In a town that doesn’t need anotherpizza joint, any place would be better to spend your moneythan Vitta’s when it opens. Northern Lights Books/Giftshad been a great local business forced out by technology.

Labor law still matters since it began in 1935 says NLRB Chair Liebman

Wal-Mart discrimination case against women has high stakes...from page 1Ledbetter’s sexual pay dis-

crimination case. The justicesruled against Ledbetter 5-4,limiting her right to sue, andGreenberger helped draft thelaw overturning that verdict.

Lawyers’ discovery motionsin the Wal-Mart case – whichhasn’t been tried on its meritsyet – show a pattern and prac-

By Barb Kucera, editor, workdayminnesota.orgWhile collective bargaining is under attack in

many parts of the country, it remains one of the feweffective ways to preserve the American middle class,the chair of the National Labor Relations Board said.

The NLRB administers federal law safeguardingthe rights of private sector workers to organize unionsand bargain contracts. Wilma Liebman, with nearly14 years on the board, is one of its longest servingmembers. President Obama named her chair in 2009.

Liebman spoke March 31 at the University ofMinnesota Law School, where she discussed the his-tory and role of the National Labor Relations Board.Noting the turmoil that has erupted from Wisconsinto New Hampshire over the question of workerrights, she wished the debate “were less rancorous,”but added, “It has brought [collective bargaining]back into the public eye, the public discourse.”

While hundreds of thousands have mobilized forrallies and other events sparked by the current debate,the conflict over worker rights is nothing new,Liebman said. “The NLRB is no stranger to contro-versy,” she said. “The law is the product of fierce bat-tle, some of them quite bloody.”

In 1935, when Congress passed the NationalLabor Relations Act and created the NLRB, mostworkers had no right to a voice on the job. During theworst economic depression in U.S. history, millionsmarched in the streets, occupied factories and somedied in the struggle to win collective bargaining.

It’s worth remembering why Congress did what itdid. “The Act was seen as a means of restoring thecountry to economic prosperity by restoring the pur-chasing power of wage-earners,” she said. “The lawreally worked for the first few decades. Millions ofpeople achieved a middle class way of life throughcollective bargaining in major industries.”

Workers’ ability to achieve gains began to unrav-el, however, first through Congressional action andlater through economic change. In 1947, Congresspassed the Taft-Hartley Act, weakening some of thelabor protections contained in the NLRA.

In recent decades, the growth of a global econo-my, overseas competition, new technology and de-regulation have created new pressures, leading tomajor drops in union membership and ramping upemployer opposition to unions.

Today, many types of workers, such as independ-ent contractors, fall outside federal protection.

“It’s fair to say the law did not keep up with allthese changes,” Liebman said.

Despite efforts “to reinvigorate the law” in the1970s and more recently through the Employee FreeChoice Act, it has not been amended since Taft-Hartley. Each attempt gets bogged down in partisanand ideological division.

At times, the five-member NLRB has been nearlyimmobilized as appointments were held up inCongress or left unfilled. For 27 months during theBush administration, Liebman and one other board

member issued rulings and tried to carry on normalbusiness, despite three vacancies. The U.S. SupremeCourt later decided they did not have the authority toact and the board – now with four members – has torevisit many of those decisions.

Even though the National Labor Relations Actstates it is national policy to encourage the practice ofcollective bargaining, “I don’t think there is really aconsensus of what the statute is all about,” Liebmansaid. “There are still people in the business and legalcommunity who never accepted the legitimacy of thislaw in the first place.”

In recent decades, many NLRB and related courtdecisions have focused on individual – as opposed tocollective – rights, she said.

Despite being told that labor law is “dead, dying,ossified, neutered,” Liebman holds out hope. “Myanswer to it all is, ‘I’m not dead yet.’”

She said the board is making modest gains inkeeping the law “relevant and dynamic” by issuing anew rule requiring all employers to post workerrights notices in the workplace – something nevermandated before – and by making use of tools suchas injunctions to prevent the most serious abuses.

“I think that labor law still matters very much inthis country,” Liebman said. “The rights contained inthis statute are enduring values. They are now recog-nized around the world . . . [and are] critical to a faireconomy.”

For more information: www.nlrb.gov

tice of unlimited managementdiscretion, coupled with sexistpractices in pay and promo-tions. The abuses ranged fromlower pay for more-qualifiedwomen to no notices of man-agement openings, which thenarbitrarily awarded to men.

The women want back pay,punitive damages and a court

injunction and declaration thatWal-Mart’s practices are illegalWhile it’s the biggest privatecompany in the world, it’s notthe only one that practices suchdiscrimination. Two similarsuits against retailers are pend-ing in California.

Wal-Mart argues not just forone-by-one suits, but that fed-

eral court rules “ban monetaryrelief,” Catholic University lawprofessor Suzette Malvauxnoted. If the justices were toagree, class action cases over-all would become difficult ifnot impossible to bring.

The panel’s dissenter, cor-porate attorney Andrew Trask,admitted even a large money

judgment against Wal-Mart –the women are seeking $1 bil-lion covering all 1.6 millionover years of work at its stores– wouldn’t hurt Wal-Mart thatmuch.“It has 1 million employ-ees, $170 billion in assets and$384 billion in sales, so Wal-Mart can take care of itself.”

“The question is ‘Can youtake a rule for Betty Dukes,’”the present Wal-Mart greeterwho’s the lead plaintiff in thecase “and apply it to 1.6 mil-lion other people?” He con-tended the answer, under feder-al court rules on class actions,may well be “no.”

The fourth panelist, plain-tiffs’ class-action lawyer AdamKlein added that’s “called‘bridging the gap,’ and that’sthe issue the court will tackle.”

Back pay is critical to right-ing wrongs, Trask said, and theSupreme Court has said so.The question then becomes, headded, whether the pay request– the billion dollars – overshad-ows the injunction demand. Ifit does, he said, the suit fails.

It was Greenberger, howev-er, who had the last word. Thewriters of both the court’s classaction rules and federal civilrights laws had systemic dis-crimination and “systemicchange in mind,” Greenbergersaid. “In a civil rights case,when you’re dealing with thenature of discrimination, thatgoes far beyond the numbers,”or that case alone.

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the lie which the party imposed-- if all records told the sametale -- then the lie passed intohistory and became the truth."~ George Orwell, 1984 (pub-lished in 1949)

House Majority Leader EricCantor was in town (March 21specifically, at Stanford'sHoover Institute where hecould surround himself withsympathetic Republicans) totell this whopper: "Cutting thefederal deficit will createjobs."

It's not true. Cutting thedeficit will create fewer jobs.Less government spendingreduces overall demand. This isparticularly worrisome when,as now, consumers and busi-nesses are still holding back.Fewer government workershave paychecks to buy stufffrom other Americans, some ofwhom in turn will lose theirjobs without enough cus-tomers.

But truth doesn't seem tomatter. Republicans figure iftheir big lies are repeated oftenenough, people will start tobelieve them.

Unless, that is, those big liesare repudiated -- and big truthsare told in their place.

What worries me almost asmuch as the Republican'srepeated big lies about jobs isthe silence of President Obama

At least he’s honest when he liesDiscussing the future of Social Security, U.S. House Majority

Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) told an NPR radio interviewer lastweek, “We’re going to have to come to grips with the fact thatthese programs cannot exist if we want America to be what wewant America to be.”

Alliance for Retired Americans Executive Director Edward F.Coyle responded, “Eric Cantor and others are saying that SocialSecurity is to blame for our budget deficit. That’s pure fiction,and a sleight of hand that makes no mention of tax cuts for thewealthy or big corporations like GE that pay no taxes. It’s timeto stop the lies. It’s time to start telling current and future retireesthe truth. Thank you, Eric Cantor. Thank you for making it crys-tal clear just what the Republican Party thinks of Social Securityand the millions of Americans who count on it each month tomake ends meet.”

Last week Alliance members from around the country partic-ipated in a “call-in” day organized by the Social Security Workscampaign, producing over6,000 calls into U.S. Senateoffices, urging lawmakers tonot cut Social Security benefitsfor current and future retireesas the chamber prepares to con-sider legislation on federalspending.

March 28 Alliance mem-bers joined activists fromAmericans United for Change,Social Security Works, and theNational Committee toPreserve Social Security onCapitol Hill at a rally to supportSocial Security.

Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid (D-NV) hosted therally and re-affirmed his sup-port for the program. “Whatirritates me is we hear punditsand politicians take the baitthat's been thrown to them bythese Republicans over thoselast few decades. You throw itto them and they grab it. Theygrab it and claim SocialSecurity is headed for bank-ruptcy. It is not!”

and Democratic leaders in theface of them. Obama has thebully pulpit. Republicans don't.But if he doesn't use it theRepublican's big lies gain cred-ibility.

Here are some other whop-pers being repeated daily:

"Cutting taxes on the richcreates jobs." Nope. Trickle-down economics has been triedfor thirty years and hasn'tworked. After George W. Bushcut taxes on the rich, far fewerjobs were created than afterBill Clinton raised them in the1990s.

To his credit, PresidentObama argued againstRepublican demands forextending the Bush tax crediton those making more than aquarter million. But as soon asRepublicans pushed back hecaved. And the president hasn'teven mentioned that the $61billion Republicans aredemanding in budget cuts thisfiscal year is what richerAmericans would have paid intaxes had he not caved.

"Cutting corporate incometaxes creates jobs." Baloney.American corporations don'tneed tax cuts. They're sitting onover $1.5 trillion of cash rightnow. They won't invest it inadditional capacity or jobsbecause they don't see enoughcustomers out there withenough money in their pocketsto buy what the additional

capacity would produce.The president needs to point

this out -- not just inWashington but across thenation where Republican gov-ernors are slashing corporatetaxes and simultaneously cut-ting school budgets. PresidentObama says he wants to investin American skills, but manystates are doing the opposite.Florida Governor Rick Scott,for example, says his proposedcorporate tax cuts "will giveFlorida a competitive edge inattracting jobs." They'll alsorequire education spending bereduced by $3 billion. Floridaalready ranks near the bottomin per-pupil spending and hasone of nation's lowest gradua-tion rates. If Scott's tax cutscreate jobs, most will paypeanuts.

"Cuts in wages and bene-fits create jobs." Congression-al Republicans and their statecounterparts repeat this lieincessantly. It also lies behindcorporate America's incessantdemand for wage and benefitconcessions -- and corporateand state battles against unions.But it's dead wrong. Meagerwages and benefits are reduc-ing the spending power of tensof millions of American work-ers, which is prolonging thejobs recession.

President Obama andDemocratic leaders should bestanding up for the wages and

benefits of ordinaryAmericans, standing up forunions, and decrying the liethat wage and benefit conces-sions are necessary to createjobs. The president should betraveling to the Midwest -- tak-ing aim at Republican gover-nors in the heartland who arehell bent on destroying the pur-chasing power of Americanworkers. But he's doing noth-ing of the sort.

"Regulations kill jobs."Congressional Republicans areusing this whopper to justifytheir attempts to defund regula-tory agencies. Regulationswhose costs to business exceedtheir benefits to the public areunwarranted, of course, butreasonable regulation is neces-sary to avoid everything fromnuclear meltdowns to oil spillsto mine disasters to food con-tamination -- all of which

we've sadly witnessed. Hereagain, we're hearing little fromthe president or Democraticleaders.

Look, the president can't beeverywhere, doing everything.There's tumult in the MiddleEast, we're suddenly at war inLibya, Japan is struggling withthe aftermath of disaster, andsurely Latin America is animportant trading partner.

But nothing is more centralto average Americans than jobsand wages. Unless the presi-dent forcefully rebutsRepublican's big lies, they'llsoon become conventionalwisdom.

Former Secretary of LaborRobert Reich is the author ofAftershock: The Next Economyand America's Future, now inbookstores. This appeared atRobertReich.org. ©2011TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

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We Are One...from page 1cult to find a dry eye.Sara Thomsen and the Peace Choir

softened the mood with beautiful voices.In Virginia a march by 175 from the

courthouse ended at the Servicemen'sClub where the North East Area LaborCouncil and Iron Range Labor Assemblyheld an evening teach-in on state budgetfights.

The Blue Green Alliance, which has astrong presence from the USW, spokeabout their efforts to put people back towork in clean energy jobs.

Local leaders spoke about their con-tract fights on the Iron Range. Ironically,April 4 is also National Employee Benefits Day and mostemployees are fighting to hold on to what they have as businessowners have finally bought enough politicians to undermine thegains of the past for workers.

ed primarily from the NationalCompensation Survey, and inaccordance with standard sur-vey practice, focuses on year-round, full-time public and pri-vate-sector employees.

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• Minnesota public-sectorworkers are more highly edu-cated than private-sector work-ers; 60% of full-timeMinnesota public-sector work-ers hold at least a four-year col-lege degree, compared to 37%of full-time private-sectorworkers.

• Minnesota state and localgovernments and school dis-tricts pay college-educatedworkers on average 25% lessthan do private employers.

• College-educated public-sector workers earn consider-ably less than private-sectoremployees. On the other hand,the less than 1% of public-sec-tor workers without highschool diplomas tend to earnmore than their peers in the pri-vate sector because the publicsector sets a floor on earnings.

• In addition to having high-

er education levels, comparedto Minnesota private-sectoremployees, Minnesota stateand local government employ-ees on average are more expe-rienced (23.4 years comparedto 20.1 years).

The study makes clear thatpublic employees—like everyother American worker—havein fact been victims of theworst recession since the GreatDepression. In fact, severefinancial problems as a resultof the Great Recession haveforced state, county and munic-

ipal elected officials across thecountry to make massive cutsin spending. As a result, tens ofthousands of public-sectoremployees have been laid offand thousands more have beensubject to forced furloughs, payfreezes and cuts in benefits.

A similar study for Wiscon-sin public employees foundthat they were twice as likely tohave 4-year degrees as theirprivate sector counterparts butearned 14% less in pay, and 8%less when pensions and healthcare coverage were factored.

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When silent marchers arrived at the Civic Center Mondayevening they were greeted by Dr. King’s booming “moun-taintop” speech from the night before he was murdered in1968. A huge poster allowed them to sign in respect.

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