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May 11, 2012

Only half of those who graduated college between 2006 and 2011 have full-time jobs, says a new study. Find out more here.

Help “Stamp Out Hunger” Saturday by joining the Letter Carriers’ 20th annual food drive—the largest one-day food drive in the nation. Collect canned goods and dry food and leave them in a bag or box by your mailbox. Your letter carriers will pick them up as they deliver your mail. Read more and comment. 

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 Romney says Obama ‘Takes His Marching Orders’ from Unions

 Corporate Research Course Set for June 10–15

Labor, Politics and Brazil’s Transformation

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Thanks, Frank and Marcy!

 

Dear UCubed Leader:
Want to thank someone on Capitol Hill?

How about Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who introduced S.1517, the 21st Century Works Progress Administration (WPA) Act? Or Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), John Reed (D-RI),  Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mark Begich (D-AK) who cosponsored S. 1517?

Lautenberg's WPA 2.0 authorizes $250 billion to employ individuals who have been unemployed longer than 60 days. Workers would be hired to work a host of public works projects, including residential and commercial building weatherization; highway, bridge and rail repairs; school, library and firehouse construction; and manufacturing projects. The program would be paid for through an excise tax on millionaires of 5.4 percent.

Or maybe Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)?

Last year Congresswoman Kaptur introduced the 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act, H.R. 494. Her bill has 30 cosponsors. The $16 billion proposal envisions a renewed emphasis on putting unemployed and underemployed Americans to work immediately planting trees, ending erosion, preventing forest fires and massive flooding and improving rural communities. The bill also calls for more housing, medical and transportation assistance.

Notably both Tom Harkin and Marcy Kaptur are the senior Democrats on their respective chamber's Appropriations Committee. There they have been fighting for food stamps, unemployment benefits, Medicaid and job training -- all key programs for the jobless.

How Congress will spend $3.5 to $4.0 trillion during the next fiscal year? Well, I can't think of a better way than shoe-horning the concepts contained in S. 1517 and H.R. 494 into one of those must-pass appropriations bills.

Click here to send a letter to Congress urging their support of the 21st Century WPA Act. And click here to urge their support of the 21st Century CCC Act.

To have an immediate impact on those bills' prospects, THANK the Senators and Members of Congress who are sponsoring and cosponsoring them.  After all, UCubed has been advocating for these measures for the last three years.

And THANK them publicly! Start by clicking here.

In Unity -- Strength,

Rick

Rick Sloan
Executive Director
Ur Union of Unemployed

 

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updated 5/11/2012

Time is running out - get your tickets today!

The Indiana AFL-CIO invites you to the 2012 Labor Luncheon

Featuring…

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

Please join working men and women from across the state for a special fundraising luncheon benefiting the Indiana AFL-CIO featuring Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a true champion of working people everywhere.

2012 Labor Luncheon
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Scottish Rite Center
431 West Berry Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

*Held in conjunction with the Indiana Democratic Party's 2012 State Convention

Sponsor Table: $1000
(includes 8 tickets, 8 meals, prime seating, billing at event)

Individual Ticket: $50 (meal included, open seating)

Click here to order tickets

NOTE: All proceeds will go to support the Indiana AFL-CIO's political education programs

About Senator Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

The Almanac of American Politics has called Sanders a "practical" and "successful legislator." He has focused on the shrinking middle class and widening income gap in America that is greater than at any time since the Great Depression. Other priorities include reversing global warming, universal health care, fair trade policies, supporting veterans and preserving family farms. He serves on five Senate committees: Budget; Veterans; Energy; Environment; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

 

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Who are your state legislators looking out for-you or big corporations?

Our rights are under attack, even as corporate personhood and "Citizens United" are giving corporations more and more power.

Across the country, corporate-funded lawmakers are pushing restrictions on the right to vote through voter ID laws. That hurts all of us-especially the most vulnerable, like seniors and students. And it only enhances big corporations' ability to buy elections.

Click here to send these two critical questions to your legislator.

When you hear back, tell us their answer. We want to get these politicians on the record.

With corporate power in politics growing and the right to vote under attack, we need to demand that our elected officials speak up. Help us get your state legislator on the record on two simple questions:

1. Are corporations people?
2. Will you protect my right to vote against corporate interference?

They represent you, and they need to hear from you. Let them know that you want them to fight for your rights-not for a corporate agenda that hurts democracy.

Click here to send these two critical questions to your legislator.

 

 

Does Your State Legislator Think Corporations are People?

Big corporations think they matter more than you do. From the Citizens United decision to "corporate personhood" they are grabbing more power-at the cost of citizen power. Across the country, corporate-funded state legislators are rushing to push through bills that would limit your right to vote.

Voter ID bills and other voting restrictions are a major project of ALEC, a corporate front group that writes legislation for state lawmakers to introduce. And what every one of these bills has in common is that they increase the power of corporations and big money by eroding the right to vote for the rest of us.

Enough is enough. Tell our state legislators that it's us they need to be looking out for-not corporations.

Who do your state legislators work for? Ask your state legislator these two simple questions to get their answer on the record:

1. Are corporations people?
2. Will you protect my right to vote from corporate interference?

Click here to send these two critical questions to your legislator.

When you hear back, tell us their answer. We're going to compile a list of who's on the side of the 99%, and who thinks corporations outrank people.

These aren't hard questions. Corporations aren't people, and our right to vote needs to be protected from corporate influence.

You know the right answers to these questions.... Find out if your state legislator does!

In solidarity,

Christian Norton
Communications Director
Working America

 

RECIPIES OF THE MONTH

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updated 5/11/2012

Let us review what has happened so far:

The Daniels Administration “found” $320 million in corporate tax revenues that had been “lost.”

Then, thanks to an accounting mistake, the administration shortchanged local units of government $206 million in local option income tax revenue.

That’s $526 million of your tax dollars that have been mismanaged by an administration that likes to brag about its management of state government.

After weeks of stalling, the administration and Republican leaders in the Indiana House and Senate have agreed to Democratic calls for an independent audit of the state’s books. That should be getting started in the next few weeks.

And none too soon. Recent events have revealed even more problems:

• The Indiana State Auditor has admitted his office made a mistake in distributing hundreds of thousands of dollars in auto excise tax revenues to counties in April. Some got too much, and others didn’t get enough.

• The Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) over-collected millions of dollars in payroll taxes from businesses across this state. Payroll taxes are the way that companies help pay for unemployment compensation for out-of-work Hoosiers.

In the case of the auto excise taxes, our state auditor has admitted the error and apologized for it.

DWD isn’t as forgiving. According to a recent report from an Indianapolis TV station, which can be accessed here...

The state agency isn’t going to tell any business owners if they have overpaid their payroll taxes. If you want to know, you’ll have to call them yourself. Try 1-800-437-9136 to find out more.

State government is supposed to work for you, not the other way around. But this type of arrogance has been typical for an administration that prefers you ignore that they have messed around with your tax dollars.

This is why we need an independent audit of the state’s coffers. This kind of conduct should not be passed off.

Because $526 million is a lot of your tax money.

It could have paid for the salaries of 16,000 new teachers. Or 10,000 new case workers to protect our children. Or put more than 14,000 Hoosiers to work making a decent living wage. Or given over 15,000 students a scholarship for a four-year degree. Or fully funded full-day kindergarten for more than five years. Or given every household in our state a $200 refund.

How many more mistakes will be found? How much longer will the people of Indiana be asked to tolerate this kind of incompetence from the Daniels Administration?

 

 

 

America is under attack!  From Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio to every worker in every state, government is attempting to beat down with a heavy fist collective bargaining rights.  Not a willing denial, but a downright callous refusal to accept their employees' protected and concerted right to effectively bargain.

Stand with us in this fight to protect collective bargaining rights!  Visit this section often for news updates, video, action alerts and more.

 

TIRED OF WORKING AND GETTING NOWHERE?

The IAM is a  powerful union and your employer knows it.  Why not take the opportunity to look out for your best interests. That’s why people just like you have chosen to join the IAM. All they wanted was a union contract that guarantees the wages, benefits and working conditions they deserve. If you are interested in having a real voice on the job give us a call.

 

CALL 1-800-445-5780 and contact our Organizing Department.

 

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