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		<title>New Guide Offers Advice for Women Seeking Green Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



 



If you’re a woman considering a career in the growing clean energy economy, check out this new online guide from the U.S. Department of Labor. &#8220;Why Green Is Your Color: A Woman&#8217;s Guide to a Sustainable Career&#8221; is designed ...]]></description>
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		<title>As Negotiations loom, Janitors From Across California March in LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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	This year, collective bargaining contracts covering 30,000 of SEIU-United Service Workers West&#039;s 40,000 members. This includes office janitors, security officers, and stadium, arena, airport and apartment workers.

	On April 30 the contracts for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Flashmob Strikes Verizon Wireless Store in DC’s Union Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across the JwJ network, union and community activists continue to escalate pressure on Verizon to do the right thing and negotiate a fair contract with members of the Communications Workers of America. Last August the contract expired for 45,000 worker...]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Workers’ Round-Up: AFA ‘OccuFLIES,’ Labor at CPAC, and Another Greek Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	Every weekend, Working In These Times&#160;highlights a few labor struggles and protests that contributors weren&#039;t able to cover during the preceding week.

	Flight Attendants &#8220;OccufFLY&#8221; LAX

	

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		<title>Nominate Your Health Care Reform Champion of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hall</dc:creator>
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The White House Champions of Change program wants to honor those people who have helped people in their communities take advantage of the Affordable Care Act’s growing benefits and those who have championed access to health care for everyon...]]></description>
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		<title>250,000 Sign Petition to Apple to End Slave Conditions at Its Suppliers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outraged at the inhumane treatment of workers in China who make iPads, iPhones and other Apple products, protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world yesterday to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at f...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama/Catholic Contraception Controversy Boils Down to Workers’ Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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	The great new religious battle over the proposed new federal rule requiring contraception coverage for women actually boils down to the basic precept that worker rights apply across all of society, including within religious institutions.&#160;But it...]]></description>
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		<title>Georgetown Panel Examines Wisconsin Uprising</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, thousands of Wisconsin workers filled the statehouse and streets of Madison protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) attack on their collective bargaining rights. The battle reverberated beyond the borders of Wisconsin, triggering a nationwide ...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMPORTANT: This material is related to legislation and internal union activity. You MAY copy this using union funds or using union equipment, when not on duty or not on official time. It may be distributed during lunch and learns, and other union events, held when employees and officers are not on work time, and not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afgeunionblog.wordpress.com&#38;blog=14839867&#38;post=1902&#38;subd=afgeunionblog&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walker’s Attack on Wisconsin Values Anything But Progressive</title>
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 Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane this week wrote a column claiming Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is a &#8220;progressive.&#8221; This response from Wisconsin State Employees Union/AFSCME Council 24&#160;Pres. Paulette Feld tells the truth ...]]></description>
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