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		<title>Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown</title>
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	WASHINGTON, D.C.&#8211;A partisan political standoff in the U.S. Senate threatens to close down the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in August, further eroding workers&#8217; rights and weakening the ability of unions to organize new members, ac...]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Franken Shares SEIU Story at Senate Hearing on NLRB Nominations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a Senate HELP Committee hearing on nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLBR) yesterday, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) shared the story of Susie Stetler, a former SEIU member. Watch Senator Franken tell Susie's story: More on Susie's story:...]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Signs from House on Commonsense Immigration Reform</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC - Amid reports that the bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives has reached a tentative deal to move forward on immigration reform, Eliseo Medina, International Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the...]]></description>
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		<title>Stewart Acuff to Speak at Saturday Rally to Commemorate 1937 Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stewart Acuff Tomorrow I will speak at a rally in Chicago to commemorate the Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 when 10 striking members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) were shot down by the Chicago Police Department, because they were on strike for the 8 hour day and the right to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingunion.wordpress.com&#38;blog=2430503&#38;post=19458&#38;subd=talkingunion&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Homeland Security: Stop persecuting our families</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, hundreds of protesters are gathering in San Diego to protest on behalf of 550 janitors who stand to lose their jobs due to a Department of Homeland Security I-9 audit.  The protesters' ask is simple: Stop persecuting these families until Congress gets it's job done.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Decades of Immigration Policy &#8211; Washington Post video series</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did we get to where we are now? That's the central question posed by a Washington Post four-part video series on immigration reform. The series examines immigration policy over the past four decades and prominently features SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer...]]></description>
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		<title>SEIU: DHS Should Halt Enforcement of San Diego I-9 Audit Until Congress Passes Immigration Reform</title>
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		<title>Nation&#8217;s Largest Union of Immigrants Strengthens Voice of AAPI Workers in Highest Governing Body</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AAPI Officers Luisa Blue and Courtni Pugh Sworn in as SEIU International Executive Board Members Washington, DC - Today at the May meeting of the International Executive Board (IEB) of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), SEIU President Mary Kay...]]></description>
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		<title>The Upside Down Economy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Harold Meyerson One aspect that defines our current economy is that things are happening that shouldn’t be happening. I don’t mean that things are happening that are illegal or immoral. (Well, some of them are immoral, but that’s not what I mean.) Rather, things are happening that defy economic logic—a slippery term that really [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingunion.wordpress.com&#38;blog=2430503&#38;post=19374&#38;subd=talkingunion&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- From now on, the Kanawha County superintendent will have to sign off on all assemblies about sex, religion or politics. 

School board members passed the measure Wednesday by a 3-2 vote. Those in support said recent events show the...]]></description>
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