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• NLRB orders Stella D'Oro to take back striking working
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• Social Security is safe
• Single payer and the U.S. Senate
• Wanda Sykes at the White House correspondents dinner
• Obama apppoints labor people to NLRB
• Business attacks EFCA
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• Text of Obama Inaugural Address
• President Obama wants you to join a union
• SCA ratifies contract
• Today (1/30/09) at the White House
• Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
• Union membership up sharply in 2008
• Labor applauds new NLRB head
• Obama inauguration and speech
• Text of Obama acceptance speech
• Firing the porcupine
• Higher taxes for the rich in NY?
• Michelle Obama speaks to DNC LGBT delegates
• Barack Obama acceptance speech
• Unions say DCAS job plan takes merit out of system
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• Wanda Sykes on the bailout (video)
• The Job ( a video with a point)
• NYS AFL-CIO endorses Single Payer health care - HR 676
  
• Free tuition at CUNY for veterans
• George Carlin nails it (strong language video)

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General Membership Meeting

The next Local 1180 general membership meeting takes place on TO BE ANNOUNCED at 6 p.m. at Local 32 BJ, 101 Avenue of the Americas (one block above Canal Street).

Upcoming membership meeting dates:To be announced.No membership meetings in June, July, or August.

Communiqué radio show
Wednesdays at 1:00 PM on WNYE, 91.5 FM.
July 8: Replay of interview with NYS Commissioner of Labor Patricia Smith. Smith will be joining the Obama administration as Solicitor of the Department of Labor.

Thought for the Week
If you want something to get done, ask someone who's too busy to do it. Abby Hoffman

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