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September 3 CWA president Larry Cohen and Mike Podhorzer, deputy director of the AFL-CIO's political department, talk about the Obama phenomenon and the labor movement's effort to educate and mobilize voters for the November election.

September10 Mike Wishnie and David Bacon discuss the recent immigration raids on businesses and home and the ramifications of these actions. WIshnie is Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Bacon is a reporter and photojournalist who covers labor and immigration for various publications.

September 17 Jane Latour, author of Sisters in the Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City. Oral histories with 20 plus women who struggled with their bosses, their co-workers, and their unions to win their place in the trades and the Fire Department.


Calendar

Next general membership meeting: The next Local 1180 general membership meeting takes place on Wednesday, September, 17 at 6 p.m., at the Local 1180 office, lower level (enter at 97 Hudson St.) All members are encouraged to come! Items on the agenda include: Labor 2008; Real Rent Reform Campaign Protest, 10/1/08; and NYC contract bargaining survey

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Use your brain or someone will use it for you.
Reuben Blades, "The Calm Before the Storm


 

 What's Hot?

 

Observing Obama

McCain Watch and Palin. too

Women's issues (and men's, too)

Articles about the economy articles of information about today's economy. (Articles added frequently)

Watching Walmart Information and stories about the world's largest retailer.

Is it a gripe or a grievance? When and how and why to file a grievance.

 

Sound Off! Sound Off!
What part will race play in the coming presidential campaign?

 

2008 Labor Day Parade
Saturday, September 6
11:30 AM at 47th Street west of 5th Ave
T-shirts, sandwiches, drinks.
call
Lenora Smith
at
212-331-0959

Join
the
1 Million Member Mobilization for theEmployee Free Choice Act

Registration
for the Fall 2008

Workplace Training Program is now open.

 

 

New Committee The 1180 Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Committee will meet on Thursday, September 18 at 6 PM.

The 1180 Hispanic Committee wants you

Join the Committee on Arts, Events, and Entertainment

CWE Upcoming Admissions Workshops

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 Cost of the War in Iraq
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