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Cindy
Martinez
President
P.O.
Box 3096
McAllen,
TX 78502
Office:956-686-0022
Fax:
956-618-1281
Cell:
956-457-6675
tpwu_president@yahoo.com
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National Convention
APWU PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOPS
This year workshops will
be held before the convention convenes. Twenty-one workshops will be
offered on Friday, Aug. 17, the day prior to the craft meetings,
from 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404
S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA.
Participants must register
online. Additional information will be appear in the March/April of
the APWU Magazine and will be available online soon.
Thanking you in advance
for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Joyce
B. Robinson, Director
Research
& Education Department
American
Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
1300
L. Street, NW
Washington,
DC 20005
Phone
Number: (202) 842-4225
FAX
Number: (202) 216-2606
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2012
TPWU Educational Conference
June
21-23, 2012
Shilo
Inn Suites Hotel
3701
South W.S. Young
Killeen,
Texas 76542
(254)
699-0999
Only
120 Rooms Available
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America
Rights at Work - TODAY'S MUST READS
State
of the Union: A Call for Unity, in a Political Package
James Poniewozik
TIME
January 25, 2012
One of the running narratives of Barack Obama’s administration has
been how much it should mirror, or avoid, the acts of the last
Democratic administration, Bill Clinton’s. In his State of the Union
address last night, at least, Barack Obama became a Clintonian, at
least in style. Like Clinton’s SOTU speeches, Obama’s was long
(just over an hour) and organized less around a grand narrative than a
point-by-point list of priorities, from taxes to immigration to
education, and much more. When Clinton gave these speeches, they
tended to get criticized by reviewers as “laundry lists”; voters
and home viewers responded to them much better than pundits in
polling.
Democrats
Flee an Indiana Vote on Union Bill
MONICA DAVEY
The New York Times
January 24, 2012
With Republican-controlled Indiana on the verge of becoming a “right
to work” state, Democrats in the State House on Tuesday took the
only step they have left to prevent it, if only for a bit longer. They
disappeared. Again. A final vote on the measure, which would ban union
contracts from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for
representation, had been expected on Tuesday in the House, which
Republicans dominate 60 to 40. But with scores of union members and
supporters filling the Statehouse halls in Indianapolis in protest,
most Democrats refused to turn up for floor sessions — not once but
twice on Tuesday afternoon.
ANTI-UNION NETWORK
Super
PAC says it's leveling playing field; unions disagree
Jessica Yellin
CNN
January 24, 2012
Are American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS comparable to labor unions
and MoveOn.org? Democratic activists scoff at the question. But Steven
Law, Crossroads' CEO, says yes. "American Crossroads was
conceived as an answer to the hundreds of millions of dollars that
unions and MoveOn.org and other groups on the left have been spending
for years to support Democrats," Law said.
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW/NLRB
Senate
Republicans Won't Sue Over Obama Recess Appointments -Aide
Corey Boles
Wall Street Journal
January 24, 2012
Senate Republicans won't launch a direct legal challenge to the White
House's contentious move to use recess appointments to install senior
officials at a new consumer financial agency and the National Labor
Relations Board, a senior GOP leadership aide said. Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will confirm the decision in a
television interview later Tuesday, the aide said.
Cab
company to appeal labor board order
Tim O'Reiley
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
January 24, 2012
Lucky Cab Co. said it will appeal a National Labor Relations Board
judge's order that it hold a new union election after improper conduct
tainted one last year. On Dec. 28, administrative law judge Lana Parke
ruled that the company had interfered with a May 6 election pushed by
the Industrial, Technical and Professional Employees Union Local 4873.
Specifically, she decided that the company had fired six drivers for
their union organizing activities, providing the grounds for the judge
to overturn the union loss.
Hospital
Unlawfully Barred RNs From Wearing Union Ribbons in Patient Areas,
NLRB Finds
Michelle Amber
BNA
January 23, 2012
Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., unlawfully
prohibited registered nurses from wearing union ribbons in immediate
patient care areas during a union organizing drive, a divided National
Labor Relations Board ruled Dec. 30 (Saint John's Health Ctr., 357
N.L.R.B. No. 170, 12/30/11 [released 1/5/12]). In a 2-1 ruling,
Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce and Member Craig Becker said that the
hospital banned the ribbon saying, “Saint John's RNs for Safe
Patient Care,” while allowing nurses to wear a hospital-endorsed
ribbon, stating “Saint John's mission is patient safe care.”
PENSIONS
Workers
at religious institutions fear future of pensions
Tom Haydon
Washington Post
January 25, 2012
Sue Fritz tended to the sick for more than two decades as a nurse at
St. Peter’s University Hospital. By the time she left for another
job in 1999, she was vested in the hospital’s federally insured
pension program — confident her earned pension of $20,000 or more a
year would be there for her when she eventually retired.
POLITICS
Republican
rebuttal to State of the Union: Mitch Daniels slams Obama as
‘pro-poverty’
DAVID CATANESE
Politico
January 24, 2012
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered a pointed and pugnacious response
to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday
night, in a speech likely to amplify the drumbeat of voices urging
Daniels to wage a late presidential bid. The term-limited Daniels, who
ruled out a White House run last year, slammed Obama for promoting
“pro-poverty” extremism and leading a “constant effort to divide
us.”
Unions
Spending Millions To Hit Mitt Romney — Not Newt Gingrich
Sean Higgins
Investor's Business Daily
January 24, 2012
Big Labor is trying to kneecap Mitt Romney before the Florida primary
in the apparent hope that they can shift the Republican nomination to
another GOP candidate. Earlier today the Service Employees
International Union announced it was making a major “six-figure”
radio ad buy in Florida to run attacks against Romney. The buy is
being coordinated with the pro-Democratic “SuperPAC” Priorities
USA Action.
Walker
raises millions to fight recall effort
Jason Stein and Patrick Marley
Journal Sentinel
January 23, 2012
Gov. Scott Walker is raking in money at a pace not seen before in
Wisconsin politics as he prepares to face the state's first-ever
gubernatorial recall, taking in more than $4.5 million over five
weeks. In just over a year, Walker has raised more than $12 million in
campaign donations - more than he spent to win the seat in 2010 - and
despite sizable spending in recent weeks still has $2.6 million in
cash in the bank, according to figures released Monday by his
campaign. The Republican governor has traveled the country to raise
money in recent weeks and has benefited from a quirk in the state's
election law that allows elected officials facing recalls to raise
unlimited amounts.
RIGHT TO WORK
Indiana
Moves Closer To Right-to-Work Law
Jack Nicas
Wall Street Journal
January 25, 2012
The leader of the Indiana House Democrats, Rep. Patrick Bauer,
conceded Tuesday that his party faces dwindling options to block
passage of what would be the nation's first right-to-work law in a
decade, meaning the legislation is likely to be adopted eventually.
The House Democrats sat out for at least the eighth day in three weeks
on Tuesday, a day after the House Republicans voted down Democrats'
amendment for a statewide referendum on the bill.
Indiana
House Dems lose right-to-work referendum vote, possibly resume boycott
in labor battle
TOM LoBIANCO
Associated Press
January 24, 2012
While Indiana House Republicans were bracing for another possible
Democratic boycott in the bruising right-to-work battle, Senate
Republicans on Monday were cheering the final passage of the measure
in their chamber just a few hundred feet away. Senate Republicans had
little trouble sending the divisive labor measure to the House. But
later Monday evening House Democrats left the House floor after losing
a series of party-line votes to Republicans, including a plan to put
right-to-work on the ballot in November.
SC
House Republicans, Gov Want Stricter Union Laws
WSPA
January 24, 2012
Gov. Nikki Haley and State Rep. Bill Sandifer announced a bill to
tighten South Carolina’s Right to Work laws Tuesday. The Oconee
Republican's bill, co-sponsored by all 76 House Republicans, aims to
fix loopholes to make sure employers cannot discriminate based on
whether someone is or isn’t in a labor union, and that workers can
quit a union at any time.
Group
resubmits Ohio 'right-to-work' measure
Associated Press
January 23, 2012
An Ohio group has resubmitted paperwork to state officials in its
effort to push a ballot initiative that would keep workers who are
covered by labor contracts from having to join a union or pay union
dues. The group's lawyer, Maurice Thompson, says Ohioans for Workplace
Freedom refiled a new summary of its right-to-work amendment on
Monday. Attorney General Mike DeWine has to clear the summary from the
coalition of tea party groups and others before they can start
collecting the roughly 386,000 valid signatures needed to get it on
the ballot this year.
TEACHERS
Teachers
Union Bashes Bloomberg in TV Ad
Lisa Fleisher
Wall Street Journal
January 24, 2012
In the fight to define Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s legacy, the
teachers union is pitching him to New Yorkers as the education mayor
— who failed. The United Federation of Teachers launched a
television ad Tuesday that slams the mayor’s schools legacy in stark
terms, charging that Bloomberg “still doesn’t get it” after 10
years in office. The ad flashes negative headlines about Bloomberg’s
policies and missteps, leading off with two words that seem to need no
further explanation: “Cathie Black.”
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