School cuts may affect student performance | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

After draining its savings this year, Florida faces doubly difficult choices next year because of a tax structure that depends on population growth.

Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka at Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, "Building a Green Collar Movement: Labor and the Environment"

Machinists Union Local Lodge 2061: Houston We Have A Message

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Court Upholds OSHA’s Power to Protect Workers

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Immokalee Freedom March Challenges Publix to Do the Right Thing

NASA plans to swap the shuttle program's two final missions, which means the last orbiter won't fly until November -- two months later than originally planned.

Democrats Haunted by Corporate Ties | CommonDreams.org
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promising a climactic clash with Wall Street, but there's a complication in their battle plan: The Democratic Party is closer to corporate America - and to Wall Street in particular - than many Democrats would care to admit

North Carolina Democrats' votes against health care push labor to form party
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A political rebellion is brewing inside an old funeral home near the state Capitol here. Frustrated liberals and labor organizers are taking aim at the Democratic Party, rushing to gather enough signatures to start a third party that they believe could help oust three Democratic congressmen.

A preventable epidemic: Latino deaths in the workplace | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Every day in this country, 14 workers lose their lives in preventable workplace tragedies. That adds up to 5,000 people who lose their lives on the job every year. Some people say it's just a fact of life and some jobs are dangerous. But this is the 21st century, and no worker should have to lose his or her life for a paycheck

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | We’re Still Mourning the Dead and Fighting for the Living
A century ago, many immigrant coal miners worked long hours at low pay in jobs that threatened their lives and limbs.
George F. Baer didn’t care. As he said:
“They don’t suffer. Why, they can’t even speak English.”

t r u t h o u t | Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
Tampa, Florida - Chanting "No more slaves! Pay a living wage!", hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes

New program to help homeless veterans find housing in Somers Point, Tuckerton - pressofAtlanticCity.com
Community Quest Inc., of Egg Harbor Township, plans to turn the Atlantis Apartments in Somers Point into housing for veterans.
“I didn’t know where to go,” George Benner said. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Benner, a Navy veteran of Vietnam, was doing everything he could to try to keep his house on Jefferson Court in Somers Point. But after being laid off from his longtime casino job following a car accident, he was forced to declare bankruptcy in the fall.

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Limbaugh Lies About Big Branch Mine: No, Rush, It Wasn’t Union
It was Sen. Al Franken (D- Minn.) in his previous incarnation as an author and comedian who called Rush Limbaugh “A big fat liar.” Well, others can address the first part, but Limbaugh himself has again offered solid evidence about the liar part.

Show Upcoming Events...Space Coast AFL-CIO
Monday 12 April-Saturday, April 17
Take Action: Don't Let Banks Kill Financial Reform
Type: Causes - Protest
Where: Your e-mail
When: Saturday, April 10 at 3:30 pm until
Saturday, April 17 at 6:30 pm

Tell Governor Crist to veto SB 6!
Type: Causes - Protest
Where: E-mail petition
When: Saturday, April 10 at 3:45 pm until
Saturday, April 17 at 6:45 pm

Tomorrow, April 13
Sign Waving Osceola Classroom Teachers Association
Where: Bill Beck Blvd / 192
When: Tomorrow from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Wednesday, April 14
Sign Waving Veto SB6
Type: Causes - Rally
Where: RT 520& Courtney Merritt Island FL
When: Wednesday, April 14 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Friday, April 16
Farmworkers Freedom March
Type: Causes - Rally
Where: Tampa Fl
When: Friday, April 16 at 7:45 am until
Sunday, April 18 at 6:00 pm

Saturday, April 17
APRI 9th Annual Memorial Banquet
Where: Cocoa Beach Hilton, Cocoa Beach Fl
When: Saturday, April 17 from 6:45 pm to 9:45 pm
For more information of events please go to Space Coast AFL-CIO


Good Jobs Now!
Join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Tuesday at noon for a live online video discussion of the 2010 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch report and learn more about Wall Street bankers, their outrageous pay and massive lobbying efforts

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission | Home
To examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current
financial and economic crisis in the United States.

Tea parties attempt to turn the page.
The battle for health care reform brought out both the best and the worst in the tea party movement, according to activists

Take Action: Don't Let Banks Kill Financial Reform
The U.S. Senate is working on new financial regulations right now as part of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.

A False Tax Attack | FactCheck.org
A Democratic ad claims a GOP House candidate pledged to protect breaks for sending jobs abroad. He didn't.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation
240,000 teachers. 32 kids per class. What happens if all the teachers call in sick on the same day?

PolitiFact | Statements wsay are Pants on Firee !
Statements we say are Pants on Fire!

PolitiFact | Your guide to the cap-and-trade estimates
With Congress considering a sweeping cap-and-trade bill to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, there have been a perplexing array of cost estimates

As rescue efforts continue, safety history of Upper Big Branch mine and Massey troubling | United Mine Workers of America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRIANGLE, VA – As rescue efforts continue at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh Co., W. Va., the safety history at that mine and of Massey Energy overall is “troubling and demands a tough investigation” moving forward, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts said today

Events 8 April 2010

Rally in support of education
Deland,Fl 8 April

Space forum
BCC Cocoa Fl April 9

Rally for Sky Chef OIA
Orlando,FL April 9

Public Rally for Education:
Palm Bay Fl Friday, April 9 at 4:30pm

Activist Training
Daytona Beach Fl April 10

SaveSpace Community Rally
Cocoa Fl, April 11

Sign Waving Osceola Classroom...
Osceola Cty Fl April 13

APRI 9th Annual Memorial Banquet
Cocoa Beach Fl April 17

Farmworkers Freedom March
Tampa Fl April 16

John Kelly: Caveats on space plan can't be ignored

The Chicago school reform fraud

Cracking the Code

Massachusetts and Rhode Island Compete Over Wind Farm

Top Fed Official Wants To Break Up Megabanks, Stop The Fed From Guaranteeing Wall Street's Profits

Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say
Why the right wanted to destroy ACORN

Posey is a sleeper?

Why Florida sued Washington over health care law - St. Petersburg Times
Last week, Florida and a dozen other states asked the federal courts to measure the new health care law against the Constitution's requirements. In the simplest of terms, this new law is an unprecedented and unconstitutional expansion of federal power that will cost Florida taxpayers billions of dollars.

Chamber to spend 50m on anti-health care reform campaign
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will spend $50 million on an election campaign around bashing health care reform that the Wall Street Journal called "an aggressive strategy to blunt the impact of the new law."

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG Coburn Can’t Take the Heat, Tries to Deflect Blame for Killing Jobless Aid
Back home in Oklahoma, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn must really be feeling the heat from some of the millions of America’s jobless worked he shafted last week. Coburn, who blocked a short-term extension for unemployment insurance (UI), issued a press release making it look as though Senate Democrats blocked the extension and he was a helpless victim of the vote