The Case for Working With Your Hands http://tiny.cc/workhand
The television show “Deadliest Catch” depicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, “Dirty Jobs,” shows all kinds of grueling work; one episode featured a guy who inseminates turkeys for a living.
Should Employers Be Required To Give Paid Sick Days? http://tiny.cc/sickdays
Is paid sick leave unhealthy for small businesses?
Take Action Organizing for America Event Canaveral Groves Health Care Event http://tiny.cc/obamaevent
Time: Saturday, June 6 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Host: Jo Shim Contact Phone: 321-636-4493 Location: 4010 Dakota Ave. (Cocoa, FL) Cocoa, FL 32926
Join OFA at Health Care Organizing Events http://tiny.cc/healthcareevent
Real health care reform: It's happening and it's happening now. Find an Organizing for America Health Care Kickoff Event near you:
Make or break time for health reform: Obama http://tiny.cc/healthcarereform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stepped up efforts to build public support for a broad revamp of U.S. healthcare on Tuesday, saying the country could no longer afford the soaring costs of the current system that leaves millions without medical coverage
Is Employee Free Choice dead? http://tiny.cc/EFCAdead
THE FIGHT for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears to be stumbling, with Corporate America increasingly confident that it will defeat the most "controversial" parts of the pro-union legislation.
Chinese Company Buying G.M.’s Hummer Brand http://tiny.cc/Chinahummer
General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a carmaker.
Newspapers want U.S. help, not bailout http://tiny.cc/newsbail
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many U.S. companies consider lobbying the government just another cost of doing business. When newspapers want help from Uncle Sam, the cost could be their reputation
Budget cuts shrink size of summer school http://tiny.cc/budgetedu
Summer school begins today, but only a small number of students will benefit from the extra help this year tags education,budget
Is Slam in Danger of Going Soft? http://tiny.cc/slampoem
CHICAGO — Slam poetry was invited into the White House last month and it is also the focus of the recent HBO documentary series “Brave New Voices.” So you might think that the originator of the poetry slam, a raucous live competition that is more likely to take place in a bar than in a bookstore, would be feeling rather pleased these days.
Is a $9 Flight Too Good to Be True? http://tiny.cc/9dolflight
How does a $9 flight sound to you? Sounds good to me, too -- and starting July 13 -- when JetAmerica takes off, every one of its flights will have nine seats for $9. Tags,airlines, travel

News for March 28 2009

Economic Blackmail
Corporate opponents of workers’ freedom to form unions repeatedly have shown they are not interested in the welfare of their employees or any of the pseudo-lofty ideals they cite while fighting the Employee Free Choice Act http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/03/27/economic-terrorism/

Bank CEOs voice support for Obama's economic plans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won support from top bankers on Friday for his efforts to rid financial institutions of bad debts, but differences remained over broader U.S. plans for the financial industry. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2651410320090327?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Pun for the Ages
THE inglorious pun! Dryden called it the "lowest and most groveling kind of wit." To Ambrose Bierce it was a "form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire." Universal experience confirms the adage that puns don’t make us laugh, but groan. It is said that Caligula ordered an actor to be roasted alive for a bad pun. (Some believe he was inclined to extremes.)http://http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28Tartakovsky.html?th&emc=th

U.S. Expected to Give More Money to Automakers
DETROIT — The Obama administration will probably extend more short-term aid to General Motors and Chrysler on Monday, but will impose a strict deadline for bondholders and union workers to make concessions that would help the ailing automakers become viable businesses and avert bankruptcy http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/economy/28auto.html?th&emc=th

High-Minded Budget Goals Yield to Reality
WASHINGTON — When President Obama unveiled his spending plan last month, he loudly proclaimed a return to honest budgeting and called for elimination of the cute fiscal acrobatics that the government had used for years to avoid facing up to cold truths. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/politics/28memo.html?th&emc=th

Higher Education Gone Wrong: Universities Are Turning into Corporate Drone Factories
Unless we take hold of the reigns we will be cursed with a more ruthless form of corporate power wielded through naked repression. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/133446/higher_education_gone_wrong%3A_universities_are_turning_into_corporate_drone_factories/

100 Historians Sign On to Support Employee Free Choice Act
Some of the nation’s top historians have signed a petition asking Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and protect the freedom to form unions and bargain. http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/03/24/100-historians-sign-on-to-support-employee-free-choice-act/

Taxing Health Care Benefits: An All-Around Bad Idea
There’s noise now in Washington that policy makers are considering paying for health care reform, in part, by taxing health care benefits workers receive through employer-provided health coverage. Such an ill-conceived plan not only represents a big a tax hike for workers and their employers, but carries serious and hidden costs, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/03/24/taxing-health-care-benefits-an-all-around-bad-idea/

Obama's Prime Time Pitch
Some exaggerations and misstatements from his evening news conference. Summary President Obama sometimes strayed from the facts or made dubious claims during his hour-long evening news conference March 24
http://www.factcheck.org/politics/obamas_prime_time_pitch.html