Teamsters in Action, a set on Flickr.
Teamsters outside the Los Angeles Times Production Facility called the Olympic Plant. Join us today from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at 2000 East 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90021
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Port of Los Angeles Truckers Organizing
Inspired by Toll victory, 2nd group of port drivers ready to join Teamsters
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| Ready to fight for their union: Port truck drivers at American Logistics International. |
The drivers were inspired to action by the amazing first contract won late last year by fellow port drivers, Teamster members who work for the Australian multinational Toll Group. Now, more of the thousands of port workers at LA/Long Beach are gearing up to fight for their union.
Teamsters International Vice President Fred Potter said word had spread quickly around the port about the Teamsters' first contract with Toll. Potter, who is also head of the Teamsters Port division, said his phone was ringing off the hook after the contract was signed. Workers, he said, finally believed they had the power to improve their lives.
The Toll contract was the first union contract signed by port drivers since trucking was deregulated in 1980.
The contract gives Toll drivers a $6-an-hour raise and, for the first time, a pension, affordable health care, job security and clean restrooms. They are now eager to go out and tell other port workers, 'You can do this, too,' Potter said.
American Logistics International is based in Carson, Calif.
SOURCE: Teamster Nation
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Cinnamon and Honey Cures
By Danita Clark
Drug companies won't like this one getting around. Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mix of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also note honey as very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without side effects which is also a plus.Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, when it is taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm even diabetic patients. Researched by western scientists:
HEART DISEASES: Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, put it on toast instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol and could potentially save one from heart attack. Also, even if you have already had an attack studies show you could be kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of cinnamon honey strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as one ages the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and the veins.
ARTHRITIS: Arthritis patients can benefit by taking one cup of hot water with two tablespoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. When taken daily even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week (out of the 200 people so treated) practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain -- and within a month, most all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis now started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS: Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder....who knew?
CHOLESTEROL: Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water given to a cholesterol patient was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, when taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol-could be cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.
COLDS: Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and, clear the sinuses, and it's delicious too!
UPSET STOMACH: Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also is said to clear stomach ulcers from its root.
GAS: According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that when Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacterial and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles (where DNA is contained) to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION: Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food is eaten relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals
INFLUENZA: A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural 'Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.
LONGEVITY: Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Use four teaspoons of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of boiling water to make a tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans increase and even a 100 year old will start performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
RASPY OR SORE THROAT: When throat has a tickle or is raspy, take one tablespoon of honey and sip until gone. Repeat every three hours until throat is without symptoms.
PIMPLES: Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it off the next morning with warm water. When done daily for two weeks, it removes all pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS: Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin Infections.
WEIGHT LOSS: Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast and on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. When taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.
CANCER: Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder three times a day for one month.
FATIGUE: Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, even when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, when taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M., the vitality of the body increases within a week.
BAD BREATH: People of South America, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water first thing in the morning so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing.
Today in Labor History
January 31 -- SOURCE: Union
Communications Services, Inc.
Some 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas—mostly Latino women—walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts. Strike leader Emma Tenayuca was eventually hounded out of the state - 1938
Ida M. Fuller is the first retiree to receive an old-age monthly benefit check under the new Social Security law. She paid in $24.75 between 1937 and 1939 on an income of $2,484; her first check was for $22.54 - 1940
After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts - 1978
(The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement: No
man in this century has had more of an impact on the lives of Hispanic
Americans, and especially farmworkers, than the legendary Cesar Chavez.
Born to migrant workers in 1927, he attended 65 elementary schools
before finishing 7th grade, the end of his formal education. Through
hard work, charisma and uncommon bravery he moved on to become founder
and leader of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and to win a
degree of justice for tens of thousands of workers... and to set a moral
example for the nation.)
Union and student pressure forces Harvard University to adopt new labor policies raising wages for lowest-paid workers - 2002
Five months after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans school board fires every teacher in the district in what the United Teachers of New Orleans sees as an effort to break the union and privatize the school system - 2005
Some 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas—mostly Latino women—walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts. Strike leader Emma Tenayuca was eventually hounded out of the state - 1938
Ida M. Fuller is the first retiree to receive an old-age monthly benefit check under the new Social Security law. She paid in $24.75 between 1937 and 1939 on an income of $2,484; her first check was for $22.54 - 1940
After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts - 1978
(The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement: No
man in this century has had more of an impact on the lives of Hispanic
Americans, and especially farmworkers, than the legendary Cesar Chavez.
Born to migrant workers in 1927, he attended 65 elementary schools
before finishing 7th grade, the end of his formal education. Through
hard work, charisma and uncommon bravery he moved on to become founder
and leader of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and to win a
degree of justice for tens of thousands of workers... and to set a moral
example for the nation.)Union and student pressure forces Harvard University to adopt new labor policies raising wages for lowest-paid workers - 2002
Five months after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans school board fires every teacher in the district in what the United Teachers of New Orleans sees as an effort to break the union and privatize the school system - 2005
-via- Pro Labor Alliance Inc. ~De
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
The Teamsters will be in front of the LA Times at 3pm today
2000 East 8th Street
This Newspaper Reader . . . - Missourian
Happy Days Aren’t Here Again - Frying Pan News
Another businessman interested in newspapers? - NOLA
Tribune Company Brings in New GC - Corporate Counsel
SPJ kills print edition of conference newspaper - Romenesko
Talking newspaper brings Advertiser to the blind - Advertiser
Ring burglarized homes of Times subscribers - Los Angeles Times
Philadelphia group launches campaign to save newspapers - Poynter
Pacific Palisades newspaper junkie buys his own paper - Los Angeles Times
Colombian official accused of burning newspapers - Journalism in the Americas
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Today in Labor History
Today's Teamster News 01.30.13
Case-Shiller Index Shows Home Prices Increased 5.5% From a Year Ago in November 2012 Economic Populist ...home prices are now comparable to September 2003...
Ray LaHood to step down as U.S. transportation secretary Washington Post ...Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican who turned distracted driving into a national crusade while serving a Democratic president, will step down after four years as transportation secretary in the Obama administration...
Obama Urges Speed on Immigration Plan, but Exposes Conflicts New York Times ...President Obama challenged Congress on Tuesday to act swiftly to put 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States on a clear path to citizenship...
31 Senate Republicans Opposed Sandy Relief After Supporting Disaster Aid For Home States Think Progress ...When the Senate passed the long-delayed $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package Monday, 36 Republicans voted against the bill. But of the 32 no-votes from Senators who are not brand-new members, at least 31 came from Republicans who had previously supported emergency aid efforts following disasters in their own states...
Viewpoint: The Decline of Unions Is Your Problem Too TIME ...If we want a better economy, then, we need a better story about how the economy works, in which a union worker is not a cost but a customer...
Right-to-work legislation returns to Augusta Bangor Daily News ...Two controversial proposals that would make Maine a “right-to-work” state are back on the table in Augusta...
Michigan asks for state high court ruling on 'right-to-work' law Reuters ...Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has asked the state Supreme Court to rule whether a law passed last month making payment of union dues voluntary is constitutional, a move critics said was designed to circumvent legal challenges by labor unions...
Gov. Rick Snyder Backs Off ‘Unfair’ Electoral Rigging Plan Think Progress ...Gov. Rick Snyder (R) came out against the plan this year...
Republicans say Electoral College changes not in store for Ohio Plain Dealer ...Ohio's Republican leaders...told The Plain Dealer this week that they are not pursuing plans to award electoral votes proportionally by congressional district...
Bill Gates: nice charity work, shame about the business practices The Guardian ...Perhaps the Republic Services dispute indicates that relying upon the generosity of billionaires is not a model upon which we can build a just and equal society – especially since the road to billionaire-dom oft seems paved with exploitation of workers, tax avoidance (hello Microsoft), and ever-decreasing wages...
Republic Services replacement worker fires shot in air at picket line MENAFN.com ...a replacement worker fired shots into the air at a picket line at the company's North Shelby Landfill in Millington...About 180 Teamsters went on strike early Monday morning over what they charge is the company's unfair labor practices...
‘Conciliators’ will decide on raise for sheriff’s staff Columbus Dispatch ...Pickaway County is pleading poverty, but unionized sheriff’s-office employees contend that the county can afford to award them their first pay raises since 2009...Teamsters Local 285, which represents 30 corrections and communications employees, sought a 4 percent raise each of the next three years...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Rig Rally Los Angeles Times Olympic Facility
Rig Rally! Los Angeles Times Olympic Facility
Our Teamster Brothers and Sisters of Local 630 have not only welcomed us into their Hall; but now they are joining us in our effort to defeat the latest De-Authorization Election. Come and meet the Officers and Staff of Teamsters Local 630 who encourage all of us to VOTE NO! Brothers and Sisters from Teamster Locals in and around the Los Angeles area will also be standing in solidarity with our Local, GCC/IBT140-N against the petitioners that seek to weaken our CBA and our ability to protect the membership and your rights!
Teamsters Local 630 is Bringing "Trouble" to our rally as a sign of our strength and solidarity! It's counterpart "Double Trouble" will have the day off! These are two awesome Rigs that truly symbolize the strength us Teamsters have behind us in our fight for our rights!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 5:30 am
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
Our Rig Rally will be across from the Shop again on 8th St. in front of the L.A. Times Olympic Facility entrance. All members should stop by and encourage all voters to BOYCOTT OR VOTE NO!
Special Thanks to Teamsters Local 630 Secretary Treasurer, Ernie Lopez, Local 630 Executive Board and the Office Staff that literally keeps things running smoothly! So be sure to stop by, before, or after your shift and grab a bite to eat, food and beverages will be available! See you all on Wednesday or Thursday!
2000 East 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90021
Our Teamster Brothers and Sisters of Local 630 have not only welcomed us into their Hall; but now they are joining us in our effort to defeat the latest De-Authorization Election. Come and meet the Officers and Staff of Teamsters Local 630 who encourage all of us to VOTE NO! Brothers and Sisters from Teamster Locals in and around the Los Angeles area will also be standing in solidarity with our Local, GCC/IBT140-N against the petitioners that seek to weaken our CBA and our ability to protect the membership and your rights!
Teamsters Local 630 is Bringing "Trouble" to our rally as a sign of our strength and solidarity! It's counterpart "Double Trouble" will have the day off! These are two awesome Rigs that truly symbolize the strength us Teamsters have behind us in our fight for our rights!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 5:30 am
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
Our Rig Rally will be across from the Shop again on 8th St. in front of the L.A. Times Olympic Facility entrance. All members should stop by and encourage all voters to BOYCOTT OR VOTE NO!
Special Thanks to Teamsters Local 630 Secretary Treasurer, Ernie Lopez, Local 630 Executive Board and the Office Staff that literally keeps things running smoothly! So be sure to stop by, before, or after your shift and grab a bite to eat, food and beverages will be available! See you all on Wednesday or Thursday!
2000 East 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90021
Tuesday Night in the Blogosphere
UCLA's Royce Hall
What The Media Gets Wrong About Guns - Advice Goddess
Newspapers and the new Common Core - The Durham News
Teamsters approve two-year pact with newspapers - Philly.com
Tribune names Eddie Lazarus as general counsel - Kevin Roderick
California Unions’ Growth Bucks National Trend - Frying Pan News
Iran's Newspapers Silent on Mass Arrest of Journalists - Global Voices
How Two Newspapers Wound Up Staging The Same Sob Story - Deadspin
NYT to work alongside startup companies as part of new initiative - Poynter
Mugging Thrusts LA Times Editor Into Challenging New Realm - Fishbowl LA
Today in Labor History
January 29 -- SOURCE: Union
Communications Services, Inc.
Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute - 1834
Six thousand railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day - 1889
Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio - 1936
(The Steward’s Toolbox, published in 2012, brings labor activists practical advice to succeed in the
day-to-day
work of building an active, democratic union. Full of concrete
examples, it’s written by shop floor leaders committed to building the
movement from the grassroots. Their lessons will help you inspire
members, make new allies, and kick-start your union.)
American Train Dispatchers Department granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1957
Dolly Parton hits number one on the record charts with "9 to 5," her anthem to the daily grind - 1981
Newly-elected President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, making it easier for women and minorities to win pay discrimination suits - 2009
Working Class Heroes
Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio - 1936 ~De
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, factory workers faced poor working conditions, low wages, and almost no benefits. This was true for the workers employed by rubber manufacturers in Akron, Ohio, such the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, B.F. Goodrich, and Firestone. In an attempt to alleviate their conditions, workers established a union named the United Rubber Workers in 1935. The following year, this union organized its first major strike within Akron's rubber industry.
The strike began as a protest against a plan created by Goodyear to reduce wages and increase the pace of production. The workers utilized the concept of the "sit-down" strike. In the past, when workers went on strike they would leave the factory to join picket lines. Company owners often hired "scab" laborers to cross the picket lines and continue production. The practice of using scab labor made it difficult for striking workers to obtain their demands. In contrast, in a sit-down strike, workers quit working but still occupied their places within the factory. This process meant that the factory owners could not send in additional workers to continue the job. In addition, factory management was more reluctant to use private security forces or other strikebreakers to intimidate the striking workers, as that approach threatened destruction to plant property.
In addition to the sit-down strike, the rubber workers also organized long picket lines in protest. Akron's mayor, Lee D. Schroy, attempted to send in the police to put down the strike, but the police officers refused to do so when they faced the thousands of organized workers. In the long term, Goodyear was forced to recognize the United Rubber Workers and negotiate better contracts with workers.
Several reasons existed for the workers' success in this strike. First, sit-in strikes made it much more difficult for employers to replace their striking workers. Equally as important in this strike was the federal government's recent passage of the Wagner Act. This legislation made unions legal for the first time in United States history. Finally, the United Rubber Workers belonged to a larger organization, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The CIO consisted of an umbrella organization for multiple unions. These unions worked together by providing both moral and material support to CIO-member unions, especially when these member unions went on strike.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=461
Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute - 1834
Six thousand railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day - 1889
Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio - 1936
(The Steward’s Toolbox, published in 2012, brings labor activists practical advice to succeed in the
day-to-day
work of building an active, democratic union. Full of concrete
examples, it’s written by shop floor leaders committed to building the
movement from the grassroots. Their lessons will help you inspire
members, make new allies, and kick-start your union.)American Train Dispatchers Department granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1957
Dolly Parton hits number one on the record charts with "9 to 5," her anthem to the daily grind - 1981
Newly-elected President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, making it easier for women and minorities to win pay discrimination suits - 2009
Working Class Heroes
Today in #LaborHistory : January 29 -- via -- www.unionist.com
Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio - 1936 ~De
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, factory workers faced poor working conditions, low wages, and almost no benefits. This was true for the workers employed by rubber manufacturers in Akron, Ohio, such the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, B.F. Goodrich, and Firestone. In an attempt to alleviate their conditions, workers established a union named the United Rubber Workers in 1935. The following year, this union organized its first major strike within Akron's rubber industry.
The strike began as a protest against a plan created by Goodyear to reduce wages and increase the pace of production. The workers utilized the concept of the "sit-down" strike. In the past, when workers went on strike they would leave the factory to join picket lines. Company owners often hired "scab" laborers to cross the picket lines and continue production. The practice of using scab labor made it difficult for striking workers to obtain their demands. In contrast, in a sit-down strike, workers quit working but still occupied their places within the factory. This process meant that the factory owners could not send in additional workers to continue the job. In addition, factory management was more reluctant to use private security forces or other strikebreakers to intimidate the striking workers, as that approach threatened destruction to plant property.
In addition to the sit-down strike, the rubber workers also organized long picket lines in protest. Akron's mayor, Lee D. Schroy, attempted to send in the police to put down the strike, but the police officers refused to do so when they faced the thousands of organized workers. In the long term, Goodyear was forced to recognize the United Rubber Workers and negotiate better contracts with workers.
Several reasons existed for the workers' success in this strike. First, sit-in strikes made it much more difficult for employers to replace their striking workers. Equally as important in this strike was the federal government's recent passage of the Wagner Act. This legislation made unions legal for the first time in United States history. Finally, the United Rubber Workers belonged to a larger organization, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The CIO consisted of an umbrella organization for multiple unions. These unions worked together by providing both moral and material support to CIO-member unions, especially when these member unions went on strike.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=461
Monday, January 28, 2013
Eric Garcetti Gains Another Endorsement
Thank you to the PPDC - Pacific Palisades Democratic Club for your endorsement in the race for LA mayor! http://lat.ms/VIQdeN
Sunday, January 27, 2013
MEETING REMINDER!
MEETING REMINDER
All members are requested to attend this Mondays meeting (01.28.13) scheduled for 2:00 pm. at the Hall.
750 Stanford Ave. Los Angeles, Ca. 90021
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the upcoming election and the proposed dues structure recommended by the Constitution and By-Laws Committee. This is the second of the Constitution required 3 meetings needed to approve or reject the proposed Dues amounts. Next month we will hold a 3rd meeting at which time all eligible members will vote in favor of, or against the Committee's recommendations.
We will also be discussing the importance of voting no in the election, or just plain boycott the election and not vote at all! The petitioners need 50%+1 of the bargaining unit, not of just those that vote, but if you do decide to send a message and vote, then a no vote will tell the freeriders that you have had enough of subsidizing their dues and enable the Local to enforce the Union Security once and for all!
Part-time and Apprentices are invited to attend and provide their input so be sure to make them aware or better yet, carpool and bring them along. Parking is available in the lot in back of the Hall on Gladys St. If you decide to park on the street around the hall, it is limited to one hour, so be aware and avoid a citation.
In Solidarity!
All members are requested to attend this Mondays meeting (01.28.13) scheduled for 2:00 pm. at the Hall.
750 Stanford Ave. Los Angeles, Ca. 90021
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the upcoming election and the proposed dues structure recommended by the Constitution and By-Laws Committee. This is the second of the Constitution required 3 meetings needed to approve or reject the proposed Dues amounts. Next month we will hold a 3rd meeting at which time all eligible members will vote in favor of, or against the Committee's recommendations.
We will also be discussing the importance of voting no in the election, or just plain boycott the election and not vote at all! The petitioners need 50%+1 of the bargaining unit, not of just those that vote, but if you do decide to send a message and vote, then a no vote will tell the freeriders that you have had enough of subsidizing their dues and enable the Local to enforce the Union Security once and for all!
Part-time and Apprentices are invited to attend and provide their input so be sure to make them aware or better yet, carpool and bring them along. Parking is available in the lot in back of the Hall on Gladys St. If you decide to park on the street around the hall, it is limited to one hour, so be aware and avoid a citation.
In Solidarity!
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Two Digital Cameras Needed for Photo Class
MPJI update :
Group photo of my students from Inglewood High School we took the group photo this afternoon after a video session for the MPJI website. I have six very nice and intelligent students and we are preparing for some field trips to captured images and moments for their upcoming photo exhibit in April which will debut April 28 in the same venue as my photo exhibit. The Museum of African American art 4005 Crenshaw Blvd third floor of Macy’s. My photo exhibit will feature 24 years of my photo journalism and other photography work in Los Angeles and throughout the country.
It promises to be one spectacular show/exhibit there will be a section dedicated to my history making coverage of “the trial of the century”. I have many untold stories from that historical trial and over 18,000 images most of which have never been published but many will be in my book celebrating the 20 year anniversary of the historical trial in 2014. Tentative title of the book O.J. the untold story of the trial of the century through the eyes and lens of the Black Press of America.
-Iconic history making Photo/ Journalist Haywood Galbreath-
The students are in need of two digital cameras, new or used, won't you consider making a donation of the needed equipment?As you probably already know by now I'm most attracted to men and women that give without requiring something in return, Mr. Galbreath is this type of person. Contact either of us via Facebook or visit his website by clicking here. Thank you, Edward
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Gannett Blog: Here's a new spreadsheet to track the GPS layoffs
Gannett Blog: Here's a new spreadsheet to track the GPS layoffs: Following requests from Gannett Bloggers , I've just created a read-only spreadsheet to track the estimated 100 layoffs across Gannett P...
Salma Hayek endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor of LA!
Salma Hayek endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor of LA! Join our campaign at http://
Today in Labor History
January 26 -- SOURCE: Union
Communications Services, Inc.
In what could be considered the first workers’ compensation agreement in America, pirate Henry Morgan pledges his underlings 600 pieces of eight or six slaves to compensate for a lost arm or leg. Also part of the pirate’s code, reports Roger Newell: shares of the booty were equal regardless of race or sex, and shipboard decisions were made collectively. - 1695
(Kids Library: Mother Jones, Triangle Fire, Cesar Chavez: No pirate tales here, but, still, we’ve collected this special set of attractive and kid-friendly books to help today’s youngsters understand the historic struggle of working people for justice and dignity. Each book explains an historic figure or history-altering incident in easy-to-understand language.)
Samuel Gompers, first AFL president, born in London, England. He emigrated to the U.S. as a youth - 1850
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is chartered by the American Federation of Labor to organize "every wage earner from the man who takes the bullock at the house until it goes into the hands of the consumer." - 1987
Workers win a two-day sitdown strike at the Brooklyn electric plant that powers the city's entire subway system - 1937
A handful of American companies announce nearly 60,000 layoffs today, as the recession that began during the George W. Bush presidency charges full-tilt toward what has become known as the Great Recession - 2009
When she became first lady in 1933, Eleanor devoted considerable time to those hardest hit by poverty, visiting an encampment of World War I veterans (referred to at the time as “Bonus Marchers”) in Washington, sharecroppers in the South, and people on breadlines in San Francisco. Her public support for union organizing drives among coal miners, garment workers, textile workers, and tenant farmers (including the racially integrated and left-wing Southern Tenant Farmers Union) lent visibility and credibility to their efforts.
As Brigid O’Farrell documents in her book, She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker, Eleanor not only supported organizing efforts; she joined a union herself. In 1936, she proudly and publicly became a member of the American Newspaper Guild at a time when workers were being beaten, and some killed, for participating in organizing drives, strikes, and sit-down protests.
As first lady, Roosevelt donated the proceeds from her radio broadcasts to the Womens Trade Union League and promoted the WTUL in her columns and speeches. She invited women and union activists, including Schneiderman, to the White House and Hyde Park, seating them next to FDR so he could hear their concerns. As Schneiderman recalled in her autobiography, Eleanor overcame the trappings of privilege to become “a born trade unionist.”
She pushed to give women a larger voice in the Democratic Party and urged FDR to appoint women (including Perkins, the first female Cabinet member) to key positions in government. And soon after becoming first lady, she began holding her own press conferences for women reporters only—in part to help preserve their jobs during the Depression.
[Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a podium at an AFL-CIO event. Photo by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives: http://bit.ly/W7OLno ~De
![Photo: Eleanor: The Radical Roosevelt
Many younger Americans probably know little about Eleanor Roosevelt, and if their first encounter with her is the new film Hyde Park on Hudson, what they’ll learn is incredibly misleading and inaccurate. Historian Peter Dreier steps in to set the record straight: http://bit.ly/10T5Aq5
[Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a podium at an AFL-CIO event. Photo by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives: http://bit.ly/W7OLno]](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c76.0.403.403/p403x403/484842_10151396326850932_738003090_n.jpg)
In what could be considered the first workers’ compensation agreement in America, pirate Henry Morgan pledges his underlings 600 pieces of eight or six slaves to compensate for a lost arm or leg. Also part of the pirate’s code, reports Roger Newell: shares of the booty were equal regardless of race or sex, and shipboard decisions were made collectively. - 1695
(Kids Library: Mother Jones, Triangle Fire, Cesar Chavez: No pirate tales here, but, still, we’ve collected this special set of attractive and kid-friendly books to help today’s youngsters understand the historic struggle of working people for justice and dignity. Each book explains an historic figure or history-altering incident in easy-to-understand language.)
Samuel Gompers, first AFL president, born in London, England. He emigrated to the U.S. as a youth - 1850
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is chartered by the American Federation of Labor to organize "every wage earner from the man who takes the bullock at the house until it goes into the hands of the consumer." - 1987
Workers win a two-day sitdown strike at the Brooklyn electric plant that powers the city's entire subway system - 1937
A handful of American companies announce nearly 60,000 layoffs today, as the recession that began during the George W. Bush presidency charges full-tilt toward what has become known as the Great Recession - 2009
-via- YES! Magazine
When she became first lady in 1933, Eleanor devoted considerable time to those hardest hit by poverty, visiting an encampment of World War I veterans (referred to at the time as “Bonus Marchers”) in Washington, sharecroppers in the South, and people on breadlines in San Francisco. Her public support for union organizing drives among coal miners, garment workers, textile workers, and tenant farmers (including the racially integrated and left-wing Southern Tenant Farmers Union) lent visibility and credibility to their efforts.
As Brigid O’Farrell documents in her book, She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker, Eleanor not only supported organizing efforts; she joined a union herself. In 1936, she proudly and publicly became a member of the American Newspaper Guild at a time when workers were being beaten, and some killed, for participating in organizing drives, strikes, and sit-down protests.
As first lady, Roosevelt donated the proceeds from her radio broadcasts to the Womens Trade Union League and promoted the WTUL in her columns and speeches. She invited women and union activists, including Schneiderman, to the White House and Hyde Park, seating them next to FDR so he could hear their concerns. As Schneiderman recalled in her autobiography, Eleanor overcame the trappings of privilege to become “a born trade unionist.”
She pushed to give women a larger voice in the Democratic Party and urged FDR to appoint women (including Perkins, the first female Cabinet member) to key positions in government. And soon after becoming first lady, she began holding her own press conferences for women reporters only—in part to help preserve their jobs during the Depression.
[Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a podium at an AFL-CIO event. Photo by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives: http://bit.ly/W7OLno ~De
Free Ticket to Mind Meld
It
was a great turn out for our show last week, now it's time for the
weekly FREE TICKET contest for the January 30th performance of "Mind
Meld!"
(Only 3 performances remain!)
I'm giving away 5 pairs of FREE tickets. Here are the rules:
1. The first 5 people to MESSAGE me with the correct answers get the tickets.
2. DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS POST.
Instead, MESSAGE ME the answers or you'll be disqualified.
3. You MUST be able to attend the show on January 30th.
4. Answer these three questions:
Q: Who is the opening act for the show?
Q: What time does the show start?
Q: What street is the theater on?
Winners will be posted on my page on Monday.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! If you miss out grab a ticket on line for one of the three remaining performances.
http://www.laughstub.com/
It
was a great turn out for our show last week, now it's time for the
weekly FREE TICKET contest for the January 30th performance of "Mind
Meld!"
(Only 3 performances remain!)
I'm giving away 5 pairs of FREE tickets. Here are the rules:
1. The first 5 people to MESSAGE me with the correct answers get the tickets.
2. DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS POST.
Instead, MESSAGE ME the answers or you'll be disqualified.
3. You MUST be able to attend the show on January 30th.
4. Answer these three questions:
Q: Who is the opening act for the show?
Q: What time does the show start?
Q: What street is the theater on?
Winners will be posted on my page on Monday.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! If you miss out grab a ticket on line for one of the three remaining performances.
http://www.laughstub.com/
(Only 3 performances remain!)
I'm giving away 5 pairs of FREE tickets. Here are the rules:
1. The first 5 people to MESSAGE me with the correct answers get the tickets.
2. DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS POST.
Instead, MESSAGE ME the answers or you'll be disqualified.
3. You MUST be able to attend the show on January 30th.
4. Answer these three questions:
Q: Who is the opening act for the show?
Q: What time does the show start?
Q: What street is the theater on?
Winners will be posted on my page on Monday.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! If you miss out grab a ticket on line for one of the three remaining performances.
http://www.laughstub.com/
Friday, January 25, 2013
Gannett Blog: Here's a new spreadsheet to track the GPS layoffs
Gannett Blog: Here's a new spreadsheet to track the GPS layoffs: Following requests from Gannett Bloggers , I've just created a read-only spreadsheet to track the estimated 100 layoffs across Gannett P...
Frank Hannon Band
Frank Hannon Band, a set on Flickr.
Fantastic rock/blues band that rocks where ever they perform.