Team Garcetti, a set on Flickr.
Photographs of Mayor elect Eric Garcetti and his campaign team from January through June 30, 2013.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Teamster Nation: Walmart says it won't spy on workers anymore
Teamster Nation: Walmart says it won't spy on workers anymore: We'll see about that. At least for now, Walmart and its public relations firm say they won't spy illegally on their workers.
Tuesday Night in the Blogosphere
Los Angeles City Hall with Joye Long
The Last Trace of a Great Newspaper - Barron's
OC Register to launch daily Irvine newspaper - The Fresno Bee
Newspapers’ TV purchases may backfire comeback plans - Wan-Ifra
‘Where is my newspaper?’ We’re doing our best - Vernon Broadcaster
Senator Wants Government to Decide Who is a Journalist - Technorati
Demise of daily newspaper has consequences beyond tradition - Oregonian
Reporters at GateHouse withhold bylines after editor is laid off - Romenesko
Diversifying Away From Newspapers and Into TV Stations - Smallcap Network
Newspapers are doing so poorly that television looks like better bet - Investor Place
Today in Labor History
July 02 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962
President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964
The Labor Dept. reports that U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs over the prior month, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent - 2009
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962 ~De
Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices FULL MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jazb24Q2s94
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962
President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964
The Labor Dept. reports that U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs over the prior month, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent - 2009
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962 ~De
Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices FULL MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jazb24Q2s94
Teamsters in Action for Alzhiemer's
Teamsters in Action, a set on Flickr.
Last Saturday the Teamsters Horsemen Motorcycle Association Chapter 42 organized a fund raiser to find a cure for Alzheimer's, raising several thousand dollars for this worthy cause. The weather was sweltering as the humidity soared, making it a rather uncomfortable event, yet the crowd endured the heat, even in their leather outfits. Great job ladies and gentlemen.
Are Newspaper Publishers Needed?
As a child growing up in Alhambra, California I still recall
seeing newspapers throughout our home, my grandmother was an avid reader, and
would spend hours with the broadsheet spread open. My grandfather and my father
both worked for the Los Angeles Times, so the Times was always readily
available.
My grandparents and parents have all moved on to heaven, yet
I have continued the tradition of always having a newspaper in my household,
just doesn’t feel right not having the hardcopy nearby. Unfortunately after
moving from San Dimas to La Puente I had to discontinue my subscription to The
Daily Bulletin as I live too far west for their delivery area. I still have two
newspapers delivered daily, the Los Angeles Times and the San Gabriel Valley
Tribune, with LA Weekly delivered via snail mail.
My personal tenure at the Los Angeles Times ran from 1972 to
2011, with the 1970’s and 80’s the heyday for the newspaper. During my first
two decades at the newspaper several presidents would visit the newspaper, with
the pope himself coming to pay Times Mirror Square a visit, those days of
politicians visiting the newspaper seem to have become but a memory.
Newspapers have attempted to adapt and retain readers and
advertisers to no avail as the Internet age continues to expand, and pull
subscribers away, leaving the base readership over forty years of age. So it’s
easy to understand newspapers are not dying, their readers are.
The CEO of the new Tribune Company, Peter Liguori, is investing
$2.7 billion in the television industry and nothing in newspapers, which
reveals the future profits of this fading industry. With a possible tax bill of
$250 to $500 million hanging over the new Tribune Company, would anyone really
be interested in purchasing the newspapers under the control of this media
giant?
Unfortunately cutting costs at newspapers has taken priority
at a newspaper near you, as the sinking ships scramble to remain afloat in the
rough waters of the Internet, with many sinking into memory. Staffs have been
sacrificed, with many papers resorting to scaling back production to publishing
three or four days per week as their circulation continues the downward trend.
Mr. Liguori has some very tough decisions to make regarding
the Tribune newspapers and making their appeal to a possible buyer inviting,
one area that I’ve never heard mentioned is the publisher position. Are
newspaper publishers really a position that is needed, or have they outgrown
their usefulness?
The savings of eliminating all Tribune newspaper publishers
would not save the newspapers from the inevitable, but it will add a few years
of life to this struggling industry.
Monday, July 01, 2013
Monday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
My view from City Hall Los Angeles
Arrested For Bottled Water-Buying - Advice Goddess
No more newspaper reservations for you! - Romenesko
Start the Presses: The Sun sets on Pasadena - Pasadena Sun
TV market consolidates further with Tribune deal - Gannett Blog
Koch Pledge Tied to Congressional Climate Inaction - The New Yorker
Deal makes Tribune largest commercial TV owner in U.S. - Chicago Business
NY Times Blogger Demanded Travel and Expenses from Companies - Gawker
Does Tribune purchase of TV stations impact its newspaper sale? - Mark Lacter
Brazil: More turn to independent media after newsroom layoffs - Editors Weblog
GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy.
We will do so through their union local or their national union if they
establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone
knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different
increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this
cause. Thugs giving hugs!
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GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy. We will do so through their union local or their national union if they establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this cause. Thugs giving hugs!
Give $ 5.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give $10.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give$50.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give$ 100.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give $ 1000.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy. We will do so through their union local or their national union if they establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this cause. Thugs giving hugs!
Give $ 5.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give $10.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give$50.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give$ 100.00 link
https://www.paypal.com/
Give $ 1000.00 link
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Today in Labor History
July 01 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The American Flint Glass workers union is formed, headquartered in Pittsburgh. It was to merge into the Steelworkers 140 years later, in 2003 - 1873
Steel workers in Cleveland begin what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts - 1885
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. Seven strikers and three Pinkertons killed as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs to protect strikebreakers - 1892
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers stages what is to become an unsuccessful 3-month strike against U.S. Steel Corp. Subsidiaries - 1901
One million railway shopmen strike - 1922
Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up - 1929
(The Lexicon of Labor: If
you’ve never quite understood all the major legislative acts affecting
labor, like Taft-Hartley or Davis-Bacon or Walsh-Healy; if you need a
better understanding of key labor figures like Mother Jones, Sam
Gompers, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez and George Meany; if terms like
"Boulwarism," "maquiladora" or "zipper clause" beg for explanation; if
you need to know exactly when the first Labor Day parade or sit-down
strike occurred, this is the book for you.)
In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working condition improvements. They won all their demands, including a union shop - 1956
National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance Employees, United Federation of Postal Clerks, National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees & National Association of Special Delivery Messengers merge to become American Postal Workers Union - 1971
Int’l Jewelry Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1980
Graphic Arts Int’l Union merges with Int’l Printing & Graphic Communications Union to become Graphic Communications Int’l Union, now a conference of the Teamsters - 1983
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt
repeatedly
deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over
the course of the strike, which broke the union - 1983
Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merges with Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees - 1995
Int’l Chemical Workers Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union - 1996
The Newspaper Guild merges with Communications Workers of America - 1997
United American Nurses affiliate with the AFL-CIO - 2001
The American Flint Glass workers union is formed, headquartered in Pittsburgh. It was to merge into the Steelworkers 140 years later, in 2003 - 1873
Steel workers in Cleveland begin what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts - 1885
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. Seven strikers and three Pinkertons killed as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs to protect strikebreakers - 1892
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers stages what is to become an unsuccessful 3-month strike against U.S. Steel Corp. Subsidiaries - 1901
One million railway shopmen strike - 1922
Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up - 1929
(The Lexicon of Labor: If
you’ve never quite understood all the major legislative acts affecting
labor, like Taft-Hartley or Davis-Bacon or Walsh-Healy; if you need a
better understanding of key labor figures like Mother Jones, Sam
Gompers, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez and George Meany; if terms like
"Boulwarism," "maquiladora" or "zipper clause" beg for explanation; if
you need to know exactly when the first Labor Day parade or sit-down
strike occurred, this is the book for you.)In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working condition improvements. They won all their demands, including a union shop - 1956
National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance Employees, United Federation of Postal Clerks, National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees & National Association of Special Delivery Messengers merge to become American Postal Workers Union - 1971
Int’l Jewelry Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1980
Graphic Arts Int’l Union merges with Int’l Printing & Graphic Communications Union to become Graphic Communications Int’l Union, now a conference of the Teamsters - 1983
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt
repeatedly
deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over
the course of the strike, which broke the union - 1983Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merges with Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees - 1995
Int’l Chemical Workers Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union - 1996
The Newspaper Guild merges with Communications Workers of America - 1997
United American Nurses affiliate with the AFL-CIO - 2001
A Fireman's Prayer
Thoughts and prayers for the firefighters, their families and the people of Yarnell Hill.
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