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lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10094Oak Ridge Boys Donate Tickets To Laid-Off GM Workers In Wisconsina//li
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pEconomic Report:/p
pFilings of unemployment claims jumped to a 26-year-high during the first week of December. Claims were up by an additional 58,000 last week putting the overall total of those filing for unemployment at 573,000. That put the number of claims at their highest rate since November of 1982. Other numbers also don’t look so good. In November 533,000 jobs were cut in the United States creating the worst labor market in 34 years./p
pThey may be losing their jobs two days before Christmas, but on Wednesday 500 autoworkers at a closing GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin got tickets to see country-gospel band The Oak Ridge Boys. The band said they wanted to “bring some joy” to the laid off workers./p
pWith a consistent stream of mass layoff announcements there is at least one organization that is hiring. Jesse Russell reports:/p
pThe announcement of jobs being made available is rarely a reason for despair, but with more and more companies announcing job cuts each day, state unemployment offices across the country are opening up new jobs to deal with an increase in claimants. Pennsylvania is one of those states that has been forced to hire more employees to deal with the increase of claimants. The state hired 81 more employees in the month of November and they have been dealing with a 41 percent increase in unemployment benefit filings over the same time last year. /p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pA week of dozens of “People’s Bailout” protest actions is continuing across the country. Ricardo Valadez of Jobs With Justice says there’s growing momentum for real reforms to benefit workers. He says the Chicago sitdown strike victory is a powerful message that unified action can win for workers./p
p[Valadez]: “I think momentum is building and I think the Chicago sitdown – and the victory there – really just kind of reminded everyone, reminded workers everywhere, you know, what can be done when workers are organized – that we can win, even in hard economic times.”/p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pBank of America announced Thursday it’s cutting 35,000 jobs over three years as it absorbs Merrill Lynch in the midst of the recession. The two banks separately had a total of 307,000 employees. The huge job cut came a week after the boards of the two companies approved the merger./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pEfforts are still underway on Capitol Hill to come up with a bipartisan compromise on the emergency loans to the auto industry. Senate Republicans are attacking the union wages and benefits of UAW members working for the Detroit Three. They are blocking the loans until enough punishment is inflicted upon the UAW. It’s a striking class contrast to the way the Wall Street banking and insurance bailout was handled. A U.S. Senate vote on the loans could come very soon./p
Congratulations to workers at Republic Windows & Doors who made justice happen. After a six-day sit-in at the plant, workers at Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago voted to accept a settlement late last night.
This from the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) site, via Jobs with Justice:
The settlement totals $1.75 million. It [...]
This week, President-elect Barack Obama sat down with the Los Angeles Times for his first in-depth newspaper interview since his historic election. In the interview, Obama said that part of his economic agenda would be fighting for workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life—the goal of the Employee Free Choice Act, [...]
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