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lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10246Wave Of Massive Job Losses Continue – Expected To Last Through First Half of Yeara//li
lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10247New York Union Workers Protest Governor’s Budgeta//li
lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10248Striking Workers At Vought Aircraft Threatened With Replacementa//li
lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10249NYC Will Likely Avoid Replay Of Transit Strikea//li
lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10250Economic Report: U.S. Private Sector Shed 693,000 Jobs In Decembera//li
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pThe private sector lost 693,000 jobs in December, much higher than the projected job losses of 500,000. The service sector was hit the hardest shedding 473,000 jobs and manufacturing saw a loss of 120,000. Medium-sized businesses, or those with between 50 and 499 workers, were also hit hard letting go of 321,000 employees. Small businesses also faired poorly losing 281,000 jobs./p
pNew York City has likely avoided a repeat of the transit strike from December 2005. Jesse Russell reports:/p
pIn December of 2005, subway and bus drivers represented by the Transport Workers Union of America walked off the job for 60 hours when they failed to reach an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. With the union’s contract ready about to expire on January 15, the two sides seem ready to avoid a repeat of the strike announcing plans to head into arbitration with current negotiations at a deadlock. More than 35,000 workers are represented by the union. /p
pWorkers at a Vought Aircraft plant in Nashville who have been on strike since September have been threatened with replacement if they don’t return to work. The 900 employees walked off the job after they rejected the last contract proposal from the company. The company is seeking to stop new payments into an employee pension fund and instead introducing a 401(k) plan. Other issues include overtime benefits and seniority. The workers are represented by the International Association of Machinists who last met with the company on December 12. /p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pThousands of workers rallied in New York’s state capital Wednesday for a March for Main Street. Organized by the the New York state AFL-CIO and several unions including SEIU, AFSCME, CSEA, New York State Nurses Association and the Public Employees Federation, the march drew 6,000 workers protesting New York Governor Dabid Paterson’s budget proposal. Ken Brynien is President of the Public Employees Federation./p
p[Brynien]: “This is happening all over the country. The unions are being asked for concessions, workers are being asked to give up things. In a period of time when people are losing their homes and their jobs and their pensions, I don’t think the way to fix the state or the country is to ask for those people that are in the process of losing all this stuff to give up more. We’ve got to find ways to bring in money that don’t hit a second and third time the same people that are suffering./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pMassive job losses continue with Alcoa’s announcement that it’s cutting 13,500 jobs, about 13 percent of its workforce. Layoffs in December were four times what they were in December of 2007. That’s according to the placement company Challenger, Gray amp; Christmas, which sys that heavy job slashing could continue through the first half of this year./p
On Friday, Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work, appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” for a great interview about the importance of quickly passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
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