(ISSN 0023-6667) Hibbing PUC workers strike for two days AFSCME Local 94 mem- “Nobody wins in a strike. Man- others were brought in from a bers employed by Hibbing agement and the employees non-union Twin Cities firm. Public Utilities went out on both compromised and both “There were also some strike for two days last week. sides got a contract they think issues with the non-union The 79 union members, affili- they can live with.” trucking company that delivers ated with Nashwauk-based The parties have been in the coal, but all in all it went AFSCME Council 65, walked negotiations since last October well,” said Mandich. off the job over failed contract on the contract that expired A mediation session sched- talks on last Thursday but were December 31. The parties uled for Friday, May 28, 2010 An Injury to One is an Injury to All! back to work Saturday evening signed one contract for the rest with the Minnesota Bureau of WEDNESDAY VOL. 115 “We settled Saturday of this year, and another for Mediation Service was can- evening late,” said Council 65 three years that will begin in celed by HPUC General JUNE 2, 2010 NO. 23 business agent Mark Mandich. January 2011. Manager Jayson Fischer late “We were able to spread the Thursday evening. Fischer said money out by signing the con- the PUC was “unprepared” to tacts that way,” said Mandich. negotiate because of the strike AFSCME 94 had compro- that was about to occur. mised on a number of issues in Pickets were up 24/7 for the negotiations including health two days at PUC’s power plant, insurance, pay equity and no 1902 East 6th Avenue. pay increase for 2010. AFSCME Local 94 has a Mandich said it was very proud tradition of providing respectful picket line in spite of quality utility services for all the company bringing in four residents of the city of Hibbing scabs, including a manager with gas, electric, steam and from Virginia’s PUC. Three water. Senate District 7 added to

City Councilor Kerry Gauthier told part of the gathering for a Labor 2010 Kickoff door- House screenings June 10 knock May 25, including Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson (4th from left, The Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body has added Senate front row), that he would announce the next day for the Minnesota House District 7B seat District 7 to the legislative races that it will screen at 6:00 p.m., vacated when Rep. Roger Reinert decided to run for the Senate 7 seat, which opened when Thursday, June 10 in Wellstone Hall of the Duluth Labor Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon became Mark Dayton’s lieutenant governor mate. Got that? Temple, 2002 London Road. Minnesota House of Represen- tative districts 6B, 7A, and 7B will also be screened that night. Prettner Solon to run as Dayton’s Lt. Gov. With recent movements by sitting legislators the Central Body As this issue of the Labor the Minnesota Legislature March 2, 2005 pages 1 and 8.) has decided to complete all its legislative screenings on June 10. World went to press, the filing being up this year, that means Rep. Roger Reinert (Duluth All four districts have been represented by AFL-CIO- deadline for candidates had not Prettner Solon will give up her 7B) has filed for Prettner endorsed candidates, but things started changing when Senator passed yet. It was to end District 7 Senate seat. Solon’s Senate District 7 seat Yvonne Prettner Solon decided to accept Mark Dayton’s offer to Tuesday, June 1 at 5:00 p.m., After serving 12 years on as has Republican Rilla Opelt, be his lieutenant governor running mate. That meant she could but there has been movement the Duluth City Council, who has had many failed bids not run again for her senate seat that is up this year. aplenty locally. Prettner Solon won a special for public office. Prettner Rep. Roger Reinert of House District 7B then threw his hat On May 24 Duluth State election in January 2002 to Solon had thrown her support into the Senate District 7 race vacating that House seat. Reinert Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon replace her husband, Senator to City Councilor Patrick will be opposed by Republican Rilla Opelt for the senate seat. accepted Mark Dayton’s offer Sam Solon, who had died a Boyle, but he declined to run City Councilor Kerry Gauthier has filed for the House 7B seat to be his lieutenant governor month earlier. She was re-elect- for the seat. vacated by Reinert. Republican Travis Silvers has also filed. running mate. With all seats in ed that November and again in City Councilor Kerry Rep. Mary Murphy has filed for re-election in District 6B but 2006 with 72 and 75 percent of Gauthier has filed for Reinert’s did not have an opponent at press time. the vote respectively. House District 7B seat. Rep. Tom Huntley has also filed for re-election and is being The Dayton/Prettner Solon Gauthier would not have to opposed by perennial Republican candidate Carinda Horton, ticket will face Matt Entenza give up his council seat for the The candidate filing period closed at 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, and his running mate Robyne legislative run as his term June 1 after this issue went to press. The Primary Election has Robinson, and DFL-endorsed expires in 2014. been moved up to Tuesday, August 10 this year. Margaret Anderson Kelliher All other labor-endorsed All affiliated local unions’ members are invited to COPE and her running mate John legislators from the region (Committee On Political Education) candidate screenings. Gunyou in the DFL Primary have filed for re-election. All COPE recommendations for endorsements will be considered by Election Tuesday, August 10. but Senator David Tomassoni Duluth Central Labor Body delegates only at the monthly meet- Robinson left Fox News 9 (DFL-5) and Rep. Mary ing immediately following the screenings. If there are any ques- as an anchor after 20 years the Murphy (DFL-6B) have oppo- tions as to who your local union’s delegates are, submit a new list day before she was announced nents at press time. to the Labor World office, 728-4469 or fax 724-1413. New del- Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon as Entenza’s pick. She also has Of the 67 senate districts 11 egates with credentials will be sworn-in before the meeting. a line of jewelry she markets. had only one candidate filing, It takes a two-thirds vote of delegates present for candidates Gunyou, one the state’s with 6 being Republican, 5 to gain an endorsement. leading budget experts, is city DFL. In Senate District 67, manager of Minnetonka and where Minnesota’s first Minnesota Gubernatorial Endorsements was the state’s longest serving Hmong legislator Mee Moua is DEMOCRATIC FARMER LABOR Finance Director under stepping down, seven DFLers Republican Arne Carlson. In have filed. Mark Dayton–AFSCME Council 5, Teamsters Joint 2005 Gunyou and Jay Of the 134 House seats, 18 Council 32, USW District 11 Kiedrowski, who had worked did not have opposition, 12 for Gov. Rudy Perpich, toured being Republican, 6 DFL. Matt Entenza– the state telling anyone who The St. Louis County Margaret Anderson Kelliher–AFSCME Council 65, would listen what was wrong Attorney’s race will have a with Republican Governor Tim chance to be divisive. Melanie Education Minnesota, IBEW State Council, MAPE, Pawlenty’s budget ideas. (See Ford, who beat Alan Mitchell Minnesota Nurses Association, Operating Engineers 49, www.laborworld.org-Issues- See Elections...page 7 UNITE HERE New retirees group still seeking members Book tells real ACORN story A group of retirees from the remember when things were they won’t with the way things A new book “Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, Duluth AFL-CIO Central good on the local, state, and are going. We need to work to America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Labor Body is continuing their national level,” said Deb change things.” Organizing Group” gives us a look at democracy, poverty, and efforts to become a viable Bloom. “We want future gener- Among topics of discussion progressive politics through the work of ACORN. organization. ations of Americans to have at their last meeting May 13, Author John Atlas is a longtime public interest lawyer, “We’re all old enough to those kind of memories too, but those in attendance talked writer, and organizer. He is a founder and current president of about needing to improve the the National Housing Institute, which publishes Shelterforce. America Votes has openings job picture, even though His work has appeared in numerous publications including The they’re not looking for work, If you’re looking to get involved in grassroots politics with Huffington Post, The Star Ledger, The New York Times, education, even though they’re Philadelphia Inquirer, Tikkun, The Nation, Dissent, New Jersey young people in this region, America Votes is currently looking not going back to school, and for two or three student organizers out of its Duluth office. Reporter, and Social Policy. pensions, even though they’ve Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last pres- America Votes is a coalition of the largest issue-based mem- got theirs. bership organizations in the nation, joined together to develop a idential campaign to describe what really happened in “I’m doing very well with ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an permanent grassroots infrastructure within the progressive com- my retirement, but I’m worried munity. Their partner groups work on a broad range of issues unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and about those who are still work- how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals. including the environment, civil and human rights, reproductive ing–will a good retirement be rights, education, and labor. Based on Atlas’s own eyewitness original reporting, as the there for them–and I’m worried only journalist to have access to ACORN’s staff and board America Votes Education & Action Fund (AVEA) was estab- about educational opportunities lished to serve the public welfare by advancing progressive poli- meetings, the book documents the critical transition from for young people,” said George founder Wade Rathke, a white New Orleans radical to Bertha cies, expanding access to the ballot, and protecting every Sundstrom. “There seems to be American’s right to vote. Lewis, a Brooklyn African American activist. a lot of lies, poor memories, The story begins in the 1970s, when a small group of young Student organizers work closely with campus organizers to and bad ideas out there now implement the America Votes youth voter engagement plan. men and women, led by a charismatic college dropout, began a that aren’t going to get America quest to help the powerless help themselves. In a tale full of Duties and responsibilities include door to door canvassing, where it needs to go again.” phone banking, other voter contact tactics, and recruiting and unusual characters and dramatic conflicts, the book follows the Buddy Robinson said the ups and downs of ACORN’s organizers and members as they retaining volunteers. information that is being Candidates must currently be a student at Duluth-area col- confront big corporations and unresponsive government offi- echoed in the media is almost cials in Albuquerque, Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit, Little Rock, leges or universities. demanding a truth squad to Some knowledge of electoral operations such as canvassing, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the Twin Cities. counter it. The author follows the course of local and national cam- phone banks, data management is preferred, along with familiar- While some media outlets ity with social media tools, including Facebook, Twitter, paigns to organize unions, fight the subprime mortgage crisis, are enjoying making hay with promote living wages for working people, struggle for afford- YouTube, etc., as well as computer proficiency in MS Office, the idea that retirees and sen- Outlook, internet tools and should have database and spread- able housing and against gentrification, and help Hurricane iors are becoming more conser- Katrina’s survivors return to New Orleans. sheet experience. vative, this group’s discussions Compensation is $10 per hour at 15-20 hours per week. The book dispels the conservative myth that we can only took Minnesota Republican help the poor through private soup kitchens and charity and the To apply send a resume and cover letter to Tom Boik, Governor Tim Pawlenty to task [email protected]. liberal myth that the solution rests simply with more govern- for being willing to destroy his ment services. Seeds of Change, not only provides a gripping state for his national aspira- look at ACORN’s four decades of effective organizing, but also IBT organizes 14,000 at UC tions. offers a hopeful analysis of the potential for a revival of real BERKELEY, Calif. (PAI)--Some 14,000 members of an The group has scheduled American democracy. independent union of University of California system workers their next meeting for “There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change will now be a Teamsters local, after an overwhelming 81%-19% Thursday, June 10 at 5:30 in than in a year’s worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined affiliation vote on May 20, the Teamsters announced. Wellstone Hall of the Duluth with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers,” The Coalition of University Employees, which will be the Labor Temple, 2002 London said Todd Gitlin of Columbia University. new local, represents administrative and library assistants, Road. They invite anyone, The book is available at http://www.amazon.com/John- cashiers, public safety dispatchers and other clerical employees union or non-union, that shares Atlas/e/B002QNVLA2 and Vanderbilt University Press at 11 University of California campuses statewide. their view that the way to make http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/387/seeds-of- “We will work hard on the members’ behalf for a fair contract America great again is by change. You can also find the book through Northern Lights with the University of California,” Teamsters President James doing things that strengthen the Books & Gifts in Duluth, 307 Canal Park Drive, 722-5267. Hoffa promised. “The Teamsters are experts in representing middle class to attend and to education employees at all levels, and we will bring this knowl- bring a friend. edge to the negotiating table.” The group will host the active Minnesota AFL-CIO Retirees group Thursday, July Bye I.U.O.E. Local 70 22 to find out how that organi- zation is structured and oper- Monthly Arrowhead Regional Meeting ates. A luncheon is scheduled Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 5:00 P.M. for noon in Freeman Hall of the Buddy, Duluth Labor Center, Hall B Duluth Labor Temple for the get together. As with all the Dave Monsour, Business Manager, (651) 646-4566 activities of the group, feel free to attend. we’ ll CHUM’s Food Shelf for Working Households For more information con- has switched to Wednesdays, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., tact Deb Bloom at 390-8286, at 120 North 1st Avenue West. If you are unable or [email protected]. miss to access the food shelf during its regular, open hours, call 727-2391 for an appointment. Ironworker Retirees “Radar” Community Services Program Monthly Breakfast ya’ Warren Lees Sr. Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Road, Room 99A Thursday, June 17 November 12, 1948 ~ Beth Peterson, Director 9:00 a.m. ~ May 27, 2010 218-728-1779 Duluth Grill PAGE 2 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 We can learn from China’s industrial policy, economics ~Press Associates Inc’s Washington Window When it comes to considering China’s role in the world econ- It’s Memorial Day as this is omy, two authors who hail from the right side of the political written and all across this great spectrum -- former Reagan official Clyde Prestowitz and James country parades and other McGregor, ex-chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce observances will remember in the People’s Republic of China -- appear to finally understand those who made the ultimate what workers have known all along: China is an economic com- sacrifice for their country. In petitor that doesn’t play by the rules. big cities and in West Duluth Would that more of the Right Wing -- and much of the left, people will gather to remember too -- understood that. members of our Armed Forces In a book talk at the AFL-CIO, Prestowitz, whose new book who died in the line of duty. traces how the U.S. reversed course in 1950, after almost 200 In small cemeteries in rural years of fostering industry, to push the “free trade” ideology that America a single person will has afflicted the country and cost workers jobs ever since, sin- walk slowly with a small gled out China as a leading practitioner of what can only be planter and a small American make sense to me at the time it’s even attractive to those who called predatory economics. flag to a grave that has been and this many years removed it are thinking “how am I going “Chinese currency is undervalued by 40%” making its visited for decades. makes even less sense for to make a living.” We need to exports to the U.S. cheaper while shutting U.S. products out of In some places a Veteran 54,000 to have lost their lives be able to do better than that for the billion-person market, Prestowitz said. will be looking for a fight for the Vietnam War. young people. We need to be But undervalued currency is just one part of the Chinese cam- because people don’t celebrate And we’re still losing lives able to send them off to their paign, he noted. Memorial Day properly any- to war. And it seems soldiers adult lives with a smile on their The AFL-CIO made the same Chinese currency case during more. In most places the pain that are coming home are car- face and hope in their heart. We the anti-worker GOP Bush regime, but Bush’s U.S. Trade of having lost a loved one will rying more pain home with have enough folks with steely Representative rejected the case 15 minutes after it was filed, strike again and many will them than in wars past. We eyes and jaws set. without even the courtesy of reading it. wonder, “what for.” know how devasting the Viet- If we’re losing lives fighting The Chinese government has an industrial policy, Prestowitz There are almost two dozen nam War was to returning sol- for oil in the Middle East as says, and we do not. It subsidizes favored industries -- every- names on the Northland Viet- diers. many think we are, and we’re thing from textiles to technology -- with tax breaks and require- nam Veterans Memorial on the The wars we’re engaged in pouring it out by millions of ments that foreign partners send their technology to China before Lakewalk that I know. I won- now seem to be affecting the gallons with no end in sight on selling anything there. All this is designed to drive competitors der, Vietnam what for? It didn’t general public less than past our Gulf Coast, you have to out of the market. wars. We’re learned to live question our priorities for this Prestowitz is a business consultant and think-tank denizen with them. We’re conditioned planet. But it’s Memorial Day, who came to town to work on the trade deficit -- it was $21 bil- ~NOTICE~ better now for having been let’s not make anyone mad by lion yearly then -- in Ronald Reagan’s Commerce Department. Next issues of Labor World: given a front row seat to forgetting its true purpose. He’s taken many trips to China and talked with many Chinese June 23 (114th Anniversary; Vietnam on television. But businessmen and government officials for his book. McGregor, July 7, 21; Aug. 4, 18; those who are going “over This Week in History who has his own book about U.S.-China trade, has actually Sept. 1, 22; Oct. 6, 27; there” to fight now don’t seem from worked there. Nov. 10, 23; Dec. 15. to be as well prepared. And www.workdayminnesota.org Chinese leaders, he wrote in the Washington Post, picked LABOR WORLD they come home with more life key industries -- including cars, chemicals, construction, iron June 2, 1952 and steel and science and technology -- that the state will con- (ISSN#0023-6667) is published long scars. Think of a kid semi-monthly except one issue in growing up on a farm in World The U.S. Supreme Court tinue to run. China chose others with state-private ownership December (23 issues). War II’s early years. Lots of ruled that it was illegal for (with the state retaining majority control) to protect by high bar- The known office of publication is farming was still going on then. President Harry Truman to riers around its home billion-person market. They include avia- Labor World, 2002 London Road, These were people who had order the U.S. Army to seize tion, coal, electric power, oil and telecommunications. Room 110, Duluth, MN 55812. Periodicals postage is paid at lived a life of living and dying the nation’s steel mills to Both classes of favored industries get easy loans from Duluth MN 55806. in their daily lives. Today’s avert a strike. Chinese-run banks, benefit from the mandatory technology POSTMASTER: young people are growing up June 3, 1900 transfers both authors cite, use local content requirements and Send address changes to: in fantasy worlds almost. It’s The International Ladies’ rigged bidding rules -- says McGregor -- to protect themselves Labor World, 2002 London Rd., all technology. Are they really Garment Workers Union was and engage in a host of other protectionist actions that violate all Room 110, Duluth, MN 55812 gaining the life lessons that founded when delegates met, trade rules. 6 7 their grand dads did before selected the union’s name, They also cost U.S. companies business and U.S. workers jobs -- especially when the companies, to remain competitive, (218) 728-4469 they went off to war? Will they picked out a union label and FAX: (218) 724-1413 be ready for what seems to be elected officers. close their plants here and move to China. Though neither [email protected] our permanent culture of war? author said it, some U.S. firms are forced to fire U.S. workers www.laborworld.org Unfortunately, joining the June 3, 1918 and move to China when their biggest retail customer, Wal-Mart, ~ ESTABLISHED 1896 ~ military is a good career option A federal law regarding child strongarms them into cost cuts. Owned by Unions affiliated with the for an 18-year old in this terri- labor, enacted two years ear- Prestowitz and McGregor both agree the U.S. cannot depend Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body lier, was declared unconstitu- on corporate executives to do what’s right and stand up to China. Subscriptions: $22 Annually ble economy. It will always be attractive to a certain element tional. A new law was enact- McGregor doesn’t have an answer about what we should do Larry Sillanpa, Editor/Manager in every generation but today ed on February 24, 1919, but next; Prestowitz does. Deborah Skoglund, Bookkeeper it, too, was declared uncon- Board of Directors The non-profit Labor World, Inc. His solution starts with the currency fix, removing China’s stitutional. Finally, in the See China...page 4 Pres./Treas. Mikael Sundin, is the official publication of the 1930s, child labor provisions Painters & Allied Trades 106; Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor were enacted as part of V.P. Paul Iversen, BMWED Body. It is an educational, advo- “Quote, Unquote” cacy newspaper for workers and sweeping labor law reforms, “Clyde Prestowitz’s insight and vision on the global econ- 1710; Sec. Larry Anderson, but child labor remains a Laborers 1091; Al LaFrenier, unions. The views and opinions omy are extraordinary. The Betrayal of American Prosperity submitted and expressed in the problem in the United States, Workers’ United Midwest Bd; especially in the retail and is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Mike Kuitu, Operating Engi- Labor World do not necessarily our nation’s economic challenges. Clyde offers not only a neers 49; Rick McDonald, reflect the views of the paper, its fast food industries and farm- IBEW 31; Jayme McKenna, Board of Directors or staff, the ing. For more on child labor sweeping and surprising narrative of how America became an AFSCME 66; Dan O’Neill, Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor and the courts, go to economic superpower, but also a path forward on how we can Plumbers & Steamfitters 11; Body, its affiliated unions, their http://www.ourdocuments.go restore American greatness. I highly recommend this book.” Steve Risacher, Carpenters 361 officers, or staff. v/doc.php?doc=59 ~Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers of America LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 PAGE 3 Twin Cities MNA nurses will take historic stand for patient safety June 10 ST. PAUL- The Minnesota strike in history occurred when and our profession. The Twin tions. They forced us into tak- public and in the media, Twin Nurses Association announced more than 6,000 Twin Cities Cities hospitals have sent their ing a strike vote.” Cities hospitals are not strug- Friday that more than 12,000 nurses walked off the job for 38 message to our nurses loud and The hospitals and Twin gling financially. Far from it. In Twin Cities nurses will conduct days in 1984. clear - they want to put profits Cities nurses recently agreed to fact, they have told us at the a one-day strike for patient “The hospitals left us with ahead of patients. As nurses, come back to the bargaining bargaining table repeatedly that safety beginning at 7:00 a.m. no choice,” said MNA Presi- we’re not okay with that. We table in hopes of reaching an it’s not that they can’t afford to on Thursday, June 10, 2010. dent Linda Hamilton, a want working conditions that agreement on the labor con- fund our pension - it’s that they The work stoppage will be Children’s Hospital System ensure our patients receive the tracts and pension program that don’t want to.” the largest nursing-related RN. “Our nurses always have safest, highest-quality nursing covers all 12,000 nurses, there- In Duluth and northern strike in U.S. history in number and always will stand up in care possible.” by potentially avoiding the Minnesota 1,400 MNA RNs of nurses involved. The largest order to protect our patients Since mid-March, more June 10 strike. are in negotiations with SMDC than 12,000 Minnesota nurses The chief sticking points in and St. Luke’s hospitals. Those China has no rules...from page 3 have been locked in contract Minnesota negotiations have contracts expire July 1. The 40% advantage. But then Prestowitz says, in essence, if you negotiations with six different been RN-to-patient staffing Metro contract can be a base- can’t beat ‘em, outbid ‘em. Twin Cities hospital systems ratios and the hospitals’ desire line for northern contracts. If China offers incentives running in the billions of dollars, representing 14 hospitals. On to cut the nurses’ pension, For more information visit we should, too, Prestowitz told the group at the AFL-CIO. Turn May 19, more than 9,200 which has been in place since http://www.mnnurses.org the Commerce Department into a sales office for U.S. business: Minnesota nurses voted by a 1962, by more than a third. “’You sell a lot in the U.S. How about making stuff in the U.S.?’ better than 90 percent margin “Twin Cities hospitals are is what the Commerce Secretary should push,” he said. to reject the hospitals' labor dangerously understaffed, and INTERSTATE That includes more “carrots” of tax incentives for creating contract and pension offers, our patients are needlessly suf- jobs in the U.S., but not the “stick,” which several pro-worker thereby authorizing a strike. fering and sometimes even SPUR lawmakers advocate, of raising tax rates on companies that Federal labor laws require dying as a result,” Hamilton export U.S. jobs to China. Oh, by the way, Prestowitz says, the nurses give a formal 10-day said. “As nurses, we’re tired of U.S. must cut its trade deficit. notice to hospitals of their seeing this happen shift after He also advocated “dramatizing the conflict” between “free intent to strike. shift.” trade” theory and economic reality. And that’s where labor “We feel that a one-day, Hamilton added that the comes into the equation. unfair labor practice strike for Twin Cities nurses’ pension “You’re the only guys who speak for America. Your work- patient safety with a notice to fund accounts for roughly 1.14 ers can’t move” from the U.S. to China -- or anywhere else -- our employers that our nurses percent of the hospitals’ nearly 2700 W. Michigan St. while capital can, Prestowitz continued. “The other guys at the will be returning to work the $7 billion in annual revenue, GAS - DIESEL bargaining table -- China, Japan, Germany or whomever -- have very next day has the maxi- and that cost is not the issue. GROCERIES a bargaining strategy” in trade talks, to grab jobs, technology, mum impact on our employers “Twin Cities hospitals made You’ll really like finance or all of those. and the minimum impact on nearly $700 million in profits The U.S. doesn’t. our patients and the communi- during 2009,” Hamilton said. our car wash! “So there’s no criteria to judge agendas” pushed by China, ties we serve,” Hamilton said. “Despite what they say to the or anyone else, “against American interests, because nobody’s “All along, our nurses have defined American interests. Labor can do that, and I’m glad wanted to avoid this situation, you’re there,” Prestowitz says. but the hospitals left us no choice. They literally did not CONSIDER THIS SHOCKING FACT: while China’s respond to a single one of our number one export to the United States is $46 billion of com- nurses' proposals during more puter equipment, the number one export from the U.S. to than two months of negotia- China is waste—$7.6 billion of waste paper and scrap metal.

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PAGE 4 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 Is single-payer for states still possible in Obama’s health care overhaul By Mark Gruenberg states, under certain conditions, years later. And that’s heavy * Vermont extended its state putting pressure on the state PAI Staff Writer to establish their own alterna- lifting for state legislators, the health care system to cover senate’s health committee WASHINGTON--Is single- tive state-run health care sys- Sanders staffers admit. 95% of state residents during chairman to hold hearings. payer government-run health tems, starting in 2017. Sanders is trying to build a the administration of former That lawmaker is from care -- a key cause for 21 inter- States would have to get coalition to change the date for Democratic Gov. Howard Pittsburgh, headquarters of the national unions and 500 other federal waivers to establish the alternative systems to 2014, Dean, a physician. Its legisla- Steelworkers. USW, led by labor organizations and a buga- their own systems. But within too. ture just approved a measure to Canadian native Leo Gerard -- boo for the health insurers and broad guidelines, states could The key requirement states study both single-payer and the whose nation got single-payer the Radical Right -- in the mas- set up whatever they want, must meet, the staffers say, is “public option.” province by province -- is one sive health care overhaul Con- including single-payer. that any alternative health care The public option, single- of the most-outspoken backers gress approved on party-line The state alternative sys- system, including single-payer, payer’s weaker cousin which of single-payer. votes and Democratic Presi- tems must meet certain condi- “must do as much or more” for would have put the federal Meanwhile, Ellen Shaffer, a dent Barack Obama signed? tions, Sanders’ top health care health care users “as the exist- government in competition former congressional staffer Its top senatorial proponent, legislative staffers say. One ing program does,” referring to with the health insurers for specializing in health care who Vermont Independent Bernie condition -- that all states must the exchanges. covering the uninsured, was now co-heads the Center for Sanders, says the answer is in 2014 establish health care “The idea is that if a state dropped from the health care Policy Analysis, warns pro- “yes,” even though the words “exchanges” to cover those puts together a health care plan overhaul at the insistence of a gressives not to sit on their “single payer” aren’t written who otherwise are not covered -- and it could be any type of a “swing” lawmaker, Sen. hands this fall, lest the GOP down. And there are some con- -- may make it harder to switch plan, including single-payer -- Joseph Lieberman, Ind.-Conn. win back Congress and undo ditions that must be met before to single-payer, the staffers as long as they could demon- Otherwise, he would have prior progress. single-payer systems are up admit. strate that it would cover as voted “no,” killing the bill. “While we share the long- and running. After all, they point out, the many people, that the coverage * Ironically, Lieberman’s term goal of a universal Interviews with Sanders, his states would in essence have to would be at least as good, and Connecticut -- which houses ‘Medicare for all’ system, too staff and some experts in the establish one system that year, that it would be at least as headquarters of several large many on the left are ignoring health care field disclose the and then tear it down and affordable, they’d get the waiv- insurers -- is considering alter- the important improvements to law has a provision allowing replace it with another three er from operating the natives, too. Faced with threat- access and quality of care that exchange,” Sanders’ top leg- ened huge health insurance rate the new law will achieve -- and islative aide told Press hikes last year, the Democratic- the policy space that it creates Associates Union News run legislature passed and GOP to go further in the future,” Service. Gov. M. 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Any union member who purchas- Inside Super One Foods es a Triton boat package will receive a free 1-year USA mem- Wade Smith Cloquet, MN bership or 1-year extension of an existing membership, a custom 218-879-6768 • 1-800-967-3421 engine cover featuring the USA logo and a gift certificate of up (218) 724-4507 to $300 to spend on Triton merchandise. Store hours: Mon-Fri 9am - 8pm • Sat 9am - 5:30pm • Sun 11am - 5pm LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 PAGE 5 Pawlenty finds another vulnerable group to attack–it’s injured workers Every time Minnesota’s Re- that injured workers in outstate ers’ compensation cases that An injured worker would website for the State of publican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a areas will have video confer- often leave families of the appear as an image on a screen Minnesota although it is a part guy who is campaigning ences for their court proceed- injured workers strapped finan- at the mercy of camera angles of the Department of Labor & nationwide to be the next U.S. ings rather than being in a court cially even under the best of and not be viewed in the flesh Industry (http://www.dli.mn. president, looks to cut services room with a judge. That is circumstances. as an injured human being. gov/main), which can be statewide rather than increase counter to Minnesota Statute In a letter to elected officials That lose of credibility could reached at 1-800-DIAL-DLI revenue, he has attacked the 176.306, which states the per- and unions asking that they be very detrimental to the case, (1-800-342-5354). There is a most vulnerable people in the son in Krause’s position “shall pressure the Pawlenty adminis- along with the reactions to tes- DLI workers’ comp office in state. The court case that went schedule workers’ compensa- tration to not violate state timony and witnesses, that can Duluth at 733-7810. to the state Supreme Court, tion hearings on as regular a statute and give injured work- swing cases. You can write to: which ruled recently that schedule as maybe practicable ers a fair venue, Attorney Falsani said he will never Office of Administrative Pawlenty had illegally unallot- in no fewer than six widely Robert Falsani said the ruling agree to a video conference Hearings ted funding to a state program, separated locations throughout gives “an unfair advantage to unless directed to by his client. Judge Raymond Krause was filed on behalf of victims the state, including at least four employers and insurers.” He said he has seen far too P.O. Box 64620 of his cuts in a small nutrition locations outside of the seven- Falsani said in 85% of his many situations where destitute St. Paul, MN 55164 program for poor people. His county metropolitan area and workers’ compensation case clients are in a hurry to resolve 1-651-361-7900 or 1-800- long list of attacking the vul- Duluth,...” A permanent office load, the defense lawyer is their case. Others may not even 342-5354 for the Workers’ nerable to spare the well- is to be staffed in Duluth by at from the Twin Cities. be able to afford to travel to the Compensation Hotline. heeled is getting longer even least one compensation judge. “Therefore, if we accept a Twin Cities. He said consider Judge Gerald Arnold is current- video conference, or if the the case of an injured worker You can contact Pawlenty at: though the legislative session is Office of the Governor over, and he’s aimed his sights ly maintaining an office in the client selects a video confer- from the Iron Range or Government Services Build- ence to expedite the hearing International Falls and the long 130 State Capitol outside the Metro region again 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther too. ing. The OAH ruling likely will date, the client will be left as a trek they’d have to the Twin close to the Duluth office. second class citizen,” Falsani Cities. King Jr. Blvd. Pawlenty’s Office of Ad- St. Paul, MN 55155, ministrative Hearings (OAH), An injured worker can wrote. “The defense lawyer The Office of Administra- bypass the video conference will be in the same courtroom tive Hearings conducts admin- 1-800-657-3717, led by his appointed Chief [email protected]. Administrative Law Judge procedure but it could put with judge, utilizing all persua- istrative law hearings for most Raymond Krause, has decided months more of delay in work- sive powers.” state agencies and many local Tell whomever you call to governments, as well as all give injured workers outside hearings on workers’ compen- the Metro area a fair shake and East Central has 30 job seekers to each job sation benefit claims. The better representation from the The latest Job Vacancy by 30-to-1. •Thirty percent offer health office also exercises general State of Minnesota by not forc- Survey from the Minnesota Two years ago, the ratio of care. supervision over state agency ing them into video conferenc- Department of Employment job seekers to job openings in •The median wage for all rulemaking. You will be hard- ing by closing offices. and Economic Development the region was 6-to-1. 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He said USPS han- As Netflix relies on USPS for a vigorous nationwide cam- out if the USPS’ overpayment Saturday pickups and deliver- dles about 80% of e-Bay’s vol- quick delivery and return of its paign against Potter’s plan. of $75 billion in fully funding ies is gaining business backers, ume, worth $1.7 billion annual- DVDs, any changes in USPS’ Potter claims eliminating retiree health care costs before and from an unlikely source: ly to the Postal Service. eBay operating model are likely to Saturday pickup and delivery the workers actually retire -- Internet-based firms. Both sellers particularly like the 6- have an impact on Netflix,” the would save $3 billion yearly. It another scheme inserted in eBay and Netflix have joined day delivery and low rates, he company said in a statement. also would cost 40,158 jobs, Bush’s 2006 postal “reform” businesses denouncing USPS’s said. Take away Saturday, and NALC Vice President including more than 26,400 law -- was eliminated and the plan to cut back to 5-day serv- they’d switch to UPS and George Mignosi says it’s not among Letter Carriers, and money refunded. ice. They said such a cut would FedEx, driving up prices and just new media firms who are 10,000 among rural carriers. The Postal Rate Commis- drive up costs, drive away cus- driving away business for his unhappy with Postmaster Potter says the Postal Ser- sion, which must send its own tomers and cost them -- and the firm and the service. “A move General Jack Potter’s plan to vice is $7 billion-plus in the red recommendations to Congress Postal Service -- business. to 5-day service negatively cut out Saturday delivery, close yearly due to a large (12%- about Potter’s plan, also ques- That’s exactly the message affects a growth business. As hundreds of post offices and 16%) drop in mail volume, tions his numbers. Its chair- NALC, nationally and locally, eBay grows, the Postal Service fire -- or reduce to part-time thanks to the Great Recession. woman estimates eliminating is taking to Congress, too. grows,” Sleiman told the paper. status -- thousands of workers. Potter, named Postmaster Saturday delivery would save Sharif Sleiman, global pro- Netflix sang a similar tune. “The catalogue business is General by a board appointed just over half of the $3 billion “Out of an estimated 80 billion an important part of the USPS by GOP President George W. Potter claimed. model,” Mignosi told the Bush, thinks volume will con- USPS “faces a crisis every Elections come early with Postal Record. “Companies tinue to shrink. His solution is bit as challenging as the one from page 1 such as LL Bean, JC Penney an to cut service and people. that prompted our members to Primary August 10... Harry and David not only send NALC President Fredric take to the streets” in the great four years ago, is being challenged by one of her attorneys, out catalogues” through the Rolando counters that basing and successful 1970 postal longtime prosecutor Mark Rubin. He, his colleagues and inves- mail “but also use parcel post postal volume on the current strike, Rolando admitted. tigators in the office organized a union, AFSCME Local 3761, as one method for delivery of shortly after Ford was seated. They are affiliates of the Duluth their goods. They are not Oil spill worse than Katrina AFL-CIO Central Labor Body. Ford, meanwhile, still has a lot of happy with the prospect of no ...from page 8 support from people who were thrilled she knocked off Mitchell. Saturday delivery.” say union leaders County commissioner races will draw interest as that board Consumers should not be the hook when the company complained that spending the has not endeared itself to the electorate. Dennis Fink in Duluth’s happy about it either, Mignosi extra money was unnecessary because there would be no acci- District 1 will be challenged again by Frank Jewell, a former added: It could cost them a lot dents. AFSCME member and city councilor, who lost to Fink by only of money. That’s because of all Hammond and Magee said a broad-based movement to fight about 50 votes in 2006 for the central Duluth seat. the bills they pay through the BP and go after other abusive corporations would be bigger and In Itasca County, Leo Trunt will run for the District 3 seat he mail -- often, in this economy, stronger than it is now if the media were not doing such a poor served from 1991 to 2002. He is a 33 year member of IBEW just before the deadline the job of explaining “just how serious this crisis is.” Local 31, and a job steward for 25 years. seller imposes before charging Hammond asked: “Why does the media not demand BP pro- Candidates have until June 3rd to withdraw from any race late fees. Add a day, or in prac- vide pictures or actual footage of the leaks? The company has they may have filed for. tical terms, the entire weekend, submarines and all kinds of sophisticated technology down You can access all the filings at http://candidates.sos. to delivery and those bills there. They’ve come forth with nothing…President Obama was state.mn.us/CandidateFiling Search.aspx down here and offered all kinds of resources. Why aren’t they taking advantage of them?” John Wojcik writes for The When You Plant a Tree, Consider Its Future People’s World.

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 PAGE 7 Louisiana labor leaders say oil spill will end up being worse than Katrina By John Wojcik Orleans AFL-CIO and leader would mean at least 75-90 days view with the World, Ham- Magee and Chris NEW ORLEANS (May 23) of the International Brother- more of oil gushing into the mond says he’s starting to hear Hammond, the local's secretary - Labor leaders in New Orleans hood of Electrical Workers in Gulf.” And “that brings us to the same thing from local treasurer, told the World they say the oil spill will be worse the city. “And once it gets into hurricane season and very pos- workers about the oil’s impact. were both “first responders” for workers in this region than the marshland it will become a sibly oil washing up all over “I’m hearing already about after Katrina. They returned to Hurricane Katrina was almost bigger catastrophe than this region.” people with strange rashes, and work on the docks within three five years ago and that the Katrina,” he predicted. Hurricane Katrina literally there are whole stretches near weeks after the storm to begin major media, both locally and “Tiger,” as he is known in smashed New Orleans and dis- the shores and elsewhere where the work of rebuilding the port. nationally, are actually down- the labor movement and on job placed hundreds of thousands you can already smell the oil. “I was lucky," Hammond playing its significance. sites all over New Orleans, of people all along the Gulf Fish, animals and sea gulls are said, “because I could live with "First they said it was a fully expects workers here to Coast. It also exposed rescue dying and there is not enough family 35 miles north of here. thousand barrels a day, then be hit with a “double wham- workers – including union vol- publicity about it. It’s a matter Other workers didn’t have a 5,000, now 200,000 and the oil my” on top of Katrina: “Even if unteers who rushed to the of the people’s health and of place to live and even today is getting closer every day," they succeed in building a side- stricken city from all over the their lives. some of our guys have their said Robert "Tiger" Hammond, by-side well” to divert the oil nation – to hazardous waste “And then, if the oil reaches families living as far away as president of the Greater New from the exploded well, “that and disease threats. In an inter- those marshes, more than Texas.” 100,000 people will be almost Both were visibly shaken as immediately out of work. This, they discussed the potential on top of Katrina, and on top of impact of the oil spill on dock the economic depression workers here. already going on, is a lot for “The labor movement is workers to have to handle,” he working, through the Central said. Labor Council, with communi- David Magee, International ty and environmental groups to Longshoremen’s Association try to deal with this,” Magee Local 3000 vice president, said said. “We are going to push environmentalists and others hard to expand our influence in the union consulted warn that the elections this year,” Tiger all major commerce here is in Hammond, the AFL-CIO imminent danger, and a lot leader, said. “Candidates more people could be thrown backed by labor won most of out of jobs. “We have a ‘heads the elections in the southern up’ that this spill will affect our part of the state last time industry adversely in the next around and we will push hard two or three weeks,” Magee to elect more who come out explained. “We have spoken to strong for tougher regulations the membership and we are all on the oil industry.” trying to do our best to be pre- Magee said he hoped people pared.” “will learn from this the impor- Union workers are already a tance of regulating these big key to the effort to minimize companies. There is already (Left-to-right) Firm partners, Sean Quinn and Jim Peterson, receive award from Al Netland environmental damage and reliable information that in a keep ships flowing through the worst-case scenario we could mouth of the Mississippi River, be looking at a total evacuation which empties into the Gulf of of New Orleans. According to the AFL-CIO Central Labor Body's Mexico. “Something so terrible as “There are cleaning stations that would be the result of BP’s Community Services Program, here's why: where our members are already cutting corners and not wanting cleaning the oil off the hulls of to pay the $250,000 it would “Falsani, Balmer, Peterson, Quinn & Beyer has a long history of ships before they enter and pol- have cost them to put shut-off supporting the United Way of Greater Duluth, DADs Golf Tournament, lute the river,” Magee said. valves underneath the oil plat- Despite this effort, “It won’t be forms,” Magee added. And the Duluth AFL-CIO Annual Labor Day Picnic (they not only pay long before major shippers take Tiger Hammond reminded for the sweet corn, the lawyers attend the picnic and serve the corn their cargo elsewhere. That will reporters it was GOP President devastate us and hurt the entire George W. Bush who let BP off to the picnic goers); they sponsor a free Worker's Compensation national economy by driving See Oil spill...page 7 Seminar every year, as well as, many other labor-related projects. up prices,” he added.

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