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Brian Knight Benefit
You are invited to a Barbeque to Benefit Brian Knight
When;
Memorial Day Monday May 25, 2009
Time:
2:00 p.m.-???
Where:
Todd and Bobbi Banta's House
16284 Midway Road
Nampa, ID 83651
(off Karcher Road)
What it is:
As you may know Brian Knight was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. We at Nampa Fire Department are having a benefit barbeque to off-set some of his medical expenses. Please join us on Monday for a day of food, music and fun. Raffle tickets will be available for $1 each or 6 for $5. They can be used for raffle items, giant popsicles, cake walk and refreshments (this includes alcohol.) Food will be provided to all but donations will gladly be accepted
If you have an item to donate or have any questions please contact
JJ Malott @ 407-5778 or
Bobbi Banta @ 703-1764
Karl Malott
Fire Chief
Nampa Fire Department
1103 2nd Street South
Nampa, ID 83651
Voice: (208) 468-5770
Fax: (208) 468-5780
E-mail: mailto:malottk@ci.nampa.id.us
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Stop Starbucks
1. Sign the Memo to Howard Schultz
Schultz has said if workers "had faith in me and my motives, they wouldn’t need a union.” Help us reach 50,000 signatures, and let's send a clear message to Schultz that corporations should support unionization and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Dear Mr. Schultz (Starbucks CEO),
You have repeatedly intimidated and terminated your employees for seeking to unionize, taking a page from Wal-Mart's unethical playbook. That does not foster trust among workers.
We insist you allow your workers to organize and stop opposing the Employee Free Choice Act.
Instead of allowing your workers to unionize and negotiate fairer wages, health benefits, and hours, Starbucks spends millions in legal fees settling labor complaints that would expose your atrocious labor practices. That does not foster trust among workers.
Rather than heed workers' pleas, Starbucks has proposed a stripped down version of the Employee Free Choice Act that would make unionization more difficult. That does not foster trust among workers.
Quit following Wal-Mart's anti-union example and give your workers what they want, Mr. Schultz. They will not trust you until you do.
Signed by 11,206 people. Add your name,
Click on the link.....
http://stopstarbucks.com/
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Employee Free Choice Act
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Thursday 16th April 2009 08:53 PM
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Unions step up mass mobilization for Employee Free Choice Act
By Mark Gruenberg
12 April 2009
| WASHINGTON - The nation’s unions stepped up their mass mobilization to pressure Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, working over the two-week legislative recess to lobby lawmakers for the pro-worker bill. They unveiled a new round of commercials to run nationwide for it, while enlisting African-American leaders as key allies. |
The object of the drive, which ratcheted up as Congress left town April 4 for its two-week Easter-Passover recess, was to garner the needed 60 senators to overcome a planned GOP-led filibuster against the measure, labor’s #1 legislative priority.
The Employee Free Choice Act would help level the playing field between workers and bosses in union organizing and in bargaining first contracts. It would do so by writing into law that workers -- not bosses -- get to choose the way their union is recognized in the workplace: Through a verified majority sign-up of authorization cards or through an NLRB-run election.
The bill also would mandate arbitration between the two sides if they can’t agree on a first contract within 120 days of starting bargaining, would increase penalties for labor law-breaking, and would make it easier to get court orders against violators.
But the unionists not only have to lobby several Republicans to join to break the GOP talkathon, but also must convince several wavering Democrats -- notably Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb. -- to back an up-or-down vote on the bill, rather than letting the GOP talk it to death.
The African-American lobbying, coordinated by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, includes both secular organizations, such as the NAACP, and African-American churches. All convened in a national conference call LCCR organized April 8.
Their drive will focus on those states, including Arkansas, Louisiana and California, where African-Americans are a high proportion of the Democratic electorate. And it comes just after the bill’s most virulent opponent, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, flew in business leaders from around the country to specifically lobby against it in presentations to members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The African-Americans’ campaign for the law will focus on its economic benefits, especially to minorities, by pointing out the difference between wages of unionized minority-group member workers and non-union minority group member workers. The unionized workers are also far more likely to have health care coverage and pensions on the job, LCCR executive director Wade Henderson told conference call participants.
“Those of us in the civil rights community know the Employee Free Choice Act is more than a labor bill,” Henderson told colleagues. “Labor rights are civil rights.”
If the bill is painted as just a management-vs-unions issue, it loses, he warned.
“This is a simple fix to a loophole in labor law,” added Arlene Holt-Baker, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President and the highest-ranking African-American in the union federation. “It would let workers express their choice in an environment without intimidation” by bosses and their anti-union campaigns, she added.
“For African-Americans, we must make this a priority,” added Bill Lucy, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer and head of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. A weakened union movement, which has been a key player in civil rights causes, diminishes the chance that African-Americans can achieve their other political goals, he pointed out.
Unionists also emphasized economics. The commercials by American Rights At Work discussed fairness and justice on the job -- contrasting that with Wall Street greed.
The AFL-CIO planned more than 300 events nationwide during the recess, plus individual campaigning by union members. "Massive grassroots mobilization shows working people really want and need passage of real labor law reform in 2009," federation President John J. Sweeney said beforehand. "Without workers' freedom to bargain for better wages and benefits, our economy can't be rebuilt for everyone."
Notable events included a rally in Maine featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed in America, discussing how unionization boosts wages and benefits, a 150-person rally outside Lincoln’s office in Arkansas, and hundreds of hand-written letters and cards for the legislation delivered to offices of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
Specter, a former co-sponsor, publicly defected from the law. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both R-Maine, oppose it but are seen as persuadable.
One new TV ad, “Fabric of America,” was shot in a flag factory that uses union workers. “It’s an idea that makes America strong. It’s a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work. It’s health insurance when you’re sick or injured. It’s job security to provide for your family. It’s the fabric of a sound economy. It built the middle class. And it’s what the Employee Free Choice Act is all about: Letting workers choose to join a union to earn better pay and benefits. The Employee Free Choice Act. It's time our economy worked for everyone again.” The other, entitled “Greed” contrasts “the Wall Street way of doing business -- getting rich is everything” with its credo to “Don’t let workers get ahead.” It concludes: “Don’t let them get away with it: Tell Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act now.”
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Holly Johnson
It is with great saddness to inform you that Holly Johnson, wife of Local 804 member Rob Johnson, passed away on April 3, 2009. Holly had been battling cancer for the past four years and passed away in the comforts of her and Rob's home on their fifth wedding anniversary. Funeral arrangements have been made and will take place at The Church of the Nazarene in Nampa, on April 10, 2009 at one o'clock. Please keep Rob and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
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Brian Knight Benefit
Posted
On: May 21, 2009 (09:53:34)
You are invited to a Barbeque to Benefit Brian Knight
When;
Memorial Day Monday May 25, 2009
Time:
2:00 p.m.-???
Where:
Todd and Bobbi Banta's House
16284 Midway Road
Nampa, ID 83651
(off Karcher Road)
What it is:
As you may know Brian Knight was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. We at Nampa Fire Department are having a benefit barbeque to off-set some of his medical expenses. Please join us on Monday for a day of food, music and fun. Raffle tickets will be available for $1 each or 6 for $5. They can be used for raffle items, giant popsicles, cake walk and refreshments (this includes alcohol.) Food will be provided to all but donations will gladly be accepted
If you have an item to donate or have any questions please contact
JJ Malott @ 407-5778 or
Bobbi Banta @ 703-1764
Karl Malott
Fire Chief
Nampa Fire Department
1103 2nd Street South
Nampa, ID 83651
Voice: (208) 468-5770
Fax: (208) 468-5780
E-mail: mailto:malottk@ci.nampa.id.us
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New Video Gallery
Posted
On: Nov 02, 2008 (11:01:33)
Brothers and Sisters check out the new video gallery that features the PFFI Fall Education Seminar. New web site manager Luke Pichette (Local 710) worked very hard to get it up and running. It features our Special Guest Speaker Paul Loeb's discussion on Idaho Politics and please DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!!
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Social Security
Posted
On: Oct 29, 2008 (18:01:27)
Nothing is for sure, but I thought it a good idea to let everybody know whats going on up north. I have been working for some time to opt our union out of Social Security. It has taken about a year to figure out what is needed to opt out. The state controller has been trying to steer me away for some time with BS and false information, however I have found a lawyer with facts that prove we should be able to get out. More information will follow, but I wanted to make sure that nobody else calls the state controllers office or Social Security until I get this figured out. Those to groups are very sneaky with information and defenitely do not want us to get out. This could take a lawsuit and several $$$$ to get finished, so I wont know complete details on how to do it until its close to being resolved. This could be a useless post, but unless the state controller can find record of a referendum vote(if you have had one you cant opt out of SS, which I don't think anyone in the state has done) we can do it. There is more information on this than I can put into a post, so I will leave it at that.
Submitted By Luke Pichette
Local 710 Vice President
District 1 Representative
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