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Omaha Steve

(99,896 posts) Tue Jun 26, 2012, 08:26 PM Jun 2012

Huff Post: AFL-CIO To Highlight Outsourcing Of Jobs, Pressure Candidates In Coming Weeks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/afl-cio-outsourcing-campaign_n_1618508.html

Posted: 06/22/2012 10:59 am Updated: 06/22/2012 11:11 am

The nation's largest federation of labor unions is planning a series of events around the country aimed at forcing candidates to address the offshoring of American jobs.

Billed as America Wants to Work, the AFL-CIO's campaign will kick off on Friday in Milwaukee, Wis., where Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) is scheduled to join members of the United Auto Workers union in a show of support for padlock manufacturer Master Lock for its role in employing local workers. Baldwin is a candidate for a Senate seat.

The labor federation will put on another event criticizing corporate labor practices in Allentown, Penn., on Friday, when a local T-Mobile call center will close, eliminating 600 jobs. The company has said it is consolidating 24 call centers into 17; the AFL-CIO claims the jobs will be relocated in the Philippines and Latin America.

In all, the AFL-CIO hopes to host nearly a hundred events around the country by mid-July, praising certain politicians while criticizing others, said spokeswoman Amaya Tune.

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Huff Post: AFL-CIO To Highlight Outsourcing Of Jobs, Pressure Candidates In Coming Weeks (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2012 OP

NAFTA was bad. How many know that another wage-lowering, anti-union, let's-send-more-jobs-to-foreign AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #1

AnotherMcIntosh

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1. NAFTA was bad. How many know that another wage-lowering, anti-union, let's-send-more-jobs-to-foreign

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Tue Jun 26, 2012, 10:14 PM

Jun 2012

-countries "free-trade" agreement is in the works?

Rmoney supports it. As does the Chamber of Commerce. As does the Administration (but apparently in a quiet way).

Trans-Pacific negotiations have been taking place throughout the Obama presidency. The deal is strongly supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the top lobbying group for American corporations. Obama's Republican opponent in the 2012 presidential elections, Mitt Romney, has urged the U.S. to finalize the deal as soon as possible.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html

What better way is there to make more money for the super-rich when killing American jobs?

Now the AFL-CIO is scheduling events throughout the country to force candidates to address the offshoring of American jobs.

Yet, where is the opposition to the offshoring of American jobs from the politicians? Don't they already know about it? The absence of such oppositon is a sign that the governmental system in this country has changed. Whether it is called a coup or not, the governmental system that they taught all of us about in grammer school no longer exists.

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