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Local Lodge E-Board Meeting Dec. 16, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.

Stewards meeting is on Dec. 19, 2009

Retirees Business Meeting

Jan. 7, 2010

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Unions of the AFL-CIO Check this out if you would like to know more about unions.

Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.

David C. Korten, in When Corporations Rule the World

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."

Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Woodrow Wilson's closest adviser, Col. Edward M. House dated November 21, 1933

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We had to fight to get where we are today!

1935	National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL
1936	AFL and CIO create labor's Non-Partisan League and help President Roosevelt win re-election to a second term
1937	Auto Workers win sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters wins contract with Pullman Co.
1938	Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

This link is for Freightliner/Western-Star/Daimler employees that have been laid off. Trade Act info.

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LL1005 Web Steward

Daryl Payne

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