Joe's Union Review welcomes another Labor blog, a letter to the editor that made my day, SEIU performs ABBA at John McCain camp

Was noticing where my links were coming from and saw a new blog out there, I'm used to the US Chamber of Commerce and other anti-union agencies websites popping up unexpected, but it's always a pleasure to find yet another person who has been motivated enough to jump into the action and help promote our struggle, from the upcoming election and explaining that in his field videography, The Employee Free Choice Act is as necessary as in my own, the construction industry, so without further ado, a big welcome to Decision List, who's latest post is a great music video.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON - NATALIE MERCHANT

Though many folks try to make things more complex than they really are, it really always comes down to a simple question.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Hope to be reading more, and I hope he checks out Broadcast Union News, who has a lot of entertainment and broadcasting news.

Speaking of broadcasts, UnionGal posted a great video on her site, from 7/17, of a SEIU(Service Employees) theater production outside of John McCains headquarters on her site called "McCain as the "Loophole King"

Last week SEIU protested outside of McCain's campaign headquarters in Virginia. How they got ABBA to join them, I'll never know...

Richard at Union Review and Kirsten at UnionGal have been crazy busy, Richard attended Netroots Nation and Kirsten is running for office in DC, I will eventually be posting about all that sooner or later, I'm still reading through it, but I have a ton of stuff on my plate and a guy I worked with has passed away, a great guy who would give you the shirt off his back if you were in need, I feel really bad, I'm gonna miss him.

So I'm kinda doing all sorts of stuff, including getting more information about The Employee Free Choice Act petition for my own local to sign up, I'm meeting with the NYS AFL-CIO rep here in NYC tomorrow to get that stuff. Found a great article from over a year ago entitled "Who's afraid of The Employee Free Choice Act" from Common Dreams.

It's also nice to see Omaha Steve is still posting away at Democratic Underground, especially a letter to the editor he spotted from a The Providence Journal :

Brian Wilder: What union have brought us

01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008

It’s tiresome reading such nonsense as the letter from Steve Lemois (June 18) who claims to know what unions are doing.

Here are some of the programs and laws that union workers have fought hard to create, many of which we still protect from regular attack by wealthy interests: Social Security, Medicare, the 40-hour work week, overtime pay, child-labor laws, family/medical leave with employer-paid insurance, unemployment insurance, temporary-disability insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, and the minimum-wage law. And we have much more hard work ahead of us, such as the need for affordable access to health care for everyone and human-rights protections for workers making our products both here and abroad.

We union workers sure do manage to do an awful lot for non-union people while just “looking after our own behinds,” which Mr. Lemois claims is all we do. Can he even be serious?

BRIAN WILDER

Cranston

Spread the word people, the American worker, the heart of the labor movement, will not go down without a fight.

That's about it for now, sorry for the lapse in covering recent news, maybe if we had a few more writers, ah, but we can all just dream a little...

Some quick links from Democratic Underground to keep you in the know

While I'm busy take a look and get involved over at Democratic Underground

	Discussion Topic	Author	Start time | Last reply	Replies	Recs	Views
	Do You Remember The "Look for the Union Label" Song?	eleny	Wed Apr-23-08 10:01 PM	12	3	131
	Report data shows strong labor market for engineers	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 09:57 PM	11	0	72
	UFW co-founder left mark on county (documentary "Harvest of Shame" by Edward R. Murrow)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 09:33 PM	1	2	34
	South Africa: Union refuses to unload Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 09:22 PM	2	1	28
	The Last Time I Saw César	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 09:02 PM	0	1	29
	MGM Mirage Fights Workers' Effort To Form Union (filed unfair labor practice charges)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:52 PM	0	0	16
	Bill would give TAs at NYU (any US University) right to unionize	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:48 PM	1	1	19
	Building Construction Trades Provide Millions of Dollars For Diabetes Research	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:48 PM	0	0	16
	OSHA Fines Guam Firm $135,000 For Safety Violations	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:35 PM	0	0	15
	House Panel to Examine Cintas Safety Record	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:32 PM	0	0	18
	OSHA sets deadline for company's appeal in worker's death ($16,800)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:29 PM	0	0	15
	Ted Kennedy Wades In (shabbily reversed by Bush appointees during the Brown decision)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:22 PM	0	1	71
	Writers Guild, Hollywood studios clash after strike	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:12 PM	0	2	29
	Michigan State, 1,400 grad student TAs reach deal to avoid walkout	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 08:09 PM	0	0	18
	Starbucks Union (IWW) files more charges against Starbucks in Grand Rapids, Michigan	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:51 PM	0	0	15
	Smaller Actors Union Delays Contract Talks to May 5	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:41 PM	0	0	15
	Japanese union backs Pacific Beach boycott	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:35 PM	0	1	26
	Missouri Department Of Labor Applauds Supreme Court Ruling Resulting In Felony Conviction	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:30 PM	0	0	43
	CA Labor Commissioner Cites Riverside & San Bernardino Restaurants for Labor Violations	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:27 PM	0	0	14
	A Chinese labor activist who won’t lie down	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:24 PM	0	0	15
	Equal Pay – Not Yet	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 07:00 PM	0	1	20
	School Custodians Say ‘No’ to Aramark	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:58 PM	0	0	53
	Episode 44 USW POWERcast!	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:51 PM	0	0	10
	The Hill: Doomed labor bill becomes fodder for campaign attacks	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:38 PM	0	0	29
	Unions helping close equal pay gap	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:35 PM	0	0	17
	Aloha pilots seek restraining order	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:34 PM	1	0	48
	Injunction lifted in nurses' dispute with SEIU	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:30 PM	0	0	18
	Ohio Union Members Ask McCain for Real Solutions (+ video)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:24 PM	0	2	24
	Strong Union Turnout in Pennsylvania Primary (31 percent)	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 06:17 PM	0	0	31
	AT&T call center workers opt for union	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 02:30 PM	7	1	77
	La-Z-Boy, Whirlpool Moving Hundreds Of Jobs To Mexico	Omaha Steve	Wed Apr-23-08 02:28 PM	6	0	144
	MGM Mirage To Lay Off Up To 400 Workers	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 10:51 PM	1	0	6
	Gas Workers in New Mexico, Firefighters in Alabama and More Join AFL-CIO Unions	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 08:47 PM	0	0	3
	More Layoffs, Fewer Hours on the Job and Teachers Forced to Take Second Jobs	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 08:44 PM	0	1	6
	Why so stubborn? (Right-to-work proponents risk more than they might gain)	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 05:54 PM	1	0	52
	Eric Lee: Dramatic struggle by Russian miners - appeal for help	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 11:36 AM	0	1	20
	Today in labor history April 19 (bomb destroys the Oklahoma City federal building)	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 10:53 AM	5	0	53
	Are you making At Least $20 An Hour?	Omaha Steve	Tue Apr-22-08 09:26 AM	4	4	182
	AP: American Axle strike hits 2 more General Motors factories	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 09:18 PM	0	0	21
	W Post: Election E-Mails Can End Your Term in the Office (job)	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 09:13 PM	0	0	59
	NYC Disabled Ironworker Pushes For Disaster Healthcare Legislation	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 08:55 PM	0	0	22
	Union leaders face off for Obama, Clinton in Pennsylvania	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 08:49 PM	0	0	27
	Tough times for American workers	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 08:44 PM	0	3	41
	I'll only have a few posts between now and Thursday afternoon	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 08:37 PM	2	0	51
	Workers Memorial Day Materials Include McCain’s Voting Record on Job Safety	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 08:35 PM	0	0	24
	Today in labor history April 21	Omaha Steve	Mon Apr-21-08 06:53 AM	0	0	18