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Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan fired the nation’s air traffic controllers after they walked out on strike, signaling an escalation in the war on workers and the middle class that is still being waged three decades later.

On Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., Georgeto... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/13 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:19:49 For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation.

But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/12 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:46:50
By Howard Mintz hmintz@mercurynews.com


For at least eight years, Santana Alvarado worked as a dishwasher and cook at a Chili's Restaurant in Concord, typically showing up for the job each day around 7 a.m.

But, based on his sworn testimony in an ongoing legal battle, Alvarado had trouble g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/11 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:16:52 Thirty Southern California car wash workers have become the first in the business to sign a union contract -- and organizers are hoping more will follow suit.

The CLEAN Carwash Campaign announced on Tuesday that employees at the Bonus Car Wash in Santa Monica signed a two-year agreement that will... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/10 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:05:25 SANAA, Yemen (AP) — American drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine al-Qaida-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday.

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By Associated Press, Published: October 10
FRESNO, Calif. — California has a new law that will allow state regulators to automatically certify union elections by farmworkers if they determine growers used threats or intimidation toward workers in the election process.

The law, signed by Gov. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/8 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:47:19 Gov. Jerry Brown has outlawed the open carrying of unloaded handguns in California, signing a bill late Sunday night that makes the practice that had been popular with some gun rights advocates a misdemeanor in the state.

The bill, AB144 by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge (... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/7 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:41:28 Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"

Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/6 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:30:33
Here's the naked truth: San Francisco will once again be the butt of national ridicule -- or a beacon of freedom of expression -- depending on your point of view. The latest issue? Public nudity.

Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced legislation today that would require nudists to cover their seat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/5 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:54:31

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Officials in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried voted late Thursday to prohibit the flying of the Confederate flag on city-owned poles.

After a lively 2 1/2-hour public hearing, the Lexington City Council voted 4-1 to al... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/4 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:01:54 by Mike Hall, Aug 24, 2011

Workers deserve a “fair, clear system for protecting their rights and making themselves heard in union elections,” four top Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) strongly supporting the board’s proposed changes in the way ele... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/3 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:32:10
By Thomas Peele and Daniel Willis
Contra Costa Times



A hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year — the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing 200,000 publ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/2 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:15:51 By Cynthia Gorney




Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to pre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/augie38/1 Thu, 19 May 2011 19:15:25