How to Avoid Taxing the Wrong People

Brace yourself. In coming weeks you’ll hear there’s no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on [the] middle class and decimating what’s left of the federal government’s discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.
“We” must make these sacrifices, it will be said, in order to deal with our mushrooming budget deficit and cumulative debt.

Help Spread the News About the Good Work Union Members Do Every Day

We're fighting back against the negative stories the national news media is putting out about our movement by establishing a Message Movers team—folks who are willing to push back against biased stories about unions through social media and email.
Can you join in? You're a powerful voice in making sure that the great work of the union movement is being spread far and wide.
Become a message mover.

The Advantages of Shooting in California

California is famous for several reasons. In the last fifty years, the state has spawned two presidents. It is far and away the most populous state in the union, and it is also the ninth largest economy in the world, besting India and Canada. Every year, tens of millions of international and domestic visitors come to California. Many of the visitor come as tourists who come to the Golden State to explore the vast beaches in the south, the beautiful bay in the middle or the largess of the redwoods in the north.

Who Doesn’t Want to ‘Fix the Senate'? Lobbyists

Members: Update Your Current Email Address!

In order to login to the members only areas of this website, the email address we have on file must match the one that you're trying to login with. Once you're logged in you'll be able to access and edit your contact information, your skills and work preference choices, put yourself on, or take yourself off the availability list and pay any invoices that are available for you to pay.

Top Five Legislative Victories for Workers in 2012

Protecting Families from Foreclosures. This year, California became the first state to enact reforms that ban the practice of foreclosing on a family seeking a loan modification (AB278, SB900). These bills also increased penalties for “robo-signing,” or the filing of false mortgage documents, and required banks to create a single point of contact for those seeking a loan modification.

Upcoming Local 728 Skills Training Classes

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Wash Your Car at a Union Car Wash!

After 7 years of organizing efforts, there are now 21 Union car washes in Southern California. Show your support by letting these car washes keep your car clean.

Click here to see the lists of who to patronize and who not to.

We'll All Miss Unions When They're Gone

Unionists have never enjoyed true security in America. During the early nineteenth century, they got hauled into court for “conspiring to restrain trade.” In the heyday of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, they got accused of fomenting violence and revolution. During the first decade of the Cold War, they had to purge their ranks of radical activists or be slammed as “soft on Communism.” Since the 1970s, they have been condemned as a greedy and privileged “special interest”—even as their numbers and political clout keep dropping.

Don't Cut Medicare Benefits—Tackle Drug Prices

This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post by Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center.

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