Breaking SCOTUS news from 2-14-16

Many of us have heard the news about Justice Scalia's death this weekend. This will likely have a profound effect on a number of important issues related to working people across our country.

UTLA: Strong Dues Hike Support Is A Message To Privatizers And Billionaires - 02-12-16

More tax incentive dollars coming for California based productions 2-8-16

Thanks to our efforts at passing Assembly Bill 1839 in 2014, another round of incentive dollars is up for grabs: http://tinyurl.com/h44zabl

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Breakfast With Congressman John Lewis

From the Los Angeles County Federation Of Labor, read this news story about the upcoming MLK Labor Breakfast with Congressman John Lewis.

Click this link: http://launionaflcio.org/2015/1133626/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-labor-breakfast-with-congressman-john-lewis.html

Union Organizing

When workers have a union, they have a voice on the job. Working together, they negotiate good wages and working conditions so they can provide a better life for their families. Union members have higher wages, greater job stability, retirement security, and access to quality healthcare for their families. It is no wonder that 57 million Americans who are not union members say they want to be part of one.

The Great Austerity Experiment Has 'Failed Spectacularly'

Austerity, AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers said in a tweet yesterday, is "seeing a drowning man and pushing him under....[it] destroys worker bargaining power and replaces social insurance with Wall St. fees."
The Center for American Progress (CAP), echoing Silvers' sentiment, is calling on Congress to abandon job-killing cuts and "grand bargains"—which aren't so "grand" for America's working families—and focus on what the country really needs: jobs.

Can’t Candy Coat the Wage Gap Between Men and Women

Want to Build the Middle Class? Make Sure Workers Can Easily Form and Join Unions

We've all seen the charts. As union membership rates go down, so goes the middle class and people's ability to bargain for living wages and a voice on the job.

Hundreds of Working Families Converge on Capitol, Demand Legislators Stand Up for Taxpayers by Ending $700M Corporate Gravy Train Giveaway

SB 434 (Hill) Reforms Wasteful Enterprise Zone Program, Requires Tax Dollars Be Tied to Job Creation
www.endthecorporategravytrain.com

Ryan Budget Highlights House Republicans' Extreme Demands

It's back. The Ryan–GOP budget that gives seniors "coupons" to pay for health care and guts Medicaid and public investment to enrich millionaires and billionaires was once again proposed by the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today.
Less than six months ago, voters rejected the Ryan–Romney agenda of more prosperity for the super wealthy at the expense of the rest of America's working families, yet Ryan can't seem to resist this austerity plan. And this time, the Ryan–GOP budget is "on steroids."

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Breaking SCOTUS news from 2-14-16