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Topic: Nonpartisan Solidarity Union

	USCCB - Called to Global Solidarity: International Challenges for U.S. Parishes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In pursuit of solidarity, Pope John Paul II calls for a worldwide effort to promote development, an effort that “involves sacrificing the positions of income and of power enjoyed by the more developed economies” in the interest of “an overall human enrichment to the family of nations” (CA, no. 52).
		Solidarity is action on behalf of the one human family, calling us to help overcome the divisions in our world.
		Solidarity demands responses and initiatives that are as rich and varied as our relationships, responsibilities, and lives.
	www.nccbuscc.org /sdwp/international/globalsolidarity.htm (6006 words)

	The ILWU Story - The New Union
		The result of the vote, as certified by the NLRB after three days of attempted polling, was an unprecedented show of union strength and solidarity: of the 26,965 employees eligible to vote, each and every one heeded the union's call to boycott and not one ballot was cast.
		The union made these guarantees to industry in exchange for an unprecedented series of benefits for the workers, designed to protect them against the negative impact of machines on their daily work and job security.
		Union members eventually shut down all Washington and Oregon ports to participate in a 1989 meeting and demonstration against Rayonnier - and assured future operations would be handled by ILWU labor.
	www.ilwu19.com /history/the_ilwu_story/the_new_union.htm (3574 words)

	Union Corruption Update 5.19
		union officials took advantage of their positions on the board of the union-owned insurance group, Ullico, to buy its stock before its price was set to increase.
		But because most union pension funds held far more shares of Ullico stock than the individual directors, they could not participate in the buyback and were forced to watch their stock plummet along with Global Crossing's.
		In addition to the union embezzlement charge, Ryan is also charged with using her position in the BP payroll dept. to make false time entries for work that she had not, in fact, performed, in violation of U.S.C. 18, Sec.
	www.nlpc.org /olap/UCU3/05_19.htm (2507 words)

	Events
		As founder and director of the Crusade for Citizen Participation she was the catalyst behind the nonpartisan civic movement that registered and mobilized millions of Chileans to participate in the plebiscite of October 5,1988.
		Jacek Kuron, key advisor to the Polish trade union Solidarity, was recognized for his contributions to Solidarity's struggle and the democratic cause in Poland.
		Kuron stated that Solidarity's success proves that "the assumption that totalitarianism can be broken only from the outside since there are no internal forces capable of breaking the system is false.
	www.ned.org /events/demaward/demaward1989.html (183 words)

	Political Dictionary N-O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Also, since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 there have been several incidents in which materials used to make nuclear weapons have been smuggled out of Russia and into Europe, leading to new concerns about proliferation.
		OAU works to promote solidarity amongst members, improve the quality of life in Africa.
		Organization of American States (OAS) - created in 1948 to defend the sovereignty of the nations of South and North America; OAS also is involved in the settlement of disputes and promotion of economic and cultural cooperation in the region.
	www.fast-times.com /dictionaryn-o.html (2972 words)

	March 2002 Union Labor News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Getting even that pay had been a long struggle for her, having to go back and forth between the agencies and social workers, while the plumber needed to be paid and the car fixed, and the doctor's bill and tax payments were coming due.
		She attended a rally to support the union organizing drive and was seen observing the vote count the day the union won the election.
		Unions too have been educated about workers' fears, and their backgrounds and cultural differences, he said.
	www.scfl.org /uln3-2.htm (6481 words)

	SEIU Local 347 : Links
		Labor union resources, educational materials, and exclusive benefits for union members.
		Union Jobs Clearinghouse, central site for posting the open staffing and trades positions in organized labor that are now accepting applications.
		The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government.
	www.seiu347.org /link/index.shtml (646 words)

	CWA 1180 - Political Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the mayor reintroduced his original plan to change to nonpartisan elections as soon as possible it was met with vigorous opposition.
		Many New Yorkers came out to oppose nonpartisan elections as a bad idea for New York and some accused the mayor of being self-serving because a change this year would help him in his bid for re-election in 2005.
		The mayor now says that the change to nonpartisan elections should be effective in 2009 and that candidates should be able to list their party affiliations on the ballot.
	www.cwa1180.org /politics/Nonpartisan.shtml (511 words)

	The IBEW Union Burying Ground
		Union Square has been the launching pad for thousands of protesters, and therefore a major focus for the New York City Police Department as it attempts to keep demonstrators from disrupting the event.
		It was a crowd dominated by union members from the UMWA, United Steelworkers of America, Teamsters, Laborers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the West Virginia Education Association.
		Union membership is down nationwide, and - despite its history - southern Illinois is no exception as manufacturers push offshore for cheaper labor and coal companies, once awash with well-paying jobs, close down in the face of clean-air laws.
	theibewunionburyingground.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_theibewunionburyingground_archive.html (14874 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Union U by Steven Malanga
		In 1995, for instance, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst began a labor studies M.A. program in union leadership and administration—in essence, a professional school for union leaders that is emblematic of the transformation of the field from a backwater of continuing education to postgraduate academic status.
		In 2001, the California legislature, in response to union lobbying, dedicated millions in state money for research on labor issues and for a new multi-campus center for working-class studies that churns out reports supporting labor’s positions on a host of subjects.
		To read these “studies,” touted in the press as nonpartisan, is to realize just how endangered in today’s university are such notions as disinterested scholarship and inquiry after the truth.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9057 (2318 words)

	AFL-CIO Weblog \| Union Members Under Attack in Belarus
		In the lead-up to the March 19 presidential election, the government of Belarus intensified its decade-long persecution of Belarusian workers who are fighting to form independent trade unions free from government and employer interference.
		Bob Fielding, the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s representative in the Ukraine and Belarus, sends this firsthand report of what is happening in that European country.
		Others were seized, while leaving their union offices to go home, and forced into unmarked cars.
	blog.aflcio.org /?p=390 (523 words)

	February 2003 Union Labor News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leys also urges union members in the Madison area to contact Frank at (608) 232-9105 and ask the company to reach an amicable and fair settlement with the union.
		AFSCME, the nation's largest public employee union, and the Philadelphia Labor Council are among the most recent additions from the ranks of organized labor to the growing national movement against a war with Iraq.
		He said the union and workers hold the Coors family directly responsible for the lockout and view their actions as a return to their "virulent union busting" activities of the past.
	www.scfl.org /uln2-3.htm (9019 words)

	SOLIDARITY Working Papers: The Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In addition to the labor union organizations which represented perhaps 80 percent of the votes at the convention, there were also delegates from Labor Party Advocates chapters and at-large delegates.
		The strategy is to recruit unions into a larger and larger holding tank, based on the notion that you can be in the Labor Party and still do your regular COPE work, until there's critical mass enough to actually act like a party-that is, to run candidates.
		Pointing out their smallness is not a criticism of those unions; nor is it saying that their movement is insignificant because it starts somewhat on the edges of the labor movement rather than in the mainstream.
	www.solidarity-us.org /lpa.htm (6111 words)

	Center for Policy Alternatives: RightToWorkForLess.xml
		A union security agreement requires employees who benefit from the union’s representation to pay dues that cover the costs of union negotiations, contract administration, and other union-provided job services.
		For example, if a nonunion worker is fired illegally, the union must finance the expensive legal proceedings to defend him or her.
		On average, Hispanic union members earn 50 percent ($224) more each week than nonunion Hispanics, and African Americans earn 31 percent ($156) more each week if they are union members.
	www.stateaction.org /issues/issue.cfm?issue=RightToWorkForLess.xml (497 words)

	Membership
		The primary aim of this National Coalition is to unify all union women in a viable organization to determine our common problems and concerns and to develop action programs within the framework of our unions to deal effectively with our objectives.
		The basic goals of CLUW are to promote affirmative action in the workplace, strengthen the role of women in their unions, organize the unorganized women and increase involvement of women in the political and legislative process.
		Let every member introduce herself/himself, union, position in the union and why she or he is attending the meeting and what issues she or he would like to work on
	www.cluw.org /membership-sampleletter.html (383 words)

	The USA National Endowmwnt for democracy
		To strengthen and improve the trade union work of the independent Federation of Trade Unions-Burma (FTUB) and to improve coordination and communications among labor and student organizations inside Burma.
		The Union will also involve women in discussions on future democratic constitution, publish materials on women's rights, and send members to international meetings.
		Through the NCUB's "National Reconciliation and Political Solidarity Program," the NCUB Secretariat will work to solidify cooperation with and encourage commitment to common goals among the groups that are important to Burma's democratization.
	www.saag.org /papers2/paper198.htm (4383 words)

	Carl Gershman, "Building a Worldwide Movement for Democracy: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations," American ...
		But by the 1980s the Solidarity movement had emerged in Poland, and throughout Central Europe and even in the Soviet Union independent cultural and media groups started springing up, along with groups pressing for human and minority rights.
		And there are also trade unions that defend the rights of workers and give them a voice in shaping the governmental and international financial policies that affect their well-being.
		There are groups that work to strengthen local government and to make government accountable at all levels; while others train civilians in issues of national defense to enable them to monitor security policy and discourage the involvement of the military in politics.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/0803/ijpe/pj81gershman.htm (1635 words)

	SouthWestern Bell Worldroom at the International Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Along with the parties of the ruling coalition, other parties represented in parliament are: the Union of Freedom (UW), the Union of Labor (UP), the Confederation for an Independent Poland (KPN), and the Nonpartisan Bloc in Support of Reform (BBWR).
		The two most significant political groupings outside of parliament are: Solidarity's Electoral Action (AWS), a centerright coalition anchored by the Solidarity Trade Union; and the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP), a rightist/nationalist bloc led by former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski.
		Political parties in Parliament: Democratic Left Alliance, Polish Peasant Party, Union of Freedom, Union of Labor, Confederation for an Independent Poland, and Nonpartisan Bloc in Support of Reform.
	worldroom.tamu.edu /develop/GA_Pola.htm (463 words)

	Background Notes: Poland 04/97
		At the first Solidarity national congress in SeptemberOctober 1981, Lech Walesa was elected national chairman of the union.
		The Solidarity Union's decision to withdraw support for the Suchocka government led President Walesa to dissolve the parliament on May 28, 1993, after a vote of noconfidence.
		The birth of Solidarity in 1980 raised the hope that progress would be made in Poland's external relations as well as in its domestic development.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/70.htm (5447 words)

	Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
		Today's unions represent 13 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life.
		Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.
		U.S. Union Membership Increases in 2005--in Wisconsin, Percent of Workers Represented by Unions Rises from 16.9% to 17.2%
	www.wisaflcio.org (1044 words)

	The Bibliography
		This is a developing bibliography on union responses to globalization.
		Solidarity for survival: the Don Thomson reader on trade union internationalism.
		International trade union "solidarity" and its victims: the Costa Rican case.
	henningcenter.berkeley.edu /projects/biblio.html (5315 words)

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		"The National Farmers Union is a (95 year old) federation of state and regional Farmers Union organizations, is a general farm organization whose members join together to map out and work for a comprehensive program for rural America." Made up of about 300,000 farm families from every U.S. state.
		"Solidarity is a socialist organization dedicated to forming a broad regroupment of the U.S. left.
		We are members of unions, where we oppose corporations as well as bureaucratic "business unionism." We are involved in solidarity with the people of Central and South America, Indonesia, Iraq, the Balkans, Palestine, and many other countries, where we fight against U.S. aggression and imperialism.
	www.michaelmoore.com /links/index.php?linkType=Organizations (3241 words)

	AxisofLogic/ News - Americas
		It's possible the DNC could change its nominating procedures before the convention, such as deciding to have delegates vote later by mail or by proxy.
		However, delaying the nomination could have implications for the roughly $14 million in government financing the DNC received to hold its nominating convention, he said.
		The nation's campaign finance law bans them from using corporate or union money on ads mentioning Kerry a month before he is officially nominated, with the same rules applying to ads mentioning Bush in advance of his party convention.
	www.axisoflogic.com /cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=53&num=7953 (996 words)

	Union Corruption Update 5.6
		STOSSEL: Hurley and the other big stars apologized to the union, were reprimanded or fined and all was forgiven.
		He'd only auditioned for a part and he says he didn't know it was forbidden by his union and that his shoot was about to be picketed.
		They sent us a statement saying, "These individuals conveyed a message that was contrary to the goals of the Guild and Barbieri received a full and fair hearing." But SAG wouldn't talk to me about this though we asked them half a dozen times and they wouldn't discuss specifics of Barbieri's case.
	www.nlpc.org /olap/UCU3/05_06_24.htm (896 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		Following the September 1997 parliamentary elections, the right-of-center Solidarity Election Action coalition and the centrist Freedom Union formed a governing coalition, deposing the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance and Polish Peasant's League.
		The Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) won clear victories while the Social Alliance (PS) - a new coalition of the Polish Peasant Party, the Union of Labor and the National Pensioners' Party - emerged as the third strongest political power.
		In preparation for the October local elections, NDI provided training for party branches and candidates, as well as summer training camps for young activists from the Solidarity Election Action, Democratic Left Alliance, Freedom Union, the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland and the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/cee/poland/poland.asp (791 words)

	JINSA Online -- Iran Said to Harbor al Qaeda Fugitives
		But crucial al Qaeda figures were allowed to stay, they said, and some of those who left were provided with false papers or had their passports cleaned of incriminating stamps.
		Still others, or their wives and children, were turned over to their home governments in a display of solidarity with the United States and its allies.
		In one case, the wife of a prominent al Qaeda figure was sent home and told officials when she arrived that her husband was still in Iran, another intelligence officer said.
	www.jinsa.org /articles/view.html?documentid=1700 (1434 words)

	'Meddling' In Ukraine: Democracy is not an American plot. - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same.
		In the run-up to Ukraine's presidential vote this fall, these American and European organizations concentrated their resources on creating conditions for free and fair elections.
		Formally, this help was nonpartisan, because the aim was to aid the electoral process.
	www.carnegieendowment.org /publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=16292 (911 words)

	Political Science - New York Times
		And in June, the American Civil Liberties Union released a report, ''Science Under Siege,'' charging that post-9/11 security measures have imperiled the country's technical competitiveness by restricting access to equipment and documents and obstructing the movement of foreign scientists.
		To many in the scientific community, it is unfathomable that Marburger would risk his reputation by staying on and continuing to defend the administration.
		It was an era in which admiration for science and scientists was at its peak, and the cultural mood was reflected in the White House.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/04/magazine/04SCIENCE.html?ei=5088&en=db44d8e77dacc23d&ex=1283486400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (3842 words)

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