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<font face="Arial"><b><small>in this email:<br>
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1) 9/8 - Next G20/March for Jobs Organizing Meeting<br>
2) 9/13 - Fundraising BBQ/Get Together for G20 March for Jobs in
Pittsburgh, PA<br>
3) School bus union stops Boston layoffs<br>
4) Major labor unions back jobs march in Pittsburgh</small></b><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><small><font face="Arial"><font
color="#660000"><b>1) The next meeting of the Bail Out the People
Movement and the G20 Organizing Committee will take place at 6:30 pm on
Tuesday, Sept, 8 at the Action Center, 284 Amory St. (The Brewery), JP.</b></font><br>
<br>
The Sept. 20 March for Jobs is building momentum especially with the
recent endorsements by the Steelworkers union and the United Electrical
union. These are the only international unions with national
headquarters in Pittsburgh. (see below for more information)<br>
<br>
There is much to be done in order to have a significant delegation from
the Boston Area at the March for Jobs and to participate in the Tent
City and all of the important actions being planned to coincide with
the G2O meeting in Pittsburgh on Sept 24 & 25.<br>
<br>
What can you do?<br>
Get involved and attend the 9/8 meeting<br>
distribute flyers in your community, school, workplace, union hall, etc.<br>
make a donation to help print flyers and assist people in going to
Pittsburgh<br>
<br>
Please contact BOPM by phone or email if you are interested in going to
the Sept. 20 March for Jobs in Pittsburgh.<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Arial"><small><b><font
color="#660000">2) Fundraising BBQ/Get Together for G20 March for Jobs
in Pittsburgh, PA</font></b><br>
<br>
Enjoy Delicious Food, Marvelous People, Great Music, Interesting
Conversation and Lots of Fun!<br>
<br>
<font color="#660000"><b>Sunday, September 13, 2009<br>
2-6:00 PM<br>
Suggested Donation: anywhere from $1.00 to $100.00 (or more!)</b></font><br>
<br>
Please bring a dish, something for the BBQ or drinks. <br>
<br>
Phebe and Vincent's house<br>
452 Medford St.<br>
Somerville, MA 02145<br>
<br>
Located near the Davis Square T stop on Red Line and Sullivan Sq. T
stop on the Orange Line<br>
<br>
Call for a ride from T if you need one:<br>
617-838-9219 or 617-628-1104</small><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#660000"><small><font
face="Arial">3) </font></small><br>
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<h1><font color="#660000"><small><font face="Arial">School bus union
stops Boston layoffs</font></small></font></h1>
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<div class="deck"><small><font face="Arial">Labor-community solidarity
leads to victory</font></small></div>
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<div class="byline"><small><font face="Arial">By Frank Neisser
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<p><small><font face="Arial">At a time when millions are laid off and
unemployed throughout the country
during the worst economic crisis since the depression of the 1930s, the
Boston
School Bus Union—Steelworkers Local 8751—has succeeded in round one
of a long fight to protect jobs and vital services to the communities
the union
serves.</font></small></p>
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Boston School Bus Drivers Union, USW Local 8751. </font></small></div>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">On Aug. 25 when the union received the
annual bus route schedule, it learned
that the school bus company First Student and the Boston School
Department
planned to eliminate 46 jobs by creating unsafe speedup conditions just
as the
school year is set to begin. The attack came in last-minute information
to the
union about the planned fall runs provided just prior to the Aug. 27
“fall bid,” where drivers bid on runs for the fall based on
seniority.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">As soon as the union learned of the
attack, which violates the union contract,
it swung into action and notified all the drivers. Within a day they
produced a
bulletin, scheduled and organized an emergency membership meeting for
the night
before the bid, and met with community leaders to alert the parents and
community of the attack on their rights. The union’s Web site carried
up-to-the-minute bulletins on the struggle.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">The union demanded an immediate high-level
negotiating session with the company
and the School Department at noon on Aug. 25 at Local 8751 union hall.
They
also let the School Department and the company know that unless the
union
contract violations were satisfactorily resolved, there would be no
driver
participation in the fall bid or transportation at the opening of
school.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Five top School Department and company
representatives came to the
negotiations, including Boston Public Schools CEO Michael Goar, First
Student
Regional V.P. Robert Timilty, and BPS Director of Transportation
Michael
Hughes. They found themselves surrounded by 50 militant rank-and-file
bus
drivers—many of whom faced layoffs due to the sneaky job-cut
proposals—who were making placards and preparing materials for the
struggle.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">The negotiations were intense and lasted
several hours. Union militants
insisted the session go on until justice was achieved.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">In the end, not one driver was laid off.
The union won restoration of 22
full-time jobs with full benefits, with other jobs to be added by the
October
bid. An historic agreement was reached to end outsourcing of athletic
and
charter work, and an expedited process was put in place to correct
unsafe
routes that would have required double and triple loads and drivers to
be in
multiple places at the same time.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">While no driver was laid off, there was
still a reduction of nine jobs. The
union will struggle, once the school year starts, to restore the
remaining
routes that were cut as a result of overcrowding and speed-up.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial"><strong>School resegregation plan stopped</strong></font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">In June the union in alliance with the
Coalition for Equal Quality
Education—a broad coalition including the Black Educators Alliance of
Massachusetts, Work 4 Quality/Fight 4 Equity, rank-and-file teachers,
parent
organizations, the Bail Out the People Movement, other activists and
Boston’s councilors-of-color Chuck Turner, Charles Yancy and Sam
Yoon—successfully stopped a racist rezoning plan which would have
further
segregated Boston schools and made the oppressed communities pay for
the
economic crisis.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">That plan would also have resulted in the
loss of hundreds of jobs. The
superintendent announced on Aug. 26 that this plan, which was
originally to
have been reworked and resubmitted this fall, has been scrapped and
would not
be resubmitted. However, she announced plans for a study over the next
year of
how other urban school systems cut transportation costs. The union and
community activists are poised for more rounds in this ongoing fight.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">The Boston School Bus Union has shown that
the answer to the bosses’
attacks and layoffs is militant, united rank-and-file action and
solidarity
with the community. The union has vowed that the struggle will go on
until all
jobs are restored and the racist rezoning plan is stopped for good. An
injury
to one is an injury to all!</font></small></p>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#660000"><small><font
face="Arial">4)</font><br>
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<h1><font color="#660000"><small><font face="Arial">Major labor unions
back jobs march in Pittsburgh</font></small></font></h1>
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<div class="byline"><small><font face="Arial">By LeiLani Dowell
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Momentum is building for the National
March for Jobs and Tent City from Sept.
20-25 that will confront the leading finance ministers and bankers of
the
world’s wealthiest nations who will be meeting in Pittsburgh for the
G-20
Summit.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">In a major development, both the
Steelworkers union and the United Electrical
union—the only two international unions with national headquarters in
Pittsburgh—have endorsed the Sept. 20 March for Jobs.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">The Steelworkers union, which originally
only represented those working in the
steel industry, has diversified through a series of mergers and now
represents
workers in other industries as well, including those in other metals
and
manufacturing, paper and forestry products, the chemical industry,
health care,
pharmacies and pharmaceuticals, public employees, mining, and energy
and
utilities.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">UE, one of most radical unions in the
country, calls itself “the rank and
file union.” The union represents “some 35,000 workers in a wide
variety of manufacturing, public sector and private non-profit sector
jobs.” (ueunion.org)</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial"><strong>No to a jobless recovery</strong></font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Bail Out the People Movement activists,
along with others mobilizing for the
Global Week in Solidarity with the Unemployed, note that G-20 summit
participants will be meeting from Sept. 24-25 to discuss plans to
protect their
interests during the economic crisis—but not those of the working
people
throughout the world who are affected the most by this crisis.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">While the March and Tent City will address
multiple concerns—including
U.S. imperialist wars, health care, foreclosures and evictions,
political
prisoners and more—the principal issue will be the need for a serious
jobs program. Organizers wish to carry on the legacy of the Rev. Martin
Luther
King Jr., whose final struggle in the days before he was assassinated
was the
fight for jobs at a living wage.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">The March for Jobs will assemble at 2 p.m.
at Monument Baptist Church, located
in the Hill, an historic African-American community adjacent to
downtown
Pittsburgh. Marchers will return to the Tent City, located in a lot
next to the
church and dedicated to the unemployed people of the world.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Both events will demand the rejection that
a jobless recovery should be
accepted or tolerable. BOPM organizer Larry Holmes told WW, “We must
not
accept a recovery only for Wall Street—a recovery for profits, but a
jobless recovery.”</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Building actions throughout country</strong></font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Outside of Pittsburgh, activists are
organizing to bring caravans of unemployed
and their supporters to the week of action. A big push is being made at
Labor
Day events throughout the country to win the support of more unions.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Many activists vowed their support at a
labor meeting in New York on Aug. 31,
which featured workers from the Stella D’Oro factory in the Bronx; the
president of the Vulcan Society, Black firefighters who just won a
discrimination lawsuit against New York City; the vice president of
Service
Employees Local 1199; a co-chair of the May 1st Coalition for Worker
and
Immigrant Rights; among others.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">A speaking tour of Ohio is gathering
momentum for the events, and an organizing
meeting will take place in North Carolina involving Black Workers For
Justice,
the youth group FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together), UE Local 150
and
other community and labor forces.</font></small></p>
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<p><small><font face="Arial">Resolutions supporting the March for Jobs
and Global Week in Solidarity with
the Unemployed have been adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council,
the
International Longshore Warehouse Union Local 10 executive board and
Golden
Gate Branch 214 of the Letter Carriers union. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial"><small>For more information, visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bailoutpeople.org">www.bailoutpeople.org</a>.</small><br>
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Boston</b><br>
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