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NYTimes.com: Manhattan: Workers Claim Victory
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. NEW YORK REGION | October 31, 2007 New York: Manhattan: Workers Claim Victory By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Lawyers for three former workers at 167 Nail Plaza, a salon on the Upper West Side, announced yesterday that they had won more than $225,000 on behalf of the workers. On Friday, a jury in Federal District Court awarded one worker, Susan Kim, $182,000 for overtime violations and as compensation for being fired for demanding lunch breaks. Another worker received $40,000 in a settlement over overtime and retaliation claims and a third worker received a $3,500 settlement. An employee at the salon said it was sold a month ago. The former owner, Dong Rim Park, did not respond to a phone message. The workers were represented by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/nyregion/31mbrfs-WORKERS.html?ex=11944944… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

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On the News?
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Smlr_update] On the News? From: "David Finegold" <dfinegold(a)smlr.rutgers.edu> Date: Tue, October 30, 2007 4:50 pm To: smlr_update(a)email.rutgers.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NJ News taped my talk on the Bio-1 WIRED initiative in Trenton today and interviewed Mary Ellen and me. Hopefully there will be a segment on the 6, 7.30 and/or 11 programs tonight. David Prof. David Finegold Dean School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 94 Rockafeller Rd. Piscataway, NJ 08854-8054 P: 732-445-5993 (Dean's Office), 732-932-4767 (LEC) F: 732-445-5188 www.smlr.rutgers.edu _______________________________________________ Smlr_update mailing list Smlr_update(a)email.rutgers.edu https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_update -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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Immigration & Local Conflicts Conference Nov 9.
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick/Piscataway Local Struggles Immigrants, Latinos and Rights in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania A conference for activists, students, scholars and public officials Friday, November 9, 2007, 10-4 PM Busch Campus, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Organized by the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Registration Form: MSWORD <http://latcar.rutgers.edu/Conferenceregistration.doc> PDF <http://latcar.rutgers.edu/Conferenceregistration.pdf> Directions <http://latcar.rutgers.edu/directionsconference.htm> to Fiber Optic Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ Conference Poster: PDF <http://latcar.rutgers.edu/Local%20Struggles%20Poster.pdf> The Local Struggles conference will bring together activists, legal practitioners, politicians, scholars, policy experts, immigrants and students to discuss the increasing 'localization' of struggles over the rights of both legal and undocumented Latin American and Caribbean immigrant workers in the Tri-State area. During the last two decades, but especially in past few years, cities, towns, and suburbs throughout the Tri-state area have become the new front line for policy and legal battles involving and affecting not only immigrants, but also the US Latino population at large. Many localities have experienced divisive battles that reproduce national-level debates over immigration and rights, which unveil unresolved tensions and contradictions between local governments and the federal level. Some towns have recurred to repressive, racializing, and discriminatory policies unabashedly aimed at restricting the rights of immigrant workers and residents or in the most extreme cases encouraging their removal from US public space altogether. Other towns have offered constructive solutions to the challenges posed by the presence of immigrant workers and tried to meet the needs of these new communities regardless of their legal status. Access to housing, education, work, and community life has become crucial in local negotiations over citizenship, race and rights that affect not only the new immigrant population, but also non-immigrant "native" Latino communities such as Puerto Ricans. This conference will examine these issues on the basis of the following cases of localized struggles: * Riverside (NJ) City Council passes a "Illegal Immigration Relief Act" * Hazelton (PA) looses legal battle with Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund over illegality of its anti-illegal immigrant ordinance * Edison (NJ) considers a policy of keeping their police force from becoming involved in enforcing federal immigration policies * Newark (NJ) city council approves resolution that enhances access to services and precludes deputizing of local law enforcement by federal immigration authority. * East Hampton (NY) Schools deal with assaults on immigrant children. * Attorney General (Trenton, NJ) orders local law enforcement agencies to inquire about immigration status of criminal suspects and notify federal authorities in the wake of recent killings in a Newark schoolyard. The formal and informal policies involved in these and other cases have been presented as strategies to curb the presence of unauthorized immigrants and control 'undesirable' practices in housing markets, street corners, sidewalks and places of social gathering. They have also drawn battle lines that have reverberated at the state and federal level but that often are replicated in ever more localities as Latino communities and Latin American immigration patterns expand to cities, towns, and suburbs, which until the past few decades have not been recent immigrant-receiving localities. The goal of this conference is to help students, neighbors, faculty, workers, activists, and others confront the issues raised by these local conflicts, privileging the perspectives of those who are most dramatically affected by these events, but least often heard from. The conference comprises a plenary session in the morning (10-12am) focusing on local cases from different perspectives (activist, scholarly, legal, etc.) and two sets of smaller, thematic break-out sessions in the afternoon (1:00-2.15pm and 2:30-4pm) which will focus on legal issues, race relations and constructions of race, economic issues, social policy issues, and immigrant youth and access to college education. The breakout sessions, in turn, will allow participants to discuss and share experiences, ask questions of the guest speakers and session facilitators, and find ways of getting involved and become more educated about the conflicts and issues at stake. We will end the event with a reception at 4pm. Approximately two dozen presenters and workshop facilitators will be invited and we are hoping we will have about one hundred participants. Concurrent poster, hallway information displays, video presenters and other resources will present materials from participant organizations and relevant audiovisual materials. Translation to/from Spanish will be provided as necessary. Coordinated by Aldo Lauria Santiago and Ulla Berg, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University/New Brunswick-Piscataway Contact person: Alexandra Laguna, Graduate Program Assistant, alexanla(a)eden.rutgers.edu; 732-445-3820. Further details: http://latcar.rutgers.edu -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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"A Little Bit of So Much Truth"
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Re: FW: wbai radio interviewCorrugated Films, in collaboration with Mal de Ojo TV, presents the NYC premiere of "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad). When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...they TOOK the media. NYC Screenings: Nov. 1st 6:30 - 8:30 PM St. Mark's Church in the Bowery 131 E. 10th St @ 2nd Avenue in Manhattan's East Village Free Admission Filmmaker in Attendance Nov 2nd 5:30-8:30 NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East Room 714 Bring Photo ID to get into building Free Admission Sponsored by: New York Collective of Radical Educators, UFTers to Stop the War Adjunct Project - CUNY Graduate Center Filmmaker in Attendance Nov 7th 6 PM Cantor Film Center (36 E 8th St) Free Admission Filmmaker in Attendance In the summer of 2006, a non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of schoolteachers, housewives, farmers, health workers, and students took over 14 radio stations and one TV station, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice. After spending two years in Oaxaca, producing Granito de Arena, Seattle filmmaker Jill Freidberg returned to Oaxaca in 2006, and joined forces with Oaxacan media collective Mal de Ojo TV, to tell the story of the people who put their lives on the line to give a voice to their struggle. Narrated with audio and video recordings from the occupied media outlets, the film delivers a breath-taking, intimate account of a year that changed Mexico forever, and raises important questions about the role of the media in the 21st century. More information at www.corrugate.org -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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NJ Regional Coalition - Statewide Public Meeting this Sunday
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: *NJ Regional Coalition - Statewide Public Meeting this Sunday* From: "Yael Bromberg" <yael2121(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tue, October 30, 2007 12:06 pm Friends, please share this announcement with your networks. The NJ Regional Coalition's second Annual Statewide Public Meeting is this Sunday at 4:30pm in Somerset. The NJ In-State Tuition Bill is a top priority for this meeting, with legislators and government representatives in attendance. I came to last year's event, which turned out 1500 people from across the state to Atlantic City during a hurricane, and it was an uplifting and impressive experience. See you there, Yael New Jersey Regional Coalition Second Annual Statewide Public Meeting To end NJs fair housing crisis, fix our unfair & broken property tax and school funding system, and achieve access to education for all NJ residents Sunday, November 4, 2007 4:30pm - 6:30pm First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens 771 Somerset St., Somerset, NJ 08873 10 minutes from NJ Turnpike Exit 9 DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., Senior Pastor Join bishops, mayors, policy makers, clergy and hundreds of leaders from congregations, unions, and communities all across the state. NJ legislative leaders and the Governor will have a unique opportunity this fall to fix some of our states most pressing problems. But they will only do what is just and right if they are called to account for their actions. Call Governor Corzine at 609-777-0998 and remind him and your legislators to be there . Info: Contact NJRC - 856-663-5380 - njregionalequity.org New Jersey Regional Coalition Reunión P lica de Todo Estado mos voz a la Justicia! Juntémonos con más de 1.500 personas de fe y de buena voluntad a presentarse en pro de las viviendas asequibles, la educación, los impuestos justos de bienes ra s y la inmigración Domingo, 4 de Noviembre, 2007 4:30pm - 6:30pm Primera Iglesia de Bautista de Lincoln Gardens 771 Somerset St., Somerset, NJ 08873 10 minutos de NJ Turnpike Salida 9 DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., Pastor Superior Info: Contact NJRC - 856-663-5380 - njregionalequity.org Yael Bromberg Tent State University Community Empowerment Project Rutgers Labor School, NY/NJ Port Project * * * * The war on Iraq costs $279 million dollars each day. "You shall know that no one is illegal. It is a contradiction in itself. People can be beautiful or even more beautiful. They may be just or unjust. But illegal? How can someone be illegal?" -- Elie Wiesel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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NYTimes.com: Chrysler Chief Calls Pay Pact Revolutionary
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS | October 30, 2007 Chrysler Chief Calls Pay Pact Revolutionary By NICK BUNKLEY Saying he is not concerned by the level of opposition to Chrysler's new two-tier wage system, the company's new chief executive called the contract 'a major step forward.' http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/business/30chrysler.html?ex=1194408000&en… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: A Union With Clout Stakes Its Claim on Politics
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. U.S. / POLITICS | October 30, 2007 A Union With Clout Stakes Its Claim on Politics By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Democratic presidential candidates are actively courting the Service Employees International Union. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30unions.html?ex=1194408000&e… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

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[IWS] Census: AMERICAN INDIAN & ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH: NOVEMBER 2007 [29 October 2007]]
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2007 [29 October 2007] http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_feature… or http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb07ff-18.pdf [full-text, 6 pages] The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian, rode horseback from state to state, getting endorsements from 24 state governments, to have a day to honor American Indians. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November 1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month." Similar proclamations have been issued every year since 1994. This Facts for Features presents data for American Indians and Alaska Natives, as this is one of the six major race categories. Population 4.5 million As of July 1, 2006, the estimated population of American Indians and Alaska Natives, including those of more than one race. They made up 1.5 percent of the total population. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 45,000 Increase in the nation's American Indian and Alaska Native population from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006. The population of this group increased by 1 percent during the period. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 31 Median age of the American Indian and Alaska Native population in 2006, younger than the median of 36.4 for the population as a whole. About 1.3 million American Indians and Alaska Natives were younger than 18, and 352,000 were 65 and older. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 688,500 The American Indian and Alaska Native population in California as of July 1, 2006, the highest total of any state in the nation. California was followed by Oklahoma (397,000) and Arizona (331,200). About 8,100 American Indians and Alaska Natives were added to Arizona's population between July 1, 2005, and July 1, 2006. That is the largest numeric increase of any state. Georgia (3.7 percent) had the highest rate of increase during the period. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 9 Number of states where American Indians and Alaska Natives were the largest race or ethnic minority group in 2006. These states are Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 11 Number of states with more than 100,000 American Indian and Alaska Native residents on July 1, 2006. These states were California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, New York, Washington, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and Alaska. Combined, these states were home to 62 percent of the nation's American Indian and Alaska Native residents. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 18% The proportion of Alaska's population identified as American Indian and Alaska Native as of July 1, 2006, the highest rate for this race group of any state. Alaska was followed by Oklahoma and New Mexico (11 percent each). <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048…> 150,000 The number of American Indians and Alaska Natives in Los Angeles County, Calif., as of July 1, 2006. Los Angeles led all of the nation's counties in the number of people of this racial category. Maricopa County, Ariz., added about 3,700 people to this group between July 1, 2005, and July 1, 2006, leading the nation's counties in this category. <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482…> 28 Number of counties or county equivalents nationwide that were majority American Indian and Alaska Native, as of July 1, 2006. Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska, led the way, with 94 percent of its population being a member of this race group. (Among counties or equivalents with total populations of 10,000 or more, 10 were majority American Indian and Alaska Native, led by Shannon, S.D., at 88 percent.) <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482…> 301,800 The nation's Cherokee alone population. Cherokee is one of the nation's largest tribal groups, along with Navajo (alone), which has a population of 296,100. Source: 2006 American Community Survey for the American Indian and Alaska Native alone population. **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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[IWS] BLS: A PROFILE of the WORKING POOR 2005 [25 October 2007]]
by Eugene McElroy 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics September 2007 Report 1001 A Profile of the Working Poor, 2005 [25 October 2007] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2005.pdf [full-text, 14 pages] In 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 37.0 million people, or 12.6 percent of the population, lived at or below the official poverty threshold. The majority of the Nations poor were children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year. About 7.7 million of this group were classified as working poorpersons who, during the year, spent 27 weeks or more in the labor force (working or looking for work), but whose incomes still fell below the official poverty level. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began measuring the working poor in 1987 and has since reported annually about the demographic and labor force characteristics of this group. In 2005, persons 16 years and older who were in the labor force for 27 weeks or more living below poverty numbered 5.4 percentlittle changed from 5.6 percent the prior year. The 2005 working-poor rate was 0.7 percentage point higher than its most recent low point of 4.7 percent in 2000. (See tables A and 1 and chart 1.) Additional highlights from the 2005 data include: Full-time workers were less likely to be among the working poor than were part-time workers. About 3.9 percent of the 118.7 million full-time workers were classified as working poor, compared with 11.6 percent of the 23.0 million part-time workers. Although working full-time (35 or more hours per week) substantially lowers a persons likelihood of being poor, nearly 6 of every 10 of the working poor who held a job during 2005 usually worked full-time. As workers achieve higher levels of education, their likelihood of being classified as working poor decreases. In 2005, the number of college graduates who were in the labor force for at least 27 weeks counted among the working poor was 1.7 percent, compared with 14.1 percent of those with less than a high school diploma. Among families with at least one member in the labor force for 27 weeks or more, those families including children under 18 years old were about four times more likely than those without children to live in poverty or to be among the working poor. This report presents data on the relationship between labor force activity and poverty in 2005 for workers and their families. The specific income thresholds used to determine poverty status differed depending on whether the individuals were living with family members, with nonrelatives, or alone. For those living with family members, the poverty threshold was determined by the familys total income; for individuals not living in families, personal income was used as the determinant. The data were collected in the 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey. For a more detailed description of the source of the data and an explanation of the concepts and definitions used in this report, see the Technical Note. **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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[IWS] BLS: EMPLOYER-PROVIDED "QUALITY-OF-LIFE" BENEFITS for WORKERS IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY 2007 [24 October 2007]]
by Eugene McElroy 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Compensation and Working Conditions Online http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm Employer-provided "Quality-of-life" Benefits for Workers in Private Industry, 2007 (10/24/2007) http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20071022ar01p1.htm The National Compensation Survey provides data on "quality-of-life" benefits in its annual benefits summary publications. Although a relatively small percent of workers have access to these kinds of benefits, the data give insight into ways that employers and employees are working toward more family- and environmentally friendly work arrangements. INCLUDES NUMEROUS CHARTS.... **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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