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May SCLC Meeting

When: Wed., May 23, 6:00 p.m.

Where: Everett Labor Temple

SCLC Meetings

Delegates from member unions attend monthly meetings on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. Those meetings are held at the Labor Temple, 2812 Lombard, Everett. Directions to SCLC
April 2012 Meeting Minutes

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The Snohomish County Labor Council and Its Purpose

The Snohomish County Labor Council is a federation of 63 unions in Snohomish County. Those unions represent 42,000 working families for the purpose of bargaining wages/salaries and working conditions with their employers.

The Labor Council and its member unions are dedicated to helping workers organize their workplaces so that they are ensured economic justice and dignity.


Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive Celebrates 20 Years!

"Stamp Out Hunger" Event is Saturday, May 12

Help provide food for the many households in our community that struggle to provide enough food for their family. Food collected from postal customers will go to local food banks to help feed those in need.

On Saturday, May 12th, put your non-perishable food donations in a bag next to your mailbox -- your letter carrier will pick it up and deliver it to a local food bank.

The drive, the largest one-day food-collection event in the nation, has been a success every year, a NALC spokesperson said, but the needs are particularly sad, even staggering, in 2012.

For more info, visit www.nalc.org/commun/foodrive/


We All Do Better When We All Do Better

 

by Stan Sorscher

Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace

 

A few days ago, economist Joseph Stiglitz said something quite provocative: "We've been shaping our society to create people who are more selfish."

The eye is drawn to the last part, "... create people who are more selfish." My takeaway message is at the beginning, "We've been shaping our society ... ."

In the same speech, he repeats a line from one of his books: "The reason the invisible hand was often invisible was that it wasn't there." He reminds us that, generally, markets do not solve our problems. "Nobody ever said that they were fair, that they would lead to a distribution of income that was socially acceptable." Markets fail, more often than we suppose. Read entire Huffington Post article

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CEO Pay and the 99%

AFL-CIO’s Executive PayWatch website exposes CEO pay

• A CEO of a company in the S&P 500 Index on average received $12.9 million in total compensation in 2011. That’s a 14 percent raise over the previous year. And that’s on top of a 23% increase in 2010. The average wage for workers hovered at $34,000 in 2011.

11,000 years: That’s how long it would take a worker to make what the Apple CEO made last year.

• Verizon cut 41,100 jobs between 2007 and 2011 while hoarding $14 billion and paying its CEO $23.1 million in 2011.

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