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May SCLC MeetingWhen: Wed., May 23, 6:00 p.m.Where: Everett Labor TempleSCLC 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 SCLCApril 2012 Meeting Minutes |
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Why Organize? Here's Why
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merica's Unions have fought for worker's rights for decades. Unions give us a voice in the workplace, a good wage and benefits. Find out more about the benefits of organizing. Go Union
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The Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, was founded in 1909 to promote the products and services produced in America by union members.
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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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