Then Mayor Kathy Taylor hosted the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit along with renowned social scholar Marian Wright Edelman in 2009. The meeting sought answers to the interconnected problems incarceration, health and mental health coverage, poverty, and education.
Mayor Taylor 'gets it' in regards to social issues. Tulsa needs forward thinking leaders like Kathy Taylor.
Because there was no reason to keep the job. My opinion is that I'm better off looking for work and fighting to keep Wonder Bread in a union rather than getting what they offered us and spending the next five years in poverty. I would be guaranteed a 5 percent pay cut every year, and go from $16.12 to $11.26 an hour. It's easy to say, "Well, no, you should just fight to keep the job." The job I had is a wonderful job, and it will be hard to replace. The other one I could have been getting is not. There is a Walmart eight blocks from my house. I can work there. People forget we have already been made these exact same promises by these exact same people. They lied then. Why would we believe it this time? I have a total lack of confidence and faith in these owners.
There used to be a valuable resource called The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) that tried to bridge the gap in regards to Federal/State regulatory issurs. Sadly, it is defunct. The archived web site of the ACIR can be found at the University of North Texas's 'Cyber Cemetery'
The $700 billion in TARP money that the government gave the big banks to bail them out would have paid all the credit card debt in America. In other words, we could have forgiven all the credit card debt - put some change in the average person's pocket, thus stumulating the economy.
White collar workers are already unionized. The National Writers Union (www.nwu.org); Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (www.speea.org); SEIU organizes college professors. I'll bet there are a lot of other white collar workers that would like to organize as well. We're all in it together, brothers and sisters!
Yes indeed. One may notice that several members of the Advisory Board of Governors of the Communities Foundation of Oklahoma were also on the Right to Work steering committee back in 2001.
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Re: Anonymous No Longer
No Comment.
Re: The Magic Number
http://www.eyeonwashington.com/few_map/map.html
Re: Open Positions
Mayor Taylor 'gets it' in regards to social issues.
Tulsa needs forward thinking leaders like Kathy Taylor.
Re: As Water in a Sieve
"Our Common Future"
http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm
Re: Three's a Crowd?
Re: Christmas, Coffee, and Poetry
Happy Holidays!
Re: Twinkie Future Uncertain
Interview with a Hostess worker
Why did you support the decision to go on strike?
Because there was no reason to keep the job. My opinion is that I'm better off looking for work and fighting to keep Wonder Bread in a union rather than getting what they offered us and spending the next five years in poverty. I would be guaranteed a 5 percent pay cut every year, and go from $16.12 to $11.26 an hour. It's easy to say, "Well, no, you should just fight to keep the job." The job I had is a wonderful job, and it will be hard to replace. The other one I could have been getting is not. There is a Walmart eight blocks from my house. I can work there. People forget we have already been made these exact same promises by these exact same people. They lied then. Why would we believe it this time? I have a total lack of confidence and faith in these owners.
Re: About The TwinkieVerse
According to CNN, Hostess made 500 million twinkies last year.
also, read http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hostess-failed-hedge-funds-v-unions-2012-11
Re: Green Shoots in Aerospace
Re: As the Tap Turns
'Only Tulsa's delicious tap water is as it was.'
PAUL HARVEY'S HOMECOMING -- HON. PHILIP M. CRANE in the
House of Representatives
(Extension of Remarks - August 05, 1994)
Congressional Record
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:E05AU4-206:
Re: Our Politicians Need an Education
Sadly, it is defunct.
The archived web site of the ACIR can be found at the University of North Texas's 'Cyber Cemetery'
http://www.library.unt.edu/gpo/acir/Default.html
Re: Homelessness Interrupted
http://www.storiedstreets.com/
Re: Planting Crocuses in the Water
Re: Organizing a New Voice
Forgive credit card debt. Put some cash in people's pocket for Saturday night - Stimulate the economy.
Re: Thrifty Families and Other Lies
Have the banks dropped their interest rates? No.
How did interest rates go from 5% to 30% anyway.
Re: What Unions?
The National Writers Union (www.nwu.org);
Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (www.speea.org); SEIU organizes college professors.
I'll bet there are a lot of other white collar workers that would like to organize as well.
We're all in it together, brothers and sisters!
Re: Captiolists
One may notice that several members of the Advisory Board of Governors of the Communities Foundation of Oklahoma were also on the Right to Work steering committee back in 2001.
Re: Too Pig to Jail?
Re: Conspiracy on the Web?
www.realclearpolitics.com
Re: The Governing Elite vs. the Rest
http://blogs.govexec.com/fedblog/2010/06/strength_of_public_sector_unio.php