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Znet Article Sandronsky: SEIU vs NUHW: Do Employees Have Free Choice to Change Unions under Obama?

Znet Article, February, 03 2009 Seth Sandronsky
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Barack H. Obama won the White House on the promise of "change." One of the big donors for Obama's campaign for change was the Service Employees International Union, which spent nearly $30 million for his presidential campaign according to the Cen...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Healthy Growth?

Znet Article, January, 19 2009 Seth Sandronsky
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What happens when 91 percent of eligible Service Employees International Union members vote on two options to merge health care locals in California? Just ask the international executive board of the SEIU. After the nine percent vote, the SEIU boa...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Funding Israel's Military

Znet Article, December, 30 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Millions of Americans face home foreclosures, health care, job and pension losses. However, none of these crises currently threatens to alter the flow of their tax dollars to Israel’s government. It takes these greenbacks and buys F-16 jets m...

Znet Article Sandronsky: California's Jobless Insurance

Znet Article, December, 18 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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A growing mass of people in California, where the housing bubble soared seemingly to the sky and then plunged rapidly to earth, are out of work and seeking employment due to the deepening downturn. According to the state Employment Development Dep...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Lifelines in Hard Times

Znet Article, November, 15 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Before the mid-2006 collapse of the home price bubble, it stimulated U.S. local and state economies. Private employers, small and large, expanded their payrolls. That growth increased U.S. workers earnings to purchase goods and services. Meanwhile...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Reforming the U.S. Education System

Znet Article, September, 29 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Charter schools, begun two decades ago to spur innovation in learning and teaching, have been a force to push out labor unions...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Unionizing UC Davis workers, Community-labor support key

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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After a sustained campaign in which police arrested two dozen non-violent protesters in downtown Davis, California, Sodexho food-service workers at UC Davis have won recognition as university employees. The recent decision means that 200 career wo...

Znet Article Sandronsky: In Davis, Sodexho Workers Struggle

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Sodexho food-service workers at University California Davis and social justice groups such as Students Organizing for Change have been busy mobilizing for improved labor conditions. Their goal is for the company’s 500 contracted-out workers to bec...

Znet Article Sandronsky: New Frontiers in Philanthropy

Znet Article, April, 13 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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U.S. public schools have been getting help from the New Schools Venture Fund since 1998. It “seeks to transform public education by leveraging the power of entrepreneurs to effect change,” its Web site said. How? NSVF determines “the most powerful...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Meet America's Promise Alliance

Znet Article, April, 06 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Before U.S. forces attacked Iraq in March 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell argued at the U.N. for the armed removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose weapons of mass destruction threatened the American people. Iraq’s WMDs have yet ...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Halting California Tuition Hikes

Znet Article, February, 16 2008 Seth Sandronsky
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Making ends meet is a fight for Valencia Henley, an ethnic studies major graduating from California State University, Sacramento this spring.

Znet Article Sandronsky: Ann Wright

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and State Dept. diplomat, recently spoke at Sacramento City College, wearing a black t-shirt with white letters that spelled out

Znet Article Sandronsky: To rent or own in the U.S.?

Znet Article, September, 17 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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To rent or own in the U.S.?

Znet Article Sandronsky: Organizing Nurses: Interviewing Ed Bruno, National Nurses Organizing Committee

Znet Article, August, 06 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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Ed Bruno is the national organizing coordinator for the National Nurses Organizing Committee, a labor union founded by the California Nurses Associat...

Znet Article Sandronsky: California crime and punishment

Znet Article, February, 05 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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Heard of California’s "10-20-life” law? It mandates a life sentence penalty for shooting a victim while commi...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Bi-partisan unity on Social Security?

Znet Article, January, 22 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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Bi-partisan unity on Social Security?

Znet Article Sandronsky: An Iraq jobs program?

Znet Article, January, 15 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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Discontent with President Bush’s "New Way Forward in Iraq" is deep and wide across the U.S. and around the world. A big reason is his recent decision to deploy 21,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq. Opinion polls show that the American p...

Znet Article Sandronsky: George Will and the Minimum Wage

Znet Article, January, 09 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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George Will and the Minimum Wage

Znet Article Sandronsky: George Will and the Minimum Wage

Znet Article, January, 09 2007 Seth Sandronsky
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George Will and the Minimum Wage

Znet Article Sandronsky: James Brown

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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Music superstar James Brown's influence was widespread. Count me in as a longtime fan of his. Brown's recent passing marks the end of an era. What I wish to add to the many accolades and tributes to him is just this. His song "Say It Loud, I'm Bl...

Znet Article Sandronsky: "Fiscally Imperiled Social Security"?

Znet Article, December, 25 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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Political fantasy, anyone?  Such fantasizing is a strange brew that caninvolve the daily press when it comes to the finances of Social Security. President George W. Bush aims to work next year with Democrats to fix the "fiscally imperiled Social S...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Sacramento's Alpha Academy

Znet Article, December, 23 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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These are tough times for black youth across the U.S.  They are more likely than other racial groups to live in poverty, be a murde...

Znet Article Sandronsky: The Washington Post's War Against Social Security Editorializing while reporting

Znet Article, November, 29 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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A Washington Post reporter has a problem with Social Security. She wrote that “the rising costs of Social Security and government health-care programs” are on tap as subject for debate in future talks between the GOP and Democrat...

Znet Article Sandronsky: Is Another Recession Looming?

Znet Article, November, 09 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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U.S. economic growth rose at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in July–September, the slowest in more than three years, the Commerce Department recently reported. By way of comparison, the nation’s rate of growth was 2.6 percent in t...

Znet Article Sandronsky: The Housing Bust

Znet Article, October, 06 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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The sale prices of existing homes in the Midwest and Northeast are falling as over-all sales across the country are declining, according to the U.S. National Association of Realtors.  In the West, home sales are also down but sale prices remain ro...

Znet Article Sandronsky: A Joint Attack by the Senate and the NLRB

Znet Article, September, 27 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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These are trying times for U.S. labor unions. Their strength is on the wane. There are many reasons why. One reason is a fierce attack by employers and the federal government. Some of the attacks are harder to see than others. A provision in the ...

Znet Article Sandronsky: An Interview with Two Anti-Minuteman Project Activists

Znet Article, November, 09 2005 Seth Sandronsky
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Scott Campbell lives in Oakland, California, and is an organizer with the San Francisco Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen.  He and 600 others protested on October 29 at the state Capitol in Sacramento against the Minuteman Project, which t...

Znet Article Sandronsky: The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens

Znet Article, October, 06 2005 Seth Sandronsky
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The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens

Znet Article Sandronsky: Over 55 in U.S.? Get Back to Work!

Znet Article, March, 15 2005 Seth Sandronsky
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Who took one of every two new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months? Give up? "Over the last year, workers over age 55 accounted for 918,000 of the 1,810,000 rise in employment shown in the (Labor Department's) household survey," say...

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