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USC workers defeat SEIU, the Weissman Group and their anti-union employer

This is what workers leading the labor movement looks like: The Weissmann Group is a union avoidance firm.

Dolores Huerta visits Kaiser workers joining NUHW

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On May 14, healthcare workers at Kaiser Modesto invited United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta to have lunch with them in their cafeteria. Kaiser tried to shut her out, and SEIU representatives tried to insult her, but she met with workers for two hours to support their effort to organize with the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Here are two photographs from Huerta's visit:

Why you should say "no" to Facebook's new profile settings

If you're not aware of how Facebook is gradually eroding your right to privacy, you should click on this link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's timeline of changes in Facebook's privacy settings . You should also note a basic NYT webguide, 3 Settings every Facebook user should know , highlighting some simple steps you can take to protect your privacy on Facebook. (Here's more current links: PC Mag and PCWorld ) However, having viewed Facebook's most recent changes, changes that go beyond the issue of privacy settings, I have come to the conclusion that the anti-Facebook argument has more and more merit. Protecting your privacy using Facebook's settings is no longer enough . Facebook's latest changes effectively mean that even if you change your settings to protect your privacy following the steps above, that the personal information you share on Facebook, the sequence of groups, organizations, locales and affiliations that in part make you who you a