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		<title>Chris Christie Tells LIUNA Conference that Atlantic City Construction Could Swell, Pensions May Need to be Addressed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we gave Chris Christie a rightfully hard time for diminishing his commitment to New Jersey&#8217;s Building Trades unions via funding flip-flops and such. But yesterday, Christie uttered words of encouragement to members and leaders of the Laborers&#8217; International Union of America (LIUNA) at their 2012 Northeast Regional Conference: Construction jobs in Atlantic City will ]]></description>
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		<title>Milwauke Ironworker Announces Bid for Wisconsin State Assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organized Labor may add a friendly new face to the Wisconsin State Assembly this year as Randy Bryce, a Milwaukee Ironworker, has announced his filing of the proper paperwork to run in the newly redrawn 62nd District. Bryce is a political coordinator and holds an executive position on the board of Milwaukee Ironworkers Local 8. ]]></description>
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		<title>IN Toll Road Privatization Backfiring as Daniels Departs, but OH Still Considering the Same Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Governor Mitch Daniels&#8217; term ending in January, Indianans are looking to a fresh crop of candidates &#8212; Republican Mike Pence, Democrat John Gregg and Libertarian Rupert Boneham &#8212; to provide innovative answers for how to fund highway construction projects. Daniels&#8217; privatization bug resulted in the lease of Indiana&#8217;s toll road to a foreign consortium ]]></description>
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		<title>Walker&#8217;s Billionaire &#8220;Divide and Conquer&#8221; Backer, Diane Hendricks, Isn&#8217;t Paying State Corporate Taxes</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/16/walkers-billionaire-divide-and-conquer-backer-diane-hendricks-isnt-paying-state-corporate-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the billionaire Scott Walker-backer with whom the Governor shared his &#8220;divide and conquer&#8221; strategy toward unions can give $500,000 to her favorite anti-worker puppet despite not paying a cent in state corporate income tax between the years of 2005 and 2008, the most recent years with records to show. Diane Hendricks, the owner ]]></description>
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		<title>Former Four-Term Tennessee Congressman Files Voter Suppression Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of 70,000 People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln Davis, a former four-term Congressman from Tennessee, went to vote in the 2012 primaries only to find out he had been illegally purged from the voter records. Despite having his proper ID, mandated by newfangled &#8220;Voter ID&#8221; laws &#8212; we refer to them affectionately as Voter Suppression laws &#8212; he was not given the ]]></description>
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		<title>Court Deems $6 Billion Worth of NYC Project Labor Agreements Fully Legal</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/14/court-deems-nyc-project-labor-agreements-fully-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Second Circuit panel has decided that Project Labor Agreements between the City of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) of Greater New York do not violate federal labor laws. The BCTC, which represents roughly 50 regional unions, has $6 billion of work committed to various PLAs through 2014. These PLAs ]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Professor: In Pennsylvania, &#8220;Union Busting Won&#8217;t Help&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett begins with Pennsylvania unions being busted and ends with privatization in the name of &#8220;tax relief.&#8221; While the state&#8217;s money woes could easily be solved by higher taxation on corporations, Corbett is taking pages out of the American For Prosperity/ALEC playbook and demonizing teachers, township workers and union ]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Romney Speech Proves He&#8217;ll Do More Damage to Labor than Bush I, Bush II or Reagan Ever Did</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posting about a video like this is a bittersweet foray. On the one hand, the degree to which Mitt Romney is willing to spew falsehoods regarding organized labor is so outrageous that it must be answered. On the other hand, helping broadcast his smear to even one more viewer (at the time of publication this ]]></description>
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		<title>DEJA-EWW: Chase Bank VP Discovers Fraud, Blows Whistle, Gets Fired</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/14/deja-eww-chase-bank-vp-discovers-fraud-blows-whistle-gets-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laws protecting &#8220;whistleblowers&#8221; have been shot down more frequently than we&#8217;re comfortable with of late, so it is important to hear the stories of those who have done the whistleblowing and the neglect they experienced as result. The Huffington Post recently told the story of Linda Almonte, a former division Vice-President at Chase bank who, ]]></description>
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		<title>Barrett Clobbers Falk, but Mitchell Wins Lt. Gov. Giving Labor a Cause for Honest Enthusiasm</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/09/barrett-mitchell-win-wisconsin-primaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Wisconsin Recall Election primaries went largely as polls predicted with Tom Barrett clobbering Kathleen Falk in the Governor&#8217;s race despite the lion&#8217;s share of union support. Labor&#8217;s other favorite candidate, though, firefighter Mahlon Mitchell, cruised to a victory in the Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s primary with 51 percent of the vote. Labor will have to shift ]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News &#8220;Expert&#8221; Says Giving Women the Right to Vote Was &#8220;One of the Greatest Mistakes America Made&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/09/fox-news-expert-says-giving-women-the-right-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, Tea Party activist and founder of the conservative religious group, Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), has some ideas on where things went wrong with America and they seem to be centered around the 19th amendment. Yes, that 19th amendment. According to Rev. Peterson, the problem is that we let ]]></description>
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		<title>DNC Returns $50,000 of Wal-Mart Gift Cards to Maintain Convention&#8217;s Anti-Corporate Donation Pledge</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/09/dnc-returns-50000-of-wal-mart-gift-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the Democratic National Convention, to be held this September in Charlotte, North Carolina, decided in advance not to accept cash donations from corporations. This has led to funding difficulties. To skirt the imposed regulations, Wal-Mart made an &#8220;in-kind&#8221; donation of $50,000 in gift cards to help with convention costs. However, The Huffington Post ]]></description>
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		<title>Vikings Stadium Bill Clears MN Legislature but Team Owners Will Have to Pay Extra $100M</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The stadium proposal has passed the Senate as well. See who voted how via IUOE Local 49. Minnesota&#8217;s effort to replace the aging Metrodome, where the Minnesota Vikings play, progressed on Monday when the House passed a stadium proposal by a vote of 73-58. It now moves on to the Senate. The $975 stadium ]]></description>
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		<title>Polls Suggest Barrett Has Dem Gov Lead Going Into Wisconsin Primaries Today</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/08/polls-suggest-barrett-has-dem-gov-lead-going-into-wisconsin-primaries-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one Wisconsin Ironworker noted on Facebook last night: &#8220;Tomorrow is the playoffs. Super Bowl is in June!&#8221; While this afternoon&#8217;s cheesehead election drama will not nearly match that of the actual recall election in a month&#8217;s time, there is nonetheless ample intrigue as Democrats, labor unions and other progressive activists have rallied for their ]]></description>
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		<title>Insulators Local 12 Has Rising Star in Movement to Weatherize, Economize Buildings</title>
		<link>http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/05/08/insulators-local-12-has-rising-star-in-movement-to-weatherize-economize-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chaz Bolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mathew Aracich was recently elected to the position of Business Manager of the Heat and Frost Insulators, Local Union 12, after his time as Financial Secretary there. Aracich is in a unique position to promote the importance of his trade as he has been part of the movement to weatherize America and has spent time ]]></description>
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