The mission of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a membership organization, is to protect, preserve, promote, and ensure the financial security, health, and the well being of current and future generations of maturing Americans.

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare acts in the best interests of its members through advocacy, education, services, grassroots efforts, and the leadership of the Board of Directors and professional staff.

The efforts of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare are directed toward developing better-informed citizens and voters.

Some Additional Information:

• Seniors Brace for Another Year without a COLA
• Cutting Contributions to Social Security Signals the Beginning of the End
• National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
• Entitled to Know: The Truth About Social Security & Medicare

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The IAM represents 16,000 United Airlines employees in Ramp, Stores, Public Contact, Fleet Technical Instructor, Maintenance Instructor, Security Guard and Food Service classifications and another 76 employees at Mileage Plus, Inc. The IAM also represents Continental Airlines’ 9,500 Flight Attendants as well as 250 Flight Attendants at Continental’s wholly owned subsidiary Continental Micronesia and 1,200 Flight Attendants at Continental and United’s regional partner, ExpressJet Airlines.

We will also have Jim Klatt, Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Union Sportsmen’s Alliancelocated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in 2004 after retiring from his marketing and advertising agency business in Minneapolis. He worked as a grassroots organizer for TRCP conservation programs across the country and helped launch the cooperative efforts between TRCP and Labor Unions that eventually lead to the formation of the USA.

Jim has been a conservation leader for many years both in Minnesota and around the country. He helped found the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance in 1994 and was president for 8 years. MOHA was instrumental in passing two landmark constitutional amendments in Minnesota. The first, in 1998, guarantees the right to hunt, fish and trap in the state, and the second, in 2009, dedicates a percentage of the state sales tax to conservation. In 2008 he was selected as Conservation Person of the Year in Minnesota.

He is a graduate of Michigan State University and spent many years working in communications, from editing national magazines, to directing communications and recruitment for Peace Corps and VISTA. He has hung his, hat, and hunted and fished, in British Columbia, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Missouri and New York.

The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance will be hosting a Houston Shoot on Saturday, April 24, 2010, with registration at 7:30 a.m. and a Shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. and lunch and A raffle to follow. The event will take place at the Rio Brazos Sporting Clays in Simon, Texas. You do not have to be an experienced shooter; new shooter instruction will take place from 8-9 a.m. All proceeds from this event support the USA and national & local conservation efforts. Deadline for entering is April 12, 2010. For more information, please call Heather Tazelaar at 1-877-872-2211 or email HethT@trcp.org. More information on the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance can be found at http://www.unionsportsmen.org/.

Download the "STATEMENT OF CRAIG BECKER NOMINEE FOR MEMBER, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Bill has been the Director of Labor Studies for CCBC since 1997, and has maintained a program started in the 1970s by Rev Everett L. Miller, Sr., to help put the move back into the labor movement. The program offers an Associate Degree in Labor Studies, and is one of the very few in the United States which has not become either a research facility or been swallowed up into an “industrial relations” program. The program offers all of the basic union training courses, trying to answer the basic question: how are workers trying to make their lives better? The programs stresses worker self-reliance, and has a motto “Teaching Workers to Teach Themselves.” Classes are taught through the middle-Atlantic states, and on-line, and the program is experimenting with pod casting and with streaming video.

The book, Union Strategies for Hard Times: Helping Your Members and Building Your Union in the Great Recession, has chapters on how to handle grievances, negotiate contracts without concessions, how to make your union the center of activity for active and laidoff members, and their communities.

There is a brief historical discussion of how we got where we are and how unionism is the solution, and not the problem, for the current economic crisis.

We'll also have a piece from veteran Labor journalist, Dick Meister.  Dick says we've not paid enough attention to one of the key aspects of President Obama's recent State of the Union Address -- his promise to "crack down on violations of equal pay laws, so that women get equal pay for an equal day's work."

We also played a speech from Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President, addressing the National Press Club on January 11, 2010.  The newly elected leader of the nation's largest labor union spoke about the state of the economy and its impact on families, as well as some of the proposed legislation that could impact the labor movement.

Christine mentioned the recent launch of "UCubed".  Ur Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed, is a community service project of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). With over 31 million Americans idled to some degree by this Grave Recession – and no relief in sight — the IAM and its partners saw a need to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way.

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