February 2012 Retirees Education and Strategy Program

February 2012 Retirees Education and Strategy's Program takes retiree activism to a whole new level!!

"Goodbye Mitt"

"GOODBYE MITT"

Written by Ron McGaha, Retired Western Territory Chief of Staff

Today I read the paper to see what the morning headlines said

“General motor’s is alive and well and Osama Bin Laden’s dead”!

Our President took a chance on both and with a steady hand he led

Now Romney is trying to take the credit, he must be out of his head!

 Did Mitt think we wouldn’t remember that he wanted GM to die?

 And that he didn’t want to “move heaven and earth” to poke Bin Laden’s eye?

 How dare he think we are so easily fooled by his right wing flip flopping lie!

 Please join me at the polls in November to tell Mitt Romney good----bye!

Ron McGaha 2012

Newly Developed Retirees’ Assistance Program (RAP)

In November of 2011, a group of professionals convened to prepare a curriculum for the pilot of the Retirees’ Assistance Program (RAP), which  was kicked off in February 2012.

Asian Pacific Heritage Month

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).

The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.

AFLCIO releases Death on the Job, The Toll of Neglect 2012 Report

The AFLCIO has released the 2012 Death on the Job Report, a national and state-by-state profile of worker safety and health in the United States.

IMF NewsBriefs, No. 7, April 05, 2012

IMF INTERNATIONAL METALWORKERS'FEDERATION

Visit IMF's Website here.

• Congress Website www.building-power.org Goes Live
• Italian Metalworkers at Alcoa Hope for Future Investment
• Colombian Trade Union Leaders Agree to Build IndustriALL in Colombia
• Benteler Strike A Success in Kaluga, Russia
• "Killer Jeans" Remain in Production
• Thousands March for Locked-out Rio Tinto Workers in Canada
• IndustriALL Flag on its Way to the Top of the World
• FLA Report on Apple Fails to Guarantee Workers a Voice
• Successful National Strike in Spain
• Kosovo Union President Arrested
• Demand Justice for Workers at Apple Supplier in Turkey
• Global Solidarity of Bosh Workers Reinforced
• Fortune's World's Most Admired Metal Companies are Unionized
• Revisit on Safety Improvements at ArcelorMittal's Vinton Steel
• Labour Code Adoption in Kyrgyzstan Postponed to June 1
• Around 400 Workers Will Lose Their Jobs as Johnson Controls Announces Closure of Puebla Plant
• GM Workers in Saint-Petersburg Area, Russia, Secure Wage Hike
• Power Loom Workers Arrested on Charges of Extortion at Karachi, Pakistan

Happy Cinco de Mayo Day!

Not to be confused with Mexican Independence Day, which occurs on September 16, Cinco de Mayo is a voluntarily observed holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.  In Mexico, it is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla. While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.

source:  Wikipedia