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UCubed Launches Bee Mad at The GOP Campaign
A new Facebook campaign by the Union of Unemployed (UCubed) has the World Wide Web buzzing with disdain and anger for GOP members of Congress whose policies have kept the jobless broke and out-of-work.
Thirty-five States End Emergency Jobless Benefits
After this week, no state will provide additional weeks of emergency unemployment insurance. More than a half million workers will be affected.
UCubed Slams GOP ‘Chutzpah’ Over Jobs Data
Anemic employment figures released by the U.S. Labor Department mark the third straight month of weak hiring and rounds out a poor second quarter for 2012. The real unemployment rate rose to 17.3 percent as the number of real unemployed workers increased by 463,000 in June, fueling concerns that the economy has taken a turn for the worse.
The Rise and Fall of Wealth in the U.S.
The Great Recession has erased nearly two decades of the average American family’s net worth, leaving many no better off than they were in the early 1990s, says a new report by the Federal Reserve.
UCubed Mission Touches Right Wing Nerve Center
Last week, the Union of the Unemployed (UCubed) registered on the radar screens of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Daily Caller, Human Events aka the John Birch Society, the Drudge Report, the Romantic Poet, Fox Business News and literally thousands of their fruitcake friends went bananas over the idea that UCubed would even try to organize the unemployed.
Standing Up
The strike by 3,600 IAM members at Lockheed Martin is fast becoming a symbol of what many unions across the country are facing: profitable corporations pitting current workers against new hires in an attempt to achieve deep and permanent concessions.
TV Worth Watching: ‘Money, Power and Wall Street’
Three years after America's largest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the U.S. economy is still unsteady. While some banks received huge bailouts, countless Americans are struggling. A new four-hour documentary by PBS FRONTLINE investigates what has been done (and not done) to secure America's financial future.
Tell Congress to Stop UI Debit Card Fees
Prepaid bank cards provide the jobless easy access to their benefits and can help those without a bank account avoid check-cashing fees and the risk of carrying cash. However, Big Banks are stinging too many unemployed Americans with unnecessary and hidden costs.
Battles Rage over Drug Tests for Unemployed
Senate Democrats have offered an emergency plan for extending unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for millions of jobless Americans whose benefits are set to expire on February 29, 2012.
Pelosi Speaks in Support of Workers’ Rights
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor yesterday against the Republicans’ so-called Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act.
Breaking faith with jobless Americans over an applause line
The president seems to have forgotten all about these people, who are trying to get by in an economy that is shedding as many jobs as it creates. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the aviation industry has been among the hardest hit. America's aviation manufacturers shipped a total of more than 6,000 airplanes in 2007 and 2008. The total for 2010 was 1,334. Net factory billings fell to less than $8 billion last year from more than $13 billion in 2008, retrenchment to a level not seen since 2004. The biggest losers have been industry workers who have lost their jobs.
Jobs Crisis Pushes More Families into Poverty
New data released by the Census Bureau shows that nearly one in six Americans now lives below the federal poverty line – earning less than $22,314 a year for a family of four. Not only did the poverty level jump, but household income dropped below 1997 levels. The only group to have significant income gains were the richest one percent of Americans.
Union of Unemployed Demands Real Solutions in Obama Jobs Speech
Union of Unemployed (UCubed) calls on the White House to deliver real, robust and immediate solutions to our nation’s jobs crisis in tonight’s presidential address on jobs.
UCubed Announces the ‘Pink Slip Primary’
The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) will be holding its own election ahead of the 2012 primaries. Aimed at focusing the U.S. political agenda on JOBS Now! and giving the jobless a chance to vote for or against presidential candidates who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk, UCubed is introducing the “Pink Slip Primary.”
A Vision for Economic Renewal -- An American Jobs Agenda
America is facing a catastrophic jobs crisis. Not since the Great Depression has official unemployment hovered above nine percent -- where it is today -- for more than 20 months. Millions of American have given up looking for a job altogether. Even worse, real unemployment is more than 18%. Yet Washington overall has obviously yet to embrace a large-scale job creation agenda. Even if we reach consensus around the deficit -- the only economic issue even getting any attention these days -- it will do little to help the 29 million Americans who are unemployed in real terms. If we do not seriously tackle jobs, our country may never regain its competitive global edge.
Updated UCubed Map Showcases Broad GOP Attack on Jobless
More than 6.8 million jobless Americans are about to see their situations go from bad to worse.
GOP Spending Cuts Stalls Job Growth
The GOP promise in the 2010 elections that “getting government out of the way” by cutting spending would create jobs is turning out to have the effect most economists expected – more layoffs.
Debt Talks Must Address Jobs Crisis
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are in private talks to raise the U.S. debt ceiling – the legal limit on borrowing by the federal government. The $4 trillion deal is expected to include a mix of spending cuts and new taxes – but nothing to create jobs.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress and the White House a deal forged without measures to spur job growth is a bad deal, doomed from the start. Tell leaders do not ignore jobs and the unemployed.
Union of Unemployed Warns of Double Dip Recession
The specter of a double dip recession came roaring back to life with the news from the U.S. Labor Department that the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, with only 18,000 jobs added in June.
Hindery Argues for Sound U.S. Manufacturing Policy
In an op-ed published on The Huffington Post, Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, explains “Why We Need a Manufacturing Renaissance – Economically and Ethically.”
The Machinists Take Netroots
June 22, 2011 - The Netroots Convention, held in Minneapolis this year, brought together more than 2,000 progressives from every walk of life.
UCubed Attends 6th Annual Netroots Nation Convention
The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) joined thousands of labor activists and progressive bloggers at the 2011 Netroots Nation Convention in Minneapolis, MN.
UCubed Targets Wall Street in ‘The Game’
The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) is drawing renewed attention to the economic crisis with the release of a new online video entitled The Game.
Pawlenty Endorses Union of Unemployed?
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty came very close to endorsing the Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed. “While not a full-throated endorsement,” explained UCubed Executive Director Rick Sloan, “the former Minnesota governor is whispering our tune.”
‘Going Back on the Deal’
An op-ed published in the New York Times this week reveals GOP attempts to double-cross American voters – particularly, the unemployed.
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