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"All that serves labor serves the nation. All that harms is treason...If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar...There is no America without labor,and to fleece one is to rob the other"... Abraham Lincoln
Building a Foundation
When a store sells "Chemistry For Dummies" for just $6.46, is it any surprise if it gets some dummy chemists? Police in Oklahoma arrested a woman on charges of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine inside a Tulsa Walmart on Thursday.
Shopper Alisha Halfmoon, 45, allegedly grabbed ingredients from the shelves and mixed chemicals inside the store, KJRH reports. "While speaking with some of the firefighters on the scene she made statements that that's what she was doing; that she was attempting to obtain these chemicals and was in the process of trying to manufacture methamphetamine," police officer David Shelby told the station. "However, she said that she was not very good at it." After Halfmoon had spent more than six hours inside Walmart, loss prevention officers alerted police about the suspect's suspicious behavior in the back of the store, according to News 9. When an officer confronted Halfmoon at around 6 p.m., the suspect had allegedly just finished mixing a bottle of sulfuric acid with starter fluid, Shelby told Fox 23. Walmart is known for its low, low prices, but Shelby said she couldn't afford to buy the drug ingredients.At the time of her arrest, Halfmoon had managed to round up meth ingredients including lithium and chemical drain cleaner, Tulsa World reports. Security cameras recorded the suspect allegedly mixing chemicals, according to KRMG. While removing the volatile brew, one officer was treated for chemicals burns after he felt a burning sensation through his leather glove, according to Tulsa World. This isn't Halfmoon's first arrest on drug charges. The Tulsa County Jail website indicates that the suspect was charged with possession of methamphetamine and obtaining a drug using a forged or altered prescription on Nov 17. She was issued a deferred sentence and released on bond
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Crippling the Right to Organize
UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on the National Labor Relations Board, which protects collective bargaining, are vacant, and on Dec. 31, the term of Craig Becker, a labor lawyer whom President Obama named to the board last year through a recess appointment, will expire. Without a quorum, the Supreme Court ruled last year, the board cannot decide cases.
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Read more...Knight: Teamsters’ strength stands up to power
The Teamsters’ strike at US Foods in Streator may be over by the time this is out, but in less than a month, the union already has shown that a determined few can stand up for themselves; with their union brothers and sisters they can stand up to the rich and powerful; they can use traditional tactics, exemplified by the solidarity of sympathy strikes; and they also can be creative, resorting to actions such as “rolling strikes” — short work stoppages here and there where a common employer operates.
Read more...News Flash
About 40 employees of an Oakland, Calif., marijuana-growing company joined the Teamsters union earlier this month, becoming what are believed to be the first pot growers to unionize in the country.
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