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Thursday News: Youfa Misms

by rba

Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 08:24:41 AM EST

Zachary Slobig/AFP: Welcome to Stockton: foreclosure capital USA ". . . "short sales" . . In this arrangement, the borrower provides evidence of financial hardship and the lender agrees to assume a loss and sell the house below the amount owed on the mortgage."
The buyer gets screwed, the agent makes a commission, and the bank writes off the "loss".

Zusha Elinson/Recorder: Calif. Law School Dumps Chemerinsky as Founding Dean
"He said I proved to be too politically controversial," Chemerinsky said in a phone interview from his Durham, N.C., home. .. Drake told The Recorder he didn't back away from Chemerinsky because of the professor's views on any specific subject. But the fact Chemerinsky was a "lightning rod" did enter into the decision.

"UC-Irvine's Donald Bren School of Law is set to open its doors in fall 2009. The school was recently named for Donald Bren, a real estate mogul and major Republican donor who gave $20 million to the law school last month."

Cash the check, decline the prof. Bass-ackwards.

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Thursday News: Youfa Misms | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

Bless the Nurses (5.00 / 1) (#1)

From the Ventura County StarTim Herdt's Militants in tennis shoes

The CNA [California Nursing Association] has grown from 18,000 members in 1992 to 75,000 today. It has become a national force in recent years, picking up bargaining units in Illinois and Maine, and adding to its name: It's now the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

Earlier this year, it affiliated with the AFL-CIO -- an action that was not coincidentally followed by the national union's decision to make healthcare its top priority in the 2008 election year.

MSNBC last year named CNA Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro to its list of the "10 most influential women in America," alongside such heavyweights as Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Pelosi.

In the political arena, the CNA in 2004 hound Schwarzenegger to such distraction, he famously blurted that line about "kicking their butts." Nurse protesters continued to disrupt every Schwarzenegger fundraiser in 2005, and if they weren't solely responsible for defeating his special-election ballot measures, they certainly softened him up.

Polling at the time showed that nurses, by virtue of their profession and reputation, had more credibility with voters than any other group.

Hat tip to LibPatriot on Buzzflash

by Cho on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 09:45:11 AM EST

CNA (none / 0) (#2)

went into traditionally "Doilies & Tea" negotiations with (primarily) hospitals back in the mid-80's. In one instance management of a local hospital actually did invite the "ladies" in for coffee & confab to "discuss" their position. By putting "Association" as their tag, they tended to surprise the somewhat calcified hospital management teams during negotiations.

Funny to remember that some of the membership actually denied they were in a union. "No, it's a professional association."

[Got family in the "trade", and watched as they became "labor aware".]

by rba on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 10:09:37 AM EST
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just recently edited a book (5.00 / 1) (#3)

on nursing and was fascinated by the conflict between the desire to be considered professionals/ and the need to organize as labor.

Interestingly, I watched my Dad go through much the same conflict when the Newspaper Reporters Guild was organizing -- Many reporters felt that they were professionals and should not organize into a union -- thus the "Guild" nomenclature.

by Cho on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 10:31:46 AM EST
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Union (none / 0) (#4)

is a dirty word. If you say it's "an organization formed to collectively bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions", most of the time they say "oh, okay". Too many workers today still believe "union" and "professional" are mutually exclusive, when the reality is they are one and the same.

by rba on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 11:04:25 AM EST
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