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Friday's Week-Ending News Briefs
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Union Town is Union Made - If you enjoyed the rabble-rousing music video at the top of this page, you'll like this interview with the musician and activist who created it. Tom Morello, known as The Nightwatchman, grow up in a union home and has spent his career advocating for workers rights. He talked with Teamster Magazine about his union experiences. Also, check out SaveWorkers.org for a free download of the song.
 U.S. Debt Limit 101 - What's the Federal Debt Limit and why is it important? Over the past decade, the Treasury has borrowed trillions of dollars to finance military interventions in 2 countries, unfunded tax cuts, and rescue our financial system from collapse. There's a limit to how much the US can borrow, and we'll hit that limit in May. What will happen if Congress doesn't raise it? Briefly …
The Network Behind the War on Unions - Inspired by Ronald Reagan, a web of free-market think tanks you've probably never heard of has fueled the nationwide attack on workers' rights. Conceived by the same ideologues who helped found the Heritage Foundation and funded with conservative moneyed interests, the State Policy Network (SPN) has a simple mission: back a constellation of state-level think tanks that rail against unions, regulations and tax increases…When SPN think tanks are not providing conservative lawmakers with ammo, they're providing them with cover as they take on organized labor. We should know who's behind the full frontal assault on the Middle Class.
 NLRB on The Offense - The National Labor Relations Board says it will move ahead with lawsuits seeking to invalidate state constitutional amendments in Arizona and South Dakota that require workers to hold secret ballot elections before a company can be unionized. It's the latest in a series of high-profile steps the agency has taken to defend union rights since gaining a Democratic majority last year for the first time in nearly a decade. And it comes as Republican state legislators are enacting anti-union laws in many states as budget-cutting efforts.
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