Odds are, if you don't live in Yuma or aren't part of a union, you weren't one of the lucky ones granted a health care waiver from the "we have to pass it so we can see what's inside" ObamaCaresLess law.
Here are the Arizona companies who were granted a waiver. Notice a pattern?
PHOENIX
AAA Landscaping
Cigna
Mesa Air Group
SAN LUIS
Spindle Cooling Warehouse
City of San Luis
SCOTTSDALE
Dennys
Macayos Restaurant
Phoenix Children's Academy
PREMC Inc
SOMERTON
Citris Care
Famco A/C and Refrigeration
Fresh Harvest
Griffin Ranches
TUCSON
Beacon Group SW
YUMA
Air Central Heating and Cooling
CB Harvesting PRM Health Plan
DPE Construction
F.I.R.M. Inc
GC Harvesting
Glen Curtis #2143
Gowan Company
JLG Harvesting
Kerley Homes of Yuma
L & R Corp
Pasquinelli Produce Co
Polar Cooling
Quick Refrigerating
Royal Medjool Date Farms
Sarah Farms
Skyview Cooling
Smittys Body Shop
Specialty Electric
Topflavor Farms
ARIZONA UNIONS
American Radio Association Plans Mesa
IBEW Local 640 Health and Welfare Trust Fund Phoenix
Southwestern Teamsters Security Fund Phoenix
United Food and Commerical Workers Union (UFCW) Phoenix
Other major unions throughout the country received waivers as well like:
SEIU
UFCW
Plumbers and Pipefitters
Pipetrades
LiUNA
Laundry and dry cleaning workers
retail/wholesale/dept. store union
UNITE HERE
Perhaps a little digging into what candidates these companies/unions donated to might be in order?
We already know who the UFCW, Pipefitters, LiUNA, UNITE HERE, SEIU support.
Showing posts with label UNITE HERE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNITE HERE. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Unions: A Closer Look at UNITE HERE
Aside from a glowing endorsement to Randy Parraz's failed Senate campaign, UNITE HERE has been an active force on a national scale.
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members. The union's members work predominately in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries. The union was formed in 2004 by the merger of UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union).
In 2005, UNITE HERE withdrew from the AFL-CIO and joined the Change to Win Federation along with several other unions, including the Teamsters, SEIU and the UFCW. In May 2009 union president Bruce Raynor (originally from UNITE) left UNITE HERE, taking with him numerous local unions and between 105,000 and 150,000 members, mostly garment workers. They formed a new SEIU affiliate called Workers United.
On September 17, 2009, UNITE HERE announced that it would re-affiliate with the AFL-CIO.
Parraz was working for the AFL-CIO during the same time UNITE HERE was formed in 2004. Parraz also has ties to the UFCW (United Food and Commerical Workers).
New Haven, CT 2005
Phoenix 2006
Chicago 2009
San Francisco 2009
Members of UNITE HERE travelled to the state to participate in the Arizona protest of SB1070 July 29 2010 march.
Members of UNITE HERE Local 11 in Los Angeles will be among more than 550 members of Los Angeles unions, faith, and community groups, who will travel in a long caravan of 11 chartered buses bound for Phoenix on the day SB 1070 is scheduled to go into effect.
...Petra Falcon, director of Promise Arizona and one of the event's Arizona hosts, says she helped arrange the visit because "we believe it is extraordinarily important to look at the passage of SB 1070 and other similar legislation in the context of the continued struggles of all working people in Arizona, and of our state and federal lawmakers' failure to address those struggles."
As stated before, UNITE HERE contributed $20,000 to Raquel Teran and Petra Falcon's Promise Arizona en Accion (PAZ) the day that it was registered with the Arizona Secretary of State's office in September 2011. This was after the candidate, Jerry Lewis, emerged to run against sitting Senate President, Russell Pearce.
The funds from this organization were used to "defeat Pearce" by encouraging people to vote for Jerry Lewis.
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members. The union's members work predominately in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries. The union was formed in 2004 by the merger of UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union).
In 2005, UNITE HERE withdrew from the AFL-CIO and joined the Change to Win Federation along with several other unions, including the Teamsters, SEIU and the UFCW. In May 2009 union president Bruce Raynor (originally from UNITE) left UNITE HERE, taking with him numerous local unions and between 105,000 and 150,000 members, mostly garment workers. They formed a new SEIU affiliate called Workers United.
On September 17, 2009, UNITE HERE announced that it would re-affiliate with the AFL-CIO.
Parraz was working for the AFL-CIO during the same time UNITE HERE was formed in 2004. Parraz also has ties to the UFCW (United Food and Commerical Workers).
New Haven, CT 2005
Phoenix 2006
Chicago 2009
San Francisco 2009
Members of UNITE HERE travelled to the state to participate in the Arizona protest of SB1070 July 29 2010 march.
Members of UNITE HERE Local 11 in Los Angeles will be among more than 550 members of Los Angeles unions, faith, and community groups, who will travel in a long caravan of 11 chartered buses bound for Phoenix on the day SB 1070 is scheduled to go into effect.
...Petra Falcon, director of Promise Arizona and one of the event's Arizona hosts, says she helped arrange the visit because "we believe it is extraordinarily important to look at the passage of SB 1070 and other similar legislation in the context of the continued struggles of all working people in Arizona, and of our state and federal lawmakers' failure to address those struggles."
As stated before, UNITE HERE contributed $20,000 to Raquel Teran and Petra Falcon's Promise Arizona en Accion (PAZ) the day that it was registered with the Arizona Secretary of State's office in September 2011. This was after the candidate, Jerry Lewis, emerged to run against sitting Senate President, Russell Pearce.
The funds from this organization were used to "defeat Pearce" by encouraging people to vote for Jerry Lewis.
How the Left was Won
One of the organizations who helped gather signatures, canvass, and collect completed ballots for the LD 18 recall election was Promise Arizona en Accion (PAZ). The founders of this organization include Petra Falcon and Raquel Teran.
This post will focus on Raquel Teran.
Teran's resume reads like the ideal Community Organizer. Complete with the Center for Progressive Leadership training.
Raquel is a community organizer who helps improve the life of Arizonans through dignity and justice. Raquel currently works on a grassroots coalition which involves community base organizations, unions, leaders, and workers. As an organizer for the coalition, she helps to mobilize the community to send a message of no tolerance to disrespect and injustice to the community. Previously she served as an organizer for SEIU, where she recruited and trained employees to organize.
Through other coalitions and organizations she has greatly been involved in the fight for immigration reform. She has worked with the Latino community to promote voter participation, increase new citizenship applicants, and has organized immigration forums to keep the community informed of current immigration issues affecting the immigrant community.
She was actively involved with Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability along with Randy Parraz back in 2008. The goal of MCSA was to hold the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff's office accountable.
Her most recent endeavor is Promise Arizona's action arm, Promise Arizona en Accion. PAZ received a $20,000 infusion from the union UNITE HERE on the day that the group first registered with the Arizona Secretary of State's office. UNITE HERE endorsed Randy Parraz in his failed Senate campaign in 2010.
PAZ also received an "in kind" labor donation of $9000 from a group called Campaign for Community Change. We'll look at these two groups in depth later.
The job of PAZ was to get out the young, Latino vote.
PAZ were active in recruiting, training and engaging their members. They even boldly canvassed conservative LD18 wearing the matching t-shirts with the "POWER fist" emblazoned on the front which said, "Don't Let SB-1070 Happen Again".
Speaking at the AzAN immigration Forum in 2009. Arizona Advocacy Network
Somos Leaders Workshops are organized to train future leaders in areas of grant writing and proposals, personal narratives and grassroots fundraising. (Classes taught by Teran and Parraz)
The poster reads, "Increase the vote (?) of civic engagement within the under represented minority community and change the political landscape of Arizona by developing new leaders, educating through house meetings, voter registration training and movement building training."
(3:16) "Cuidado Joe Arpaio! We're coming after you!"
(Any Republican who is willing to turn a blind eye from these kinds of leftist, radical groups who actively campaigned on their behalf by justifying that they never personally met them, should be ashamed of themselves. They aren't the kind of Republicans the party needs.)
This post will focus on Raquel Teran.
Raquel is a community organizer who helps improve the life of Arizonans through dignity and justice. Raquel currently works on a grassroots coalition which involves community base organizations, unions, leaders, and workers. As an organizer for the coalition, she helps to mobilize the community to send a message of no tolerance to disrespect and injustice to the community. Previously she served as an organizer for SEIU, where she recruited and trained employees to organize.
Through other coalitions and organizations she has greatly been involved in the fight for immigration reform. She has worked with the Latino community to promote voter participation, increase new citizenship applicants, and has organized immigration forums to keep the community informed of current immigration issues affecting the immigrant community.
She was actively involved with Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability along with Randy Parraz back in 2008. The goal of MCSA was to hold the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff's office accountable.
Her most recent endeavor is Promise Arizona's action arm, Promise Arizona en Accion. PAZ received a $20,000 infusion from the union UNITE HERE on the day that the group first registered with the Arizona Secretary of State's office. UNITE HERE endorsed Randy Parraz in his failed Senate campaign in 2010.
PAZ also received an "in kind" labor donation of $9000 from a group called Campaign for Community Change. We'll look at these two groups in depth later.
The job of PAZ was to get out the young, Latino vote.
PAZ were active in recruiting, training and engaging their members. They even boldly canvassed conservative LD18 wearing the matching t-shirts with the "POWER fist" emblazoned on the front which said, "Don't Let SB-1070 Happen Again".
Speaking at the AzAN immigration Forum in 2009. Arizona Advocacy Network
The poster reads, "Increase the vote (?) of civic engagement within the under represented minority community and change the political landscape of Arizona by developing new leaders, educating through house meetings, voter registration training and movement building training."
(3:16) "Cuidado Joe Arpaio! We're coming after you!"
(Any Republican who is willing to turn a blind eye from these kinds of leftist, radical groups who actively campaigned on their behalf by justifying that they never personally met them, should be ashamed of themselves. They aren't the kind of Republicans the party needs.)
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