Employee Free Choice Act
On Thursday, June 21, the Senate will vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Please call your Senators NOW and ask them to vote YES on the Employee Free Choice Act (S.1041) Call the US Capitol switchboard at 1-800-774-8941 and ask for the offices of your two senators. EFCA will restore workers’ freedom to collectively bargain for a better life. Explain to your senators that buy voting Yes on EFCA it will: 1) strengthen penalties for companies that coerce or intimidate employees; 2) establish mediation and binding arbitration when the employer and workers cannot agree on a first contract; and 3) enable employees to form unions when a majority express their decision to join the union by signing authorization cards.
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“Verizon (NYSE:VZ) officials announced Thursday that the carrier will once again offer Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Kin ONEm and Kin TWOm mobile devices – this time as featured phones, instead of smartphones. Verizon rebranded the phones from the original Kin One and Kin Two, which were launched in April, based on the software differences in the newly-named devices. The older Kin phones were more like the Windows Phone 7, based on their own OS. The new devices are priced at .99 with a two-year contract for the Kin ONEm (or 9.99 without a contract), and .99 for the Kin TWOm with a contract (or 9.99 without a contract). A bonus buy one get one free add-on is being offered by Verizon for Kin TWOm customers, who can opt in for a free LG Ally. The Kin-family phones, which originally aimed to appeal to younger mobile users, offer similar social network access to Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, as well as Zune with Wi-Fi sideload and multi-media messaging. The phones previously required a data plan, which Verizon has done now away with. A spokesperson for Verizon told PCMag.com, “”They provide an option for customers who liked the form factor of the previous Kin phones, but want an Internet-capable device that doesn’t require a data plan.”” Verizon Communications has a potential upside of 2.1% based on a current price of .65 and an average consensus analyst price target of .32. On October 12, 2010, the company was upgraded from Hold to Buy, with a price …
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