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The Labor Department released unemployment figures on Friday that showed that the nation\u2019s economy shed yet another 663,000 jobs in March. Since December 2007, the current recession has claimed 5.1 million jobs in the United States bringing the economy to its highest unemployment rate since 1983. Although the majority of job losses are from construction, manufacturing, professional and business services, a decision by the fastest growing union in the U.S. to lay off its own employees has sparked protest. In March, the Service Employees International Union announced plans to layoff 75 of its national field staff and organizing employees. In response, members of the Union of Union Representatives marched outside of SEIU\u2019s Washington D.C. headquarters and have filed charges of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board. SEIU President Andy Stern claimed the layoffs were not prompted by internal finances and instead were based on a planned reorganization of resources that would have the D.C. office primarily dedicated to political lobbying. The UUR contends that the budget problems are in fact the reason, citing among other expenditures, the millions of dollars spent on supporting Obama\u2019s presidential campaign in 2008. <\/p>\n
GUESTS: Sarah Solis, Union Organizer and chief steward of the UUR, Helen Sanders, organizer with SEIU facing layoff, former rank and file worker, Malcolm Harris, President of the UUR<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program The Labor Department released unemployment figures on Friday that showed that the nation\u2019s economy shed yet another 663,000 jobs in March. Since December 2007, the current recession has claimed 5.1 million jobs in the United States bringing the economy to its highest unemployment rate since 1983. Although the majority of job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}