California Milk Advisory Board to Shoot California Spots in New Zealand
According to a November 13, 2009 article in the Los Angeles Times:

The California Milk Advisory Board may have shot itself in the hoof. The board, which promotes the state's dairy farmers and is overseen by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, is again preparing to film commercials touting California milk from California cows -- in New Zealand. ...In January, it plans to shoot part of its new series of 10 California "Happy Cows" TV commercials in Auckland, taking advantage of that country's low production costs. ...The New Zealand shoot will be filmed over three days on the same sound stage the board used for last year's TV campaign. ...All post-production work will be done in California, where it will take six to eight weeks to finish each commercial.

In their attempt to promote Dairy jobs in California, they are sending Production jobs out of California... in fact, out of the country.  See the full article: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-milk13-2009nov13,0,3679113.story
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New Data Reveals Shift in Union Member Demographics
The face of the union movement has changed dramatically over the past 25 years, according to a new report from the Center for Economic Policy Research. Today, almost half of all union members are women, more than one-third have college degrees and only one in 10 work in manufacturing. By comparison, in 1983, more than half of all union workers were white men, only one in five had a college degree and nearly one-third were in manufacturing.

The new data reveals that the union movement is significantly more diverse than 25 years ago, and the makeup of union members reflects similar shifts in the overall workforce. Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the union movement. In 2008, they represented 12.2 percent of the union workforce, up from 5.8 percent in 1983. The number of Asian Americans in unions has almost doubled in the last 25 years, and, at the current rate, women will be the majority of union workers by 2020.

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New Screen Actors Guild President Appointed to AFL-CIO Executive Council
The AFL-CIO this week elected the new president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ken Howard, to its Executive Council. Howard will fill the seat vacated by former Guild President Alan Rosenberg, who had served on the Federation's Council for three years before stepping down.

"It is a privilege to represent Screen Actors Guild members on the Executive Council and to work closely with the leaders of the national labor movement. I thank the members of the AFL-CIO executive council for the honor of serving with them," Howard said. "Working with President Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and all of my fellow council members, I am looking forward to advancing the interests of SAG members and the millions of workers the AFL-CIO represents through its member unions."

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