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		<title>Art &amp; Media Committee to Produce Hilarious Jay-Z Parody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAP’s Art &#38; Media Committee members are in full swing as they take the next steps in producing “The Retail Life” – a parodied music video version of rapper Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life.” Retail is one of the few industries that have maintained decent profits even in the midst of recession. But instead of offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Action Project Condemns JC Penney&#8217;s Elimination of Commissioned Sales Positions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: May 10, 2012 Contact: Yana Walton Email:yana@retailactionproject.org Phone:  646-490-5925 Cell Phone:  646-453-9816 Retail Action Project Condemns JC Penney&#8217;s Elimination of Commissioned Sales Positions New York: Today the Retail Action Project (RAP) released this statement regarding JC Penney’s elimination of several commissioned sales positions: RAP strongly opposes the elimination of commissioned sales jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official Statement on JCP&#8217;s Elimination of Commissioned Sales Positions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAP strongly opposes JC Penney’s (JCP) elimination of commissioned sales jobs in its stores across the country. As JCP restructures, the company is divesting from their workforce by eliminating family-sustaining commission retail jobs. JC Penney is following an alarming and misguided trend in the retail industry, in which middle class jobs and career opportunities are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/official-statement-on-jc-penney%e2%80%99s-elimination-of-commissioned-sales-positions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=official-statement-on-jc-penney%25e2%2580%2599s-elimination-of-commissioned-sales-positions</link>
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		<title>Kimberly Ortiz On Her Testimony At Senate Hearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of testifying at a US Senate hearing titled “Beyond Mother’s Day: Helping the Middle Class Balance Work and Family” in Washington, DC. I was on a panel with three other very intelligent and hard-working women: Ann O&#8217; Leary, director of the Children and Families Program, Judith Lichtman, senior advisor at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/kimberly-ortiz-on-her-testimony-at-senate-hearing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kimberly-ortiz-on-her-testimony-at-senate-hearing</link>
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		<title>Retail Action Project Member Sparked Bipartisan Action on Federal Paid Sick Days Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: May 10, 2012 Contact: Yana Walton Email:yana@retailactionproject.org Phone: 646-490-5925 Cell Phone: 646-453-9816 RETAIL ACTION PROJECT MEMBER SPARKED BIPARTISAN ACTION ON PAID SICK DAYS AT MOTHER’S DAY SENATE HEARING US Senator Tom Harkin Cites RAP Report “Discounted Jobs” in HELP Committee Hearing Washington, DC: Today Retail Action Project (RAP) member Kimberly Ortiz testified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/retail-action-project-member-sparked-bipartisan-action-on-federal-paid-sick-days-legislation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=retail-action-project-member-sparked-bipartisan-action-on-federal-paid-sick-days-legislation</link>
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		<title>RAP MemberTestifies Before US Senate on Rebuild America Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 10th, Retail Action Project (RAP) member Kimberly Ortiz testified in support of the Rebuild America Act, introduced by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in a US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senator congressional hearing titled “Beyond Mother’s Day:  Helping the Middle Class Balance Work and Family.” Kimberly&#8217;s testimony begins at 44:20. &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/rap-testifies-before-us-senate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rap-testifies-before-us-senate</link>
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		<title>Auditions for &#8220;It&#8217;s the Retail Life&#8221; RAP Rap &#8211; May 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to be in a rap video or record a song? Are you performing artist who&#8217;s worked retail? If you&#8217;re a current retail worker, or have worked retail in the past 6 months, come translate your experiences working in retail into a parody video to improve the retail industry! Be prepared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/auditions-for-its-the-retail-life-rap-rap-may-10/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=auditions-for-its-the-retail-life-rap-rap-may-10</link>
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		<title>RAP Joins Thousands for May Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="960" height="640" src="http://retailactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/383403_224113581034760_184975614948557_389411_1645989013_n-1.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="383403_224113581034760_184975614948557_389411_1645989013_n (1)" title="383403_224113581034760_184975614948557_389411_1645989013_n (1)" /></div>RAPpers, RWDSU, Unions, OWS protesters, workers, students, activists and others join the thousands in celebrating International Workers Day and demanding better working conditions for retail workers. May 1st MarchBy Retail Action Project &#160;&#124;&#160; View on Facebook]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/rap-joins-thousands-for-may-day/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rap-joins-thousands-for-may-day</link>
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		<title>RAP Screens Two Films at First Workers Unite Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Retail Action Project screened two short films at the first ever Workers Unite! Film Festival in New York City on Sunday, May 6th!  Festival director Andrew Tilson was thrilled to showcase RAP in the shorts program, an organization widely characterized as an exciting and innovative worker center in New York’s labor community. The first piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://retailactionproject.org/2012/05/1695/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=1695</link>
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		<title>May Day &amp; Retail In NYC: Then &amp; Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Retail Action Project came out in force on May 1, 2012 to celebrate International Workers Day. Union Square, the launching point of the march down Broadway, has a long history of worker activism going back to the 1930s. In March of 1930, a massive march for International Unemployment Day gathered in the square demanding job [...]]]></description>
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