A Monday morning round-up of news pertaining to labor unions, union campaigns, plus a scattering of news on health care and banks.

• For more than two years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has had just two of its five members. This weekend that ended, as President Obama announced the appointment of two seats on the NLRB to Democrat nominees Craig Becker and Mark Pearce.
• Proving that some of the best ideas for saving money, increasing efficiency, and improving government services come from employees on the front lines, two SEIU members--Lonney Dickinson and Nancy Fichtner--and have recently won awards and gained recognition for their cost-saving ideas.
• A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that unionization substantially improves the pay and benefits of immigrant workers.
• 1199SEIU healthcare workers launched an intensive ad campaign Friday spotlighting Baltimore caregivers who are paid so little they can't afford health insurance for their own children.
• Wednesday's the deadline to vote in the first-ever global Labouglobal r Video of the Year.
• If you're in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area...The Young Trade Unionists' 1st Annual Networking & Career Fair will be held on May 1, 2010 from 9am - 12pm.

• Two new tax benefits aid employers who hire and retain unemployed workers.
• The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has launched a new global campaign to help global unions combine their day-to-day work and help young people join unions. Check out ITUC's blog here.
• In Illinois, Governor Quinn, Speaker Madigan and President Cullerton collectively threw state and municipal workers under the bus last week in a hasty political move that cut pensions, upped the retirement age, reduced COLAs and capped retirement earnings.

And a few other newsworthy items of interest...

• The revamp of the Child Nutrition Act is one step closer to passage. The legislation includes provisions to improve training for food service workers and has new nutrition standards for all food served in schools.
• A helpful chart showing how the Affordable Care Act is financed. (h/t Ezra Klein)
• The Bank of North Dakota is currently the nation's only state-owned bank, but there is an ever-growing movement for publicly owned banks.
• In the wake of reported threats on Democratic officials due to their health care votes, Media Matters for America takes a look back at the right-wing media's history of violent rhetoric. (Including don't-miss comments by Sarah Palin, RedState's Erick Erickson, and of course, Glenn Beck).
• The amount of abuse in Medicare billing at nursing homes may be on the rise, and federal analysts for HHS are examining the billing programs at homes across the country, including North American Health Care (NAHC).

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