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• Rahm: Passing Health Care Will Be Just Like Passing NAFTA

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 741
  In case you had any doubts the passage of the health care bill will be just as disastrous for Democrats and the labor movement as the rout of 1994, Rahm Emanuel is here to reassure you. It will be just like NAFTA! And Rahm thinks that’s a good thing . White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling ...
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• Young people need good jobs now

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 144
  The following was written by Liz Shuler and Donna Dewitt - Shuler is the secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Dewitt is the president of the SC AFL-CIO and Co-chair of the SC Progressive Network . As the new year rolls in, a four-letter word is on everyone’s lips: jobs.With the unemployment rate at red-alert ...
  3 days ago

• AFL-CIO Calls for a Better Bill

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 794
  The AFL-CIO responded to the passage of the Senate health bill with this post on their blog : While passage of this legislation continues the momentum for health care reform, the Senate bill itself doesn’t live up to the kind of reform we need. The bill has many positive features, but it falls short in three ...
  4 days ago

• Reaction from the Right – and Left – to Health Care vitriolic

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 455
  This morning, as millions of Americans prepared to gather with their families in celebration of Christmas, President Obama and Harry Reid gathered with their liberal allies in celebration of government. RNC Chairman Michael Steele • Regarding the health care plan’s passage. Man, Mikey, you’re a regular Mitch ...
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• Union Blocks Red Cross Blood Donation

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 446
  -By Warner Todd HustonIn their greedy desire to steal even more money from employers one union has even gone so far as to block Red Cross blood donations from getting to a hospital as well as picketing blood drives from private companies. In other words, these union thugs have put money and their quest for [...]
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• SEIU’s Civil War: Principled Stand or Megalomania?

  
  La Frontera Times — Authority: 441
  
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• Oregon gags oppressive employers

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 495
  Another first-in-the-nation for disgraced labor-state The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Associated Oregon Industries filed a lawsuit Tuesday, arguing that a new Oregon law unconstitutionally eliminates an employer’s right to conduct mandatory meetings with employees to rebut union rhetoric and provide information ...
  5 days ago

• Trade Unionists ask Richard Trumka to support boycott of Israel

  
  Willamette Reds — Authority: 130
  Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, stated at an October 2009 dinner of the Jewish Labor Committee:  "And tonight, let me tell you that, so long as Im president, you will never have a stronger ally than the AFL-CIO.  Thats why were proud to stand with the JLC to oppose boycotting Israel." In response, trade ...
  5 days ago

• Nurses Union: Senate Bill Isn’t Real Health Reform

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 741
  NNU rally via National Nurses United on Flickr The National Nurses Uni ted, a brand new union created earlier this month and the largest professional group of nurses in the country, officially opposes the Senate health care bill. NNU, a member of the AFL-CIO, slammed the Senate bill as a giveaway to the ...
  6 days ago

• This Just In: Elves issue strike notice against Santa, Christmas in jeopardy

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 115
  I just received this from the North Pole.  It’s almost unbelievable, given the spirit of the season . . . and the billions of children who would be affected. In response to the strike notice, Santa Claus has made the following announcement: It’s a little unclear what the NLRB’s jurisdiction is in this ...
  6 days ago

• The AFL-CIOs Problems with the Senate Health Care Revision Bill: "Bailout of the Insurance Industry"

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 137
  From Workday Minnesota The federation is frustrated with the health care revision bill for several reasons: • Gone are cost-control measures such as enactment of a “public option” to compete with private insurers and   letting people aged 55-64 buy in to Medicare. • Provides a tax on everyone’s ...
  6 days ago

• Finally Left Leverage on Healthcare

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 425
  Niagara Fal ls, Ontario           Maybe progressives and liberals are finally willing to exercise some leverage rather than watching painfully as conservatives and moderates strip every bill that arises down to the bone with health care reform being the latest front page casualty?  There are signs of a ...
  1 week ago

• AFL-CIO statement on real healthcare reform

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 134
  The AFL-CIO has issued a statement on healthcare reform: Contact: Amaya Tune/Eddie Vale 202-637-5279 Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Health Care Bill December 17, 2009 The labor movement has been fighting for health care for nearly 100 years and we are not about to stop fighting now, when it ...
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• Trumka: Senate Health Care Bill Must Change

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 128
  Image via Wikipedia The health care bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is inadequate and too tilted toward the insurance industry, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today. In recent days, as the Senate has debated health care reform, small numbers of senators have held health care hostage by ...
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• Why Liberals Won’t Kill Health Care Reform

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 116
  For those opposed to the current versions of health care reform moving through Congress it’s might be enjoyable to see the Democrat versus Democrat circus currently underway in Washington. Both parties are susceptible to the joys of circular firing squads, but the Democrats are embracing the concept with exceptional ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Learning and Doing in Copenhagen

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Barbara Byrd, secretary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO and co-chair of the Oregon Apollo Alliance , is taking part in climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members are part of a 400-member global union movement delegation led by the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ). ...
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• Rallies Across America Call For Getting Health Reform Done Right - Affordable, Accountable, Quality Health Care Insurance For All

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 444
  (presser) HEALTH REFORM SUPPORTERS RALLY NATIONWIDE TO SAY FINISH THE JOB AND FINISH IT RIGHT Nearly 50 events in 31 states remind Congress if the insurance companies win, we lose Washington, DC - Health care reform supporters from SEIU , AFSCME , Change that Works , ...
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• AFL-CIO: "Substantial Changes Must be Made"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 794
  While the SEIU is taking the optimistic approach to the Senate bill (we hate it but pass it so you can make it better in conference), the AFL-CIO is hitting the Senate bill, hard and leaving plenty of room for the federation to oppose the bill. The AFL-CIO, going further than the SEIU, is out with a new ...
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• Trumka Takes on the ‘Neoliberalism’ that Broke U.S. Economy

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 741
  Today, help me welcome Seth Michaels, a blogger at AFL-CIO Now . Seth live-tweeted our webcast of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka this week, when Trumka answered the questions on the nation’s jobs crisis that got the most votes by working families. In Tuesday’s live Web chat , AFL-CIO President Richard ...
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