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• AFL-CIO statement on real healthcare reform

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 428
  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: 129
  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 ...
  11 hours ago

• Learning and Doing in Copenhagen

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 630
  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 ). ...
  19 hours ago

• Rallies Across America Call For Getting Health Reform Done Right - Affordable, Accountable, Quality Health Care Insurance For All

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  (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 , ...
  22 hours ago

• AFL-CIO: "Substantial Changes Must be Made"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Trumka Takes on the ‘Neoliberalism’ that Broke U.S. Economy

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 715
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• AFL-CIO opposes current Senate bill

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 428
  The conflict over the Senate healthcare cave-in intensified today as the AFL_CIO said it would not support the current version of the bill and the SEIU leader Andy Stern criticized President Obama by name. And Senator Byron Dorgan accused the White House of using the FDA to kill his provision allowing drug ...
  1 day ago

• Health care reform: Labor leaders barking, but will they ever bite?

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 117
  Labor leaders have been back and forth on different portions of the health care bill, but in the last day, SEIU President Andy Stern and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka have both come out with a “We’re just so disappointed” statement against the current version of the Senate health care bill. Don’t confuse ...
  1 day ago

• AFL-CIO President Turns Up The Heat On The Senate; Champions A Public Health Insurance Option

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  Greg Sargent writes ~ AFL-CIO Statement Blasting Senate Bill 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 really matters. But for ...
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• Trumka Takes on the ‘Neoliberalism’ that Broke U.S. Economy

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 630
         In Tuesday’s live Web chat , AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talked about what we need to do to fix our economy in both the short term and the long term—and touched on a vital, too-infrequently discussed issue: the need to end the stranglehold neoliberal economic thinking has on our ...
  1 day ago

• AFL-CIO, Bill Clinton Issue Statements on Senate Health Care Bill

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority: 147
  First, heres an excerpt from the AFL-CIOs statement , blasting the Senate bill and coming verrrry close to calling for it to be killed. ... for this health care bill to be worthy of the support of working men and women, substantial changes must be made. The AFL-CIO intends to fight on behalf of all working families ...
  1 day ago

• Trumka: The Senate Bill Is Inadequate

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 787
  The president of AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, said in a press release today that the Senate bill is "inadequate" and promised to fight for something closer to the House bill, which he said is "the model for genuine health care reform." Here is the full text of the release: The labor movement has been fighting for ...
  1 day ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Peggy Shorey Named Pride At Work’s Executive Director

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 630
      Peggy Shorey         Pride At Work ( P@W ), the AFL-CIO’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) constituency group , has selected longtime activist Peggy Shorey as its new executive director. Shorey has been an organizer and community leader in Connecticut for the past 17 ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Sen. Sanders (I-VT) is Not a Yes, the SEIU & the AFL-CIO may be a NO on ObamaCare

  
  RedState — Authority: 767
  The Hill is reporting that Senator Sanders is not a yes on ObamaCare. This is another way of saying Senator Reid now has another Senator he can not count on : “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), one of the Senate’s leading proponents of creating a government-run public option health insurance program, has not yet ...
  2 days ago

• SEIU, AFL-CIO backing off of LieberCare?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 715
  The LieberCare health care bill is an absolutely catastrophe for labor unions, and it looks like the unions are finally waking up to that fact. Both the AFL-CIO labor federation and SEIU, one of the country’s largest unions are holding emergency meetings today to decide what to do about the Senate bill. While the ...
  2 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  2 days ago

• Will labor oppose healthcare cave-in?

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 428
  Sam Stein at Huffington Post brings word that the AFL-CIO and SEIU are both in emergency meetings to decide whether to oppose the Senate healthcare cave-in or just not to fight for it. As a top labor official emailed Stein: “What is really frustrating folks here is that it’s impossible to make and ...
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• Indiana State AFL-CIO Names First Woman President

  
  Building Indiana Blog — Authority: 467
  The Indiana State AFL-CIO announced that Nancy Guyott has been elected its new president and Joe Breedlove has been re-elected as its secretary-treasurer. Guyott makes history by becoming the first women and, at age 41, the youngest person in nearly fifty years to lead the labor organization. She was unanimously ...
  2 days ago

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