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• Health Care Reform Goes Home for the Holiday

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  In Arkansas and other key states, union members are rallying to demand that their senators support real health care reform.   Senators are heading home for Thanksgiving this week, but when they return, they’ll begin debate on one of the most important priorities of our lifetime: health care reform. ...
  4 days ago

• Egyptian Workers Build Independent Union Movement

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      Liz McElroy of the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO, Dan Heck of Working America and Scott Reynolds of the AFL-CIO staff meet with a group of worker activists from the Egyptian Center for Trade Union and Worker Services in Cairo.         Dan Heck, Midwest regional director for ...
  4 days ago

• Senate Health Care Debate Coming Up, and Other Health Care News

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
         With Saturday’s successful Senate procedural vote behind us, the stage is set for a debate on health care reform after Thanksgiving. Getting this far—putting a comprehensive health care reform bill on the Senate floor—has never happened before. It’s a big victory, but the Senate bill is ...
  5 days ago

• Union Presence Noted in Photos at Highway K Rally

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 144
  A whopping six protesters in favor of government-run health care showed up Saturday to counter anti-socialism protesters during their weekly rally at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo.Who was in the small group that was outnumbered 22 to 1 by the folks on the other side of the road?  Who was [...]
  5 days ago

• State, Local Budgets Tanking, Need Help Fast

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  With official unemployment at 10.2 percent, creating new jobs is a critical part of any economic recovery. But huge state and local budget shortfalls caused by the nation’s economic crisis will make joblessness worse unless state governments receive massive amounts of aid, according to a new report.  The report ...
  1 week ago

• Working America, Union Members Deliver for Health Care Reform

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      Working America members in Louisiana and in several other states wrote thousands of letters to their senators urging them to pass health care reform now.         In Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Delaware, Arkansas and Indiana this week, Working America members and union volunteers ...
  1 week ago

• Join Tweet-a-Thon and Expose the Chamber of Commerce Friday

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      “U.S. Chamber of Greed” is a nice short tweet to start the day with a NotMyChamber Tweet-a-Thon.         Get set to join a tweet-a-thon Friday, at 10 a.m. EST, to help launch the #notmychamber campaign spearheaded by the worker advocacy group, American Rights at Work . If you ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Health Care Bill: Moving in the Right Direction

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      Around the country, union volunteers are taking grassroots action to get their senators to support real health care reform.         Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) officially released the Senate’s version of health care reform legislation, a major step toward the ...
  1 week ago

• New Polls Show Public Demands a Public Option, and More Health Care News

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      Union members have delivered thousands of letters to senators in support of health care reform.         We’re watching closely to see if the U.S. Senate begins its debate on health care this week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will unveil the Senate bill tonight and we ...
  1 week ago

• ObamaCare: Show Me the SEIU Money!

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Throughout the debate over health care reform, there has been a great deal of discussion over the role of special interests in influencing the votes of lawmakers. Liberal democrats, progressive think tanks and mainstream media have repeatedly accused anyone who opposes government run health care of standing with ...
  1 week ago

• Trumka: Jobs Crisis—Fix It Now

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
        Today at the Economic Policy Institute ( EPI ), AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other leaders joined together to call for urgent action to create jobs and rebuild the economy. In a live webcast panel discussion, the consensus was clear: Without quick action, an entire generation could be mired ...
  1 week ago

• Labor Boss Acknowledges Own ‘Lambourghini Health Plan’ at Single-Payer Strategy Conference

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 144
  For those of you who need more evidence to explain how the nation’s Big Three Automakers ended up in such financial strife, take a look at the video I shot as the only journalist attending the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.  It shows union heavyweight Jerry ...
  1 week ago

• How Andy Stern Got Around Obama’s “No Lobbyist” Policy; He Just Didn’t Register

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  President Obama has always made a pretty big deal about not working with “lobbyists”. Registered lobbyists can’t get stimulus money, can’t be White House advisors and are not allowed access to meetings and summits. So how does one get around that? It’s simple; you just don’t register as a lobbyist. ...
  1 week ago

• The Benefits of Joining a Trade Union

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 167
  Whats in it for me?, people would inquire. There are a few people who think fighting for a cause to be unnecessary. They are usually just content to sit around and allow other people to fight for the causes that are crucial for the betterment of the lives of people. This kind of behavior is downright irresponsible. ...
  1 week ago

• Labor Boss Says He Hopes to ‘Take the Corporate Community and Its Greed Out of the Picture’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 144
  Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer.  Speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. ...
  1 week ago

• "We are all leaders"

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 588
  By any standard measure the suicide of Wesley Everest should be considered unusual. Everest had only recently returned from the front lines of WWI France, so a suicide isnt all that shocking. However, the circumstances of his death on Veterans Day 1919, should have raised questions with the coroner. That is, if ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘AMERICA’S LEAST WANTED’ Coming to Television

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 144
  Twenty-two years ago, John Walsh launched “AMERICA’S MOST WANTED,” a ground-breaking television program that has helped take down more than 1,050 dangerous fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children.  As explained here, it was not the career he envisioned for himself; rather, it’s genesis lies in ...
  2 weeks ago

• For SEIU, for the Motherland, for Communism

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 563
  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) … ANOTHER SEIU BEATING: A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union. ATTACKED BY SEIU ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘16 Deaths Per Day’ Highlights Weak Penalties for Worker Fatalities

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  Every day, 16 workers go to work and don’t come home. They are killed on the job. But far too often, employers that have created or ignored dangerous workplace conditions are not held accountable. Civil penalties are weak and criminal prosecutions rare. Now, “ 16 Deaths Per Day ,” a new video from Brave New ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Document Reveals: SEIU Will Conquer Using Any Means Necessary

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  When a small sampling of the White House guest list was revealed several days, Obama campaign bankroller SEIU was at the top of the list.  Having spent over $60 million to elect Obama, why should we expect anything different? Earlier this year, SEIU president Andy Stern admitted he holds weekly meetings at the ...
  2 weeks ago

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