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House Approves Historic Health Care Reform
Monday, 22 March 2010 11:56 | 
Posted By Mike Hall On March 21, 2010 @ 11:39 pm
In a historic vote more than 60 years in the making, the U.S. House of Representatives late Sunday night voted to approve (220-211) what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a ”momentous step toward comprehensive health care.”
The bill survived a $100 million lie-and-distortion campaign by Big Insurance [1] to kill it—the same kind of tactics these groups have aimed at health care proposals for six decades. Trumka says the bill is not “a baby step or half measure,” but a solid step forward to set our country on a path to health care that actually works for working families.
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XEROX MASS-FIRES UNION SUPPORTERS Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:30 |
One by one, 14 union supporters at the E-Z Pass administrative center in New York got a call from their boss on Monday asking them to "come into my office." Then, one by one, all union supporters were told that their services were no longer needed. One union activist, Frank Buonvicino, was told that "we know you were one of the union leaders," as he was let go. On the Friday before they were fired, all these workers had sent a message by standing up for 60 seconds while continuing to work.
The E-Z Pass administrative center is operated by Xerox. Xerox is refusing to bargain a contract with these newly-organized CWA members, even though they won an election in May of 2009. "I gave 150% to this company for five years," said Frank Buonvicino. "I am asking my union brothers and sisters to help us get our jobs back." Help Frank and the other E-Z Pass workers get their jobs back. Take action right now: Tell Xerox CEO Ursula Burns that firing union supporters and refusing to bargain is outrageous. Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:43 ) How the Corporations Broke America Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:20 |
By STEPHEN FLEISCHMAN They started with the labor unions. The labor movement, in this country, was brought to its knees by the corporate oligarchy, feeling its oats, in the 1980s. Labor had a great tradition of fight in this country, going back to the Knights of Labor, organized in 1869, right up to the organization of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, (CIO) a federation of unions that organized workers industrially from 1935 to 1955 when it merged with the AFL. Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:48 ) |
Home healthcare agency follows Democrats’ lead in busting labor Friday, 19 February 2010 13:25 |
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When the state Democratic leadership called the cops on organized labor last year in a ham-fisted effort to get out of voting on the Workers Privacy Act, they sent a couple of strong messages to employers statewide. Last Updated ( Friday, 19 February 2010 13:58 ) Judge to Pratt & Whitney: Keep Work in U.S. Tuesday, 09 February 2010 14:28 |
by James Parks, Feb 9, 2010 A federal court issued an injunction Feb. 4 against Pratt & Whitney, preventing the company from moving work and equipment out of their Cheshire and East Hartford, Conn., plants and keeping 1,000 hourly and salaried workers on the job. Machinists (IAM) District 26 had filed suit, saying the decision to move the work violated their contract. Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 February 2010 16:14 ) |
