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Time to get to work, Al!During the campaign, Minnesota’s newest U.S. Senator, Al Franken, said he would be an elected official in the tradition of the man who once held his seat, the late Paul Wellstone. It’s a commitment that America’s wage earners need him to keep. : : MORE
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THE JUST RIGHTS OF WORKERS
Those seeking to guarantee workers the unfettered right to unionize have a
compelling new example of how it can be done: An agreement reached this month by representatives of organized labor and the Catholic health
care system.
News Item · Dick Meister · Jun 29, 2009
MASS RALLY DEMANDS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
Declaring Congress must listen to the voters, and not the health insurance companies, thousands of health care advocates -- led by unionists -- demanded universal, affordable health care in a mass rally on June 25.
News Item · PAI · Jun 26, 2009
BIDEN: PASSING EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT ‘IS ABOUT STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH’
Passing the Employee Free Choice Act, to help level the playing field between workers and business in organizing and bargaining is “about strong economic growth,” Democratic Vice President Joe Biden says.
News Item · PAI · Jun 26, 2009
JACK HENNING'S LIFELONG CRUSADE
California lost a remarkable public figure with the death of John F. Henning
on June 4 at age 93. Labor leader, government official, ambassador. Jack
Henning had been all of those - and more - during a career that spanned many
decades.
News Item · Dick Meister · Jun 24, 2009
UNIONISTS, ALLIES MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR HEALTH CARE
There’s a mass march on Washington for health care, after all, on June 25.
News Item · PAI · Jun 19, 2009
CURBING CORPORATE CROOKS
Democratic President Barack Obama’s plan to put new shackles and safeguards on the nation’s financiers has been out in public only for a few days, and it’s already drawing flak.
News Item · PAI · Jun 19, 2009
SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES MAKE CASE AS LEGISLATIVE WORK BEGINS
Advocates of government-run single-payer health care for all, led by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, finally got their “day in court” on Capitol Hill to make their case, on June 10. But it may be too late.
News Item · PAI · Jun 12, 2009
SWEENEY PRAISES DRAFT SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL FOR INCLUDING GOVT.-RUN HEALTH CARE ALTERNATIVE; CNA’S DEMORO DISSENTS
AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney praised the Senate’s draft health care legislation for its plan to establish a government-run Medicare-like alternative to and competitor against the private health insurance industry, but a leader of one the federation’s top health care unions -- California Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro -- publicly dissented.
News Item · PAI · Jun 12, 2009
Helmets to Hardhats and Senate Dems Discuss Careers for Veterans
Bennett went on to say that we have a duty, as a nation, to ensure that our returning veterans, who have sacrificed so much for us, have ample opportunity to secure careers that offer family-supporting wages and benefits in the civilian world upon completion of their military duty. He quoted President Franklin Roosevelt, who upon signing the GI Bill in 1944, said, “What our servicemen and women want, more than anything else, is the assurance of satisfactory employment upon their return to civil life.”
News Item · Helmets to Hardhats · Jun 8, 2009
OHIO FED BACKS TRUMKA FOR AFL-CIO TOP JOB; UNITY TALKS CONTINUE
Though the race for the AFL-CIO's top job -- if there will be a race -- hasn't officially started, the Ohio AFL-CIO made the first move, backing Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka to succeed retiring President John J. Sweeney.
News Item · PAI · Jun 5, 2009
