Big labor sells out to health care defeatism
Body: Unions Back Plan that Could Kill Off Real Health Care ReformThe AFL-CIO’s and SEIU’s endorsements of single payer appear to be window dressing. They are putting all their energies into...
View ArticleEzra on single payer: Let's you and Senator Baucus fight
Body: Health Care Reform Panel Discussion at Netroots Nation
View ArticleLabor leadersheep and the politics of health care
Body: Jeffrey MuckensturmH.R. 676 has significant labor support. To date, over 445 labor organizations, including 36 state AFL-CIO chapters, 110 Central Labor Councils, the United Steel Workers, the...
View ArticleVote for single payer in AFL-CIO/HCAN't health care survey!
Body: The AFL-CIO and HCAN't have put out a survey. Please take this at at number 16 say that you would abolish private health insurance and replace it with a HR 676 Medicare for All.
View ArticleAFL-CIO Members: Pro-Public option or Pro-Single Payer?
Body: BarbMD declares"This is what is sounds like when someone representing the Democratic wing of the Party speaks" in reference to AFL-CIO president Trumka laying down markers for what health reform...
View ArticleAFL-CIO endorses single payer. Unanimously
Body: National Nurses Movement The campaign for the most comprehensive healthcare reform of all, single payer, won a huge boost Tuesday as the AFL-CIO voted unanimously at its national convention in...
View ArticleWorkers talk back to Trumka
Body: Check out this thread at the AFL CIO blog. Trumka is getting some serious push back.
View ArticleTrumka: A Labor movement for the people, not for politician or party
Body: In a major speech today, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka outlined a vision of what a true labor movement should be. Read the speech here: We have listened hard, and what workers want is an...
View ArticleObama's SOTU: Military Mayhem & 3d-Wrld US Job/Wage Bullshit
Body: Barry Grey of wsws has the grimmest but most reality-based analysis of Obama’s Tuesday night State of the Union message.Grey:The speech was actually one of the most reactionary State of the Union...
View ArticleUnion and third party leaders not fighting, not present
Body: Local activity that should be of keen interest to leaders in the Green Party and AFL-CIO is instead being ignored by them.Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
View ArticleTrumka sells out
Body: AFL-CIO: 2016 endorsement doesn't hinge on fast trackNo wonder no one takes the AFL-CIO seriously anymore.
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