Union leaders praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for crafting a comprehensive 10-year $849 billion health care revision bill, but blasted his inclusion of a tax on workers’ health insurance to help pay for it.

  The joint campaign will involve the AFL-CIO, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the National Council of La Raza and the Center for Community Change among others, the groups said at a joint “Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis” panel discussion/press conference on Nov. 17.