Swapping Stories: Health Care
HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
NEW YORK (PAI)—“There once was a union maid, who never was afraid,” begins the old song about activist union women. Well, members of Unite Here – real union maids – were not afraid when they spoke up the week of June 6-11 against sexual exploitation of maids and other hotel workers by hotel guests.
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—Continuing its campaign to strip its blood bank workers of their rights and their health care, the American Red Cross – one of the nation’s largest charities – has forced some 250 nurses and blood donor collectors in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey to strike, over blood bank safety issues.
UNIONS SAVE LIVES
UNIONS SAVE LIVES
By Dick Meister
A miner's life is like a sailor's
'Board a ship to cross the waves
Every day his life's in danger
Still he ventures being brave
---Traditional labor song
A new study shows that unionization is a sure way to dramatically lessen the
many deaths and serious injuries that have been all too common in the
nation's coal mines.
That's the unequivocal conclusion of the independent study of coal mining
between 1993 and 2008 conducted by Stanford law professor Allson Morantz and
VERMONT TAKES STEP TOWARDS SINGLE- PAYER HEALTH CARE; NURSES LOBBY FOR NATIONAL LAW
VERMONT TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARDS STATE SINGLE-
PAYER HEALTH CARE; NURSES LOBBY FOR NATIONAL LAW
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
BURLINGTON, Vt. (PAI)—The state of Vermont has taken the first step towards creating a statewide single-payer government-run health care system. And one of the nation’s top nurses unions will lobby in early June for a national single-payer law.
AFL-CIO: GOP CUTS PUT JOB SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT RISK
AFL-CIO: GOP CUTS PUT JOB
SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT RISK
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Potential Republican cuts to future job safety and health spending put improvements in occupational safety and health at risk, a new AFL-CIO report says.
UPPER BIG BRANCH MINER DESCRIBES SCENE AT BLAST
UPPER BIG BRANCH MINER
DESCRIBES SCENE AT BLAST
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
UPPER BIG BRANCH MINE, W. Va. (PAI)—On that dismal day in West Virginia history, when the Upper Big Branch mine exploded last April, a son of a miner named Eddie went from person to person asking: “Is there any word?”
The heartbreaking answer, about his father and 28 of his colleagues, was “no.”
LABOR DEPT. TO PROPOSE RULES TO BRING MORE HOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS UNDER WAGE LAWS
LABOR DEPT. TO PROPOSE RULES TO BRING MORE
HOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS UNDER WAGE LAWS
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Obama administration’s Labor Department will propose new rules in October to bring more home health care workers under protection of federal minimum wage and overtime laws.
But even while the department’s Wage and Hour Division is working on the proposal, the very idea of paying the workers a decent wage is already catching flak from home health care companies.
THE HEALTH INSURANCE LAW: DO YOU REALLY WANT ITS REPEAL?
THE HEALTH INSURANCE LAW: DO YOU REALLY WANT ITS REPEAL?
Do you really want Congress to repeal the new health insurance law, as flawed as it is?
That’s the question posed by a House vote on Jan. 12, when the new GOP majority there passed a 2-page bill “repealing” the landmark legislation.
Great job keeping us so profitable. Now we have to let you go.
Great job keeping us so profitable. Now we have to let you go.
By Richard Negri
Let's say you spent years helping to build up an enormously profitable company. Then you find out you're being sacked two weeks before Christmas because the company wants to increase their profit margins even more. How would it make you feel? Don't answer, I think I know...
JOBS, SHOW OF POWER, POLITICS KEY THEMES FOR LEADERS, WORKERS AT ‘ONE NATION’ DEMO
JOBS, SHOW OF POWER, POLITICS KEY THEMES
FOR LEADERS, WORKERS AT ‘ONE NATION’ DEMO
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Campaigning for good jobs with good benefits, a
show of power against the Radical Right and politics through Election Day and
beyond were key themes for both union leaders speaking at the mass “One Nation”
demonstration in Washington on Oct. 2, and for rank-and-file unionists
questioned there.
