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March 1, 2010
Comcast Workers Choose IBEW Local 827
After a difficult organizing campaign filled with management misrepresentations and attempted union busting, Comcast technicians in Fairfield, N.J., elected to be represented by the IBEW.
The NLRB-administered vote Feb. 25 and 26 signals a sea change in the way the company’s installation repair technicians are standing up for their rights on the job...
February 24, 2010
Share Your Job Crisis Story, Connect with Activists at Our New Good Jobs Now Site
Good Jobs Now, the AFL-CIO’s new interactive website, gives workers, people who have lost their jobs and activists a chance to take action, share their stories, find resources and, most importantly, be part of a grassroots movement to help the nation climb out of its 10-million jobs hole created by the recession.
Just launched this morning, Good Jobs Now’s first featured action is a petition calling on Whirlpool Corp., to reverse its decision to close its Evansville, Ind., plant and send work to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 good jobs.
Senate OKs Jobs Bill: Reid Promises More on the Way, Including UI Extension
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The U.S. Senate this morning passed (70-28) a jobs bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promises “is not the only jobs bill or the last jobs bill we will bring to the floor.”
The next step likely will be a 30-day extension of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and COBRA health care subsidies for unemployed workers. Both jobless aid programs are set to expire Feb. 28, and in March alone, 1.2 million people will lose their UI lifeline and health care unless Congress acts.
February 12, 2010
Wanted: Jobs for 25.5 Million American
There’s a lot more that’s frozen in D.C. this week than the usual fallout from a blizzard. The brains of many Senate Republicans are on ice as well. The House passed a jobs bill in December, but the Senate is dawdling, and worse—threatening to pass bits and pieces, taking apart what should be a comprehensive approach to jobs and turning it into minced cabbage. Or, as Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) put it, Democrats shouldn’t advertise the package as jobs legislation "because it’s just extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we need to do..."
February 11, 2010
Record Profits Don’t Stop Health Insurer’s Record Rate Hike
There’s a theory that trends happen first in California before spreading to the rest of the nation. If that’s true in health insurance, we’re all in deep trouble.
Last week, Anthem Blue Cross—whose parent company WellPoint posted a record $4.7 billion profit in 2009—announced it was gouging even more money from its 800,000 California customers by raising premiums as much as 39 percent...
January 28, 2010
Union Plus Will Match Your Haiti Relief Donation
Make a donation to the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center's Earthquake Relief for Haitian Workers' campaign and Union Plus will match your donation dollar-for-dollar, up to $100,000.
Says Union Plus President Leslie Tolf, "Despite the millions of dollars raised already, the people of Haiti continue to have an ongoing need for our help..."