“It’s time to do what’s right for America’s working families, to put aside the partisanship, to come together as a nation, to pass health insurance reform now — this year,” President Obama told the crowd at the AFL-CIO union coalition Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio today:
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In his weekly internet and radio address today, President Barack Obama called for on Congress to pass a credit card reform bill that would “stop credit card companies from imposing certain late fees,” by Memorial Day.
Coming in on the side of consumers, Obama said that “it is past time for rules that are fair and transparent.”
“Instead [...]
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Last week two health care experts sounded the alarm that health care may be the next national meltdown on the same scale as the banking industry. Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and Kenneth Thorpe, PhD of the executive director of the Emory Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions and former deputy assistant of policy at HHS under Clinton, met [...]
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Oh, the suspense… So many inquiring minds want to know, just who will be Obama’s VP. He’s made his decision but mumm’s the word:
Barack Obama told USA TODAY this afternoon that “yes,” he has made up his mind about whom his running mate will be — but he would not reveal the name or just [...]
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Hillary Clinton will headline the 2nd night of the Democratic Convention, Aug. 26, which is in fact, “the 88th anniversary of the women’s right to vote.”
The campaign and convention committee in a statement called her “a champion for working families and one of the most effective and empathetic voices in the country today.”
Michelle Obama will be [...]
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Kentucky Labor Kicks Off 2007 Campaign
Bernard Pollack, AFL-CIO field coordinator, sends us this report on the campaign to elect a working family-friendly governor in Kentucky.
The excitement across the Kentucky Labor Movement is palpable. Unions in the Louisville area are gearing up for Saturday where several hundred volunteers are expected to walk door to door talking [...]
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Media Advisory for Saturday, Sept. 22nd
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Steve Beshear Joins AFL-CIO KY Union Volunteers at Kick Off Walk
AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. Richard Trumka to take part in the launch of the AFL-CIO KY political program
On Saturday, September 22nd, gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear, national AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. Richard Trumka, and intl. UAW VP Terry Thurman will [...]
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“Workers organizing for justice and for an economy that lifts all”
By Stewart Acuff, National AFL-CIO Organizing Director
Adapted from remarks delivered at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia
September 6, 2007
We from the AFL-CIO and the labor movement have been inspired, energized, and moved by this great gathering of warriors for justice and peace, freedom and [...]
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Earlier today, I reported on the release of the U.S. Census Report today, citing that the nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the Census Bureau’s report that the nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last [...]
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