It’s not scary or complicated at all
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what a public option for healthcare coverage really means for working people.
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Call the Congress toll-free using this number: 1-877-3-AFL-CIO (1-877-323-5246). Tell them we want health care reform including a strong public option. Make [...]
From our health care reform allies at Moveon.org
Heather Graham stars as the Public Option in this funny ad, showing how she’ll force the lazy, bloated private insurance companies to get back in the game and compete. After all, competition is as American as apple pie. Actor Peter Coyote narrates.
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WATCH VIDEO: ‘Under the Bus’
A coalition of national civil rights groups, including the NAACP Voter Action Fund and the National Council of La Raza, have joined to make sure health insurance reform legislation coming together in the Congress does not “throw 46 million of us under the bus.”
Health Equity for All on [...]
Officer elections and the President in the House of Labor
Immediately following our state convention, the officers and other delegates from unions and Central Labor Councils across North Carolina headed to Pittsburgh, PA for the national convention of the AFL-CIO.
The national convention this year marked the end of John Sweeney’s tenure at the helm of the [...]
Patricia Evans Carpenter, a member of ACORN, is one of millions of people across the United States who have been let down by a broken health care system. Patricia suffers from life-threatening respiratory illnesses, including asthma, emphysema and bronchitis. Every day is a struggle, not only to cope with medical problems, but also to pay [...]
Thanks to ConCarbon for the tip on this great, very uplifting video to close out our email update. The theme music, written for a multi-media show by the same name, is about women’s labor history. Hopefully it will inspire you to keep struggling for progress, sought by so many for so long.
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What difference can a union make where you work?
workSMART, a project of the Trade Union Congress, the organized labor movement in the United Kingdom, like the AFL-CIO in the United States, has put together a fantastic video that speaks to anyone who goes to a job every day where they feel like just another [...]
HAARM.org informs health care debate with several great videos
The Service Employees International Unions (SEIU) has launched a new web site where you can meet Health Americans Against Reforming Medicine (HAARM). The site is a parody of the very real opponents of health care reform.
At HAARM.org you can watch several hilarious videos, including these gems:
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This motion picture approved for all audiences
They are 47 artists, including Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners and nominees. They are sitcom stars, character actors, musicians, comedians, and Broadway performers. They are all union members, working with union writers and an all union crew, and they all support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Artists [...]
“25 Years to Get a Union”
There is something wrong with the world when workers have to spend 25 years fighting for a voice on the job. But that is exactly what the employees at Pilkington Glass in Laurinburg had to do.
Howard Hall has melted glass at Pilkington for 28 years, and was a major player [...]