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Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: Richard Ahearn: An NLRB Director and a Tale of Two Struggles
When EGT, an international corporate behemoth, threatened to break their union in Longview, Washington, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and their friends from the community organized a massive demonstration, sat down on the tracks and stopped a train. They did it more than once. The nation’s workers took heart at this [...]
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Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: Occupy Louisville and Unions Rally Together
On Thursday, October 13, 2011, union supporters and Occupy Louisville protesters gathered in Jefferson Square Park for a joint rally. This park at 6th and Jefferson is the location for the Louisville version of Occupy Wall Street where hundreds have gathered daily. The unions were there to support Occupy Louisville and also to push for an ordinance [...]
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Kay Tillow commented on the diary post What’s the real story behind the postal crisis? by Kay Tillow.
You can take action to help save the postal services here:
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Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: What’s the Real Story Behind the Postal Crisis?
On September 27, 2011, in over 300 cities, postal workers will rally their communities to save the US postal services. Letter carrier Michael Plaskon has written a short essay to help us to understand the effort to destroy this public service so that it can be privatized for profit. What’s the real story behind the postal crisis? [...] -
Kay Tillow commented on the diary post How Libby, Montana, Got Medicare for All by Kay Tillow.
I agree with you. Knowing about Libby could spark a movement demanding improved Medicare for all, HR 676.
There are Superfund sites in every state where people suffer the health and environmental aftermath left as corporations profited from their labor then left them jobless, unhealthy, and without care.
We must let the people know. http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/index.htm
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Kay Tillow commented on the diary post How Libby, Montana, Got Medicare for All by Kay Tillow.
Thanks, Liz.
People can join in the celebration of Medicare’s 46th Birthday in July to insist that we protect it, improve it, and expand it to all by passing HR 676.
Materials to help you plan an event are available here: http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/single-payer-rally/
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Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: How Libby, Montana, Got Medicare for All
In 2009 when the Washington beltway was tied up with the health care reform tussle, Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus , chairman of the all powerful Senate Finance Committee, said everything was on the table–except for single payer. When doctors, nurses and others rose in his hearing to insist that single payer be included in the debate, Baucus [...] -
Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: Solution to a Busted VEBA: Single Payer Health Care, HR 676
Detroit Diesel has been around since April 1937, a few months after the Flint sit down strike that won union recognition. This year, 1,100 retired auto workers at Detroit Diesel suffered a giant cut in company provision of health benefits because their Voluntary Employees Benefits Association, VEBA, went belly up. Workers who retired between 1993 [...]
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Kay Tillow commented on the diary post On Wisconsin! News and What to do in Solidarity. by Kay Tillow.
The South Central Federation of Labor in Madison is the organization that voted to endorse a general strike. You can follow what they have to say on their website: http://www.scfl.org/
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Kay Tillow commented on the diary post On Wisconsin! News and What to do in Solidarity. by Kay Tillow.
Kathleen McElroy has provided further details on how to help. Kay THE BATTLE FOR UNIONS IN WISCONSIN HOW YOU CAN HELP by Kathleen McElroy, UAW Local 1981 National Writers Union, Madison, Wisconsin Folks from outside Wisconsin are contacting me and asking how to help with the battle to save collective bargaining for public employees in [...]
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Kay Tillow wrote a new diary post: On Wisconsin! News and What to do in Solidarity.
In a message to the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care—HR 676, Jim Cavanaugh, President of the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL), said: ”For at least three decades now the working class has been under severe attack. In Madison, and throughout Wisconsin, we have declared that enough is enough and now is [...]
