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...“Healthcare workers are concerned that, without PPE and training for the retail and restaurant workers who are going back, we’re rushing into another spike” in cases, she said....
...several decades, is back because large numbers of people are fed up with soaring inequality, retirement insecurity (fewer than half of employees have access to a company pension scheme), rising costs for healthcare...
...“We aren’t winning dues, we are winning workers,” says David Rolf, president of SEIU Local 775, representing 43,000 long-term healthcare workers in Washington and Montana....
...“2013 is our window of opportunity,” said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, one of the US’s biggest unions, representing healthcare and public service employees....
...Economists generally agree that immigration is a net positive to the US, a factor that cannot be ignored as baby boomers retire and pressure builds on government healthcare and pension systems....
...“We have watched as many of our largest corporations post huge profits while workers lose their pensions, healthcare and jobs,” Matthew Nerzig, 32BJ SEIU spokesman, told the Financial Times....
...The address delivered a withering criticism of a budget proposal introduced by Republicans last week that would fundamentally alter Medicare, the popular government healthcare programme for the elderly that...
...Mr Boccieri is one of three Democrats in the House who have attracted about 90 per cent of contributions by unions SEIU and AFSCME....
...It further divided its opponents by joining an alliance with the SEIU union on healthcare reform....
...The first year of the Obama administration has not always been plain sailing for the labour movement, including Mr Stern’s SEIU....
...The SEIU also claims BofA does not provide affordable healthcare for its lowest paid employees, who are forced to seek healthcare at public expense at hospital emergency rooms....
...and SEIU unions....
...It is also part of an alliance with the SEIU and telecom workers unions that has been seeking to develop a political consensus on the direction of healthcare reform....
...But the SEIU, which has attracted criticism from other unions for working with Wal-Mart on healthcare reform, said it had failed to find one uninsured American who had received healthcare as an employee...
...Mr Obama candidly admitted that he had not yet drawn up a healthcare plan. “John Edwards came out with the most comprehensive plan for healthcare,” said Mr Stern....
...But it sent demonstrators to picket a meeting of the Wal-Mart group, which includes fellow union leaders from the SEIU and the CWA....
...Andrew Grossman, who heads SEIU’s Wal-Mart Watch campaign, described the decision as a disappointment, but said the campaign surrounding the Maryland law had been succesful in raising public awareness of...
...Andrew Grossman, who heads SEIU’s Wal-Mart Watch campaign, described the decision as a disappointment but said the group was hoping that an appeal would be lodged to the Supreme Court....
...Wal-Mart’s headquarters also now has a “war-room” crisis response operation run by experienced political campaigners, countering campaigns funded by the SEIU and UFCW trades unions....
...The UFCW and SEIU food and service workers unions launched new campaigns against the retailer, most recently funding radio commercials that suggested Jesus would have preferred not to shop at Wal-Mart....
...Both the UFCW grocery workers’ union – whose campaigns to unionise the retailer’s workers failed – and the SEIU service workers’ union have focused on mobilising this broad opposition....
...“We are not trying to divide the labour movement, we are trying to rebuild it,” said Andy Stern, leader of the SEIU union....
...Andy Stern, leader of the service sector union SEIU said: “We are not trying to divide the labour movement we are trying to rebuild it....
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