The AFL-CIO yesterday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. The AFL-CIO General Board, which voted to endorse Obama, includes presidents of all 56 unions in the AFL-CIO, as well as Executive Council members and representatives of state and local federations, trade departments and constituency groups. The General Board votes by per capita membership. In […]
House Passes Unemployment Aid For Third Time
For the third time in little more than a month, the House today voted (416-12) to extend unemployment insurancebenefits (UI) to unemployed workers who run out of benefits without finding new work. This time, the jobless aid appears to be headed for Senate approval and—wonder of wonders—a presidential signature. Bush threatened to veto previous UI […]
Gov’t eyes huge Medicaid cuts; SSA monitors SSIs
The federal government’s plan to cut huge funding support to state governments across the country is expected to take a serious toll on those millions of residents who either lack insurance coverage or the uninsured patients who now avail of free medical services from the government. The new proposal, now being deliberated in the U.S. […]
GSIS opts to go to court vs Meralco
It seems Government Service Insurance System general manager and president Winston Garcia is becoming pro-consumers, after he faced off Manila Electric Company’s management for what he believed as behind the sufferings of the people in so far as excessive electric rates are concerned. What Garcia wanted was to change Meralco’s management so that the new […]
Young Workers, Positive About Unions, Face Economic Squeeze
by James Parks Two new reports show today’s young workers are being squeezed by high costs of living and low or stagnant wages and they want the government to do more to solve this nation’s economic mess. The Economic State of Young America by Demos presents a statistical study of the economic condition of young workers, and The Progressive Generation: […]
House Passes, Bush Wants to Veto, Unemployment Measure
by Mike Hall On Friday, May 16th,The House voted (256–166) a measure to help long-term jobless workers who face difficult times finding new work in the sputtering Bush economy with an extra 13 weeks to 26 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The UI extension was added to a supplemental spending bill to fund the war in Iraq. Some […]
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