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The mission of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation. Click here to read more. In an historic vote more than 60 years in the making, the House of Representatives late last night voted to approve (220-211) what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a ”momentous step toward comprehensive health care.” The bill survived a $100 million lie-and-distortion campaign by Big Insurance to kill it-the same kind of tactics these groups have aimed at health care proposals for six decades. Trumka says the bill is not “a baby step or half measure,” but a solid step forward to set our country on a path to health care that actually works for working families. Read More>> Recieve updates via e-mail. Click here to sign up for the e-Activist Network of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. For the latest local labor news, click here to visit the BLOG of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Community Services Conference will be held March 25, 26, and 27, 2010 at the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club. HURRY and get your registrations in and hotel reservations made! There is potential for significant job creation tied to the evolving green economy. Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force recommendations provide a platform for the development of new jobs. 
Starting today, the union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. From March 15-26, working people will hold rallies and demonstrations at branches of the Big Six Wall Street banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wachovia-Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley—across the country. They will tell the banks: “I Am Not Your ATM” and “Make Wall Street Pay for Creating New Jobs.” Read More>> 
Current and future retirees, alarmed by the extremist Republican members of Congress named to the newly created bipartisan commission to lower the federal budget deficit, have a name for this group: “Sock Our Seniors Six.” These lawmakers repeatedly have voted to weaken Social Security and sell off Medicare to the big drug and insurance companies. The filibuster is no longer about allowing an up-or-down vote. The filibuster IS the up-or-down vote. If Feingold and other progressives cling to the idea that filibusters are fine if they’re not abused, then here’s the result: Conservative legislation and appointees require 51 votes; progressive legislation and appointees require 60. It’s that simple. In all of the debates about health care reform, one of the stubborn realities is that neither the Obama plan, nor any of the Republican alternatives, will seriously alter the trajectory of relentless cost-escalation in health care. The President’s 11-Page Proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care. Learn here what the President’s Proposal will mean for you. Being an active trade unionist in Iran is a Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do executive salaries and bonuses have to be, how many houses or jets or artworks can be crammed into a life? (see full article) 
This can be done by combining two broad types of initiatives: measures to buttress the economy's floor and thereby prevent another 2008-type collapse, and measures to inject job-generating investments into the economy. If such initiatives are successful, the official unemployment rate will stand at around 4 percent when Obama runs for re-election in November 2012. The Federal Government Would Collect $2 Trillion Less Over a Decade If Democrats can start sounding like Democrats again, they'll have a better shot at holding onto their majority in Congress next November. AFL-CIO Now Blog -- Recent News Stories
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