New Orleans In about a month the biggest union election in 2010 will be counted once all of the mail ballots are in from over 40,000 Kaiser Permanente workers who are being polled. Unfortunately this not another milestone of successful union organizing, but hopefully the final major battle in the intense and long standing, bloody …
Category: Health Care
Breastfeeding, Grandfathering, and the World to Come in New Health Care Act
Portland Talking shop with a couple of unions about the future and prospects for new organizing was interesting, but it was truly educational to listen to three of the labor lawyers (Gregory Hartman, Henry Kaplan, and Thomas Doyle) pulled together by the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers to update us about some of …
Health Care Wars Ongoing
New Orleans Perhaps the number three rule of politics, right after “everything begins with a base” and “money rules,” is that the “devil is in the details.” Now that Congress has voted and the President has signed, we need to get off of the arguments about how few slices of the half-a-loaf we got, and …