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 …
Category: Health Care
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 …
Mary’s Vote for Health Care Reform
Washington On the eve of the dramatic and historic health care vote, I got a letter from a friend, Mary Rowles, who is also a labor official in British Columbia. She had been sick all week with pneumonia and equally ill reading with consternation the mis-characterizations of what reform might mean south of the Canadian …