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Retirees fight for young workers

January 12, 2010 By Scott Marshall

One thing most of us in South Chicago SOAR (Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees) have in common is children and grandchildren

Union leaders meet with White House on health reform

January 11, 2010

WASHINGTON (PAI)--Democratic President Barack Obama tried Jan. 11 to convince top union leaders to drop labor's opposition to taxing workers' health care benefits.

Political courage to create jobs is lacking, AFL-CIO’s Trumka charges

January 11, 2010 By John Wojcik

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, in a major address today at the National Press Club in Washington, said the jobs crisis "cries out for political courage but that courage is not much in evidence.

Unions battle proposed health benefit tax

January 9, 2010 By John Wojcik

A major union leader, commenting on CBO claims that employers will pass along, in the form of raises, cost savings that result from a tax on workers' health benefits said today that, "They may also believe...

Health care tax could cost Democrats seats

January 8, 2010 By John Wojcik

At a press conference yesterday a liberal House Democrat leading the congressional push against the Senate plan to tax workers' health benefits said the plan would cost Democratic seats.