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Amy Dean, Truthout: 'While many would say there is little for working people to celebrate as we approach this Labor Day, I see new hope in the rising number of working people standing up to fight back for themselves and all working-class families. Despite an unprecedented wave of attacks on our country s workers, or maybe because of them, working people across the country have begun to come together and fight back to reclaim their rights and voice in our economic and political debates. If given the chance to truly flourish, this rising fight for true independent political power for working people, whether you are in a union or not, has the potential to repaint the landscape of our economy for the good.'

http://www.truth-out.org/taking-back-labor-day/1314996120



Busting the Union Busters

Dick Meister, Truthout: 'Probably nothing could be more damaging to the labor movement in general than the attempts by anti-union forces to weaken unions at all levels of government by trying to limit - if not withdraw - their collective bargaining rights and right to strike, in addition to unilaterally cutting the pay and pensions, health care, and other benefits their unions have won in bargaining.'

http://www.truth-out.org/busting-union-busters/1314710822



Postal Workers: The Last Union

Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: 'The recent attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS) are more than signs of desperate times - a natural sunset moment for a service rendered archaic by FedEx and UPS. Rather, the Postal Service has been under constant, vicious assault for years from the right, who views this as an epic battle with the goal of finally taking down the strongest union in the country, the second-largest employer in the United States (second only to Walmart) and a means to roll the country ever closer toward the abyss of privatization.'

http://www.truth-out.org/last-union/1315492298



The Great Health Care Takeaway

Shamus Cooke, Truthout: 'Most workers now understand that there is a difference between apparently having health care and actually having health care: if you are technically 'insured,' but cannot afford doctor visits due to high deductibles and co-pays, you really aren't insured. This fact, applied to Medicare, has startling consequences. The New England Journal of Medicine found, 'For every 100 people enrolled in plans that raised co-pays, there were 20 fewer doctor visits, 2 additional hospital admissions and 13 more days spent in the hospital...'

http://www.truth-out.org/great-health-care-takeaway/1314713826

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Political class rigs a game it finds threatening

Orange County Register
by George Will

09/23/11

The pleasant sound you hear - the clatter of bad laws crumbling - is the edifice of campaign finance restrictions disintegrating. Washington state provides a fresh example of the exhaustion of the 'campaign finance reform' project, which tries to empower government to restrict speech about the composition and conduct of government. The state law at issue is awful, but usefully awful: It perfectly illustrates how the political class crafts campaign regulations for the purpose of protecting the job security of members of that class: elected incumbents...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/recall-318625-state-law.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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