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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 16:35:43 PM MST
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Check this out: A Billings long-term health care worker and her fellow union members issued a YouTube challenge to conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly to walk a day in their shoes.
The challenge came after O'Reilly continually tried to paint the Service Employee International Union as a "radical" organization.
How radical is SEIU? In Montana we help long-term care workers -- some of our nation's lowest paid and most vulnerable workers -- earn better wages and get health insurance and training so that the elderly, ill and injured homebound citizens they care for -- another extremely vulnerable segment of the population -- get better service.
Sounds... um... scary? Hardly. A better word might be noble.
(Robert Struckman writes for the Montana Change That Works campaign, which is a project of the Service Employee International Union.)
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Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 15:39:24 PM MST
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Amid the verbiage about what health care reform should and could be, don't lose sight of one key point: Sen. Max Baucus has made a commitment to a massive policy shift.
That's important. If Baucus has his way, health insurance will cease to be an ever-more-expensive luxury.
And for that, we should thank him.
So go ahead. Send him an email note. Let him know you vote. Tell him what you do and where you live. Most important, tell him what health care reform means to you.
And ask for updates from his office as the reform takes shape.
Thanks, Baucus. I mean it.
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 14:29:29 PM MST
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Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic online is reporting that John Edwards will get a lot more SEIU endorsements.
The two biggest: California, which has 656,000 members and Washington State, which has 103,000 members.
Other states include: Michigan (70,000 members), Idaho (400 members), Montana (500 members), Minnesota (28,000 members), Ohio (22,000 members), West Virginia (4,000 members) and Oregon (46,000 members).
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 10:00:22 AM MST
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Ah, the irony. The AFL-CIO/Change to Win split was supposed to be good news for corporations and bad news for organized labor. The opposite seems to be the case. Leaders of organized labor in Montana strike repeatedly optimistic notes in conversation about how unions are doing here.
And more great news comes out of Washington States where the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters have been absolutely kicking ass. As the executive secretary-treasurer writes, this isn't just good news for the individual workers involved -- it's also good news for the economy.
The reality when it really boils down to it is that over the long-run, we've got a choice. A cheap, barebones economy of shoddy work with massive inequality or a high-road economy powered by skilled, well-compensated workers who build infrastructure and products that will last over the long-term. The northwest appears to be choosing the highroad approach.
Good.
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Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 10:27:59 AM MST
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The nurses in Nevada have won a battle -- the lock-out by the hospital management is ending and management will return to the bargaining table.
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Tue Dec 05, 2006 at 09:04:33 AM MST
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In Nevada, things are heating up in a labor dispute between nurses and company that runs the hospital where they work (I see no indication this is a non-profit, so I assume we're talking about a for-profit hospital -- great idea).
Workers and management have been locked in talks for months and the members of the union finally voted to strike on Nov. 18, until the Republican Governor-elect and a few other officials called for a cooling off period. SEIU's members obliged and agreed to a new round of mediation.
The company refused and is now preparing to walk out nurses.
What's the big point of contention in the contract?
It's not pay or benefits. It's staffing levels. Nurses are saying that they are being put in charge of too many patients and are unable to adequately do their jobs -- patient health suffers as a result.
Sure, you could claim this is greed for the union -- more nurses = more members. But the individual nurses willing to face a lockout aren't going out there to build a union, they're doing it because they know that their patients need more support.
I'll be trying to follow this and provide updates. Taylor Marsh is providing non-stop coverage, including interviews with locked out nurses.
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