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AEEF NEWS |
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HEADLINES |
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12,000
Delta Flight Attendants Begin Vote to Join AFA-CWA
DeltaAFA
April 23, 2008
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UAW Continues Fight Against Wage Cuts At American Axle
Labor Notes
April 2008
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Bush DOL
Wants to Change FMLA
The American Prospect
April 8, 2008
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NOVA, Frontline, and Design Squad win 2007 Peabodys
The Peabody Awards
April 2, 2008
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UAW Strike Idles More GM Plants
The New York Times
March 8, 2008
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PBS Cancels Wired Science
Current
March 3, 2008
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Non-profits Fight Debt Costs
The Boston Globe
February 21, 2008
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Public Broadcasters to Fight Budget Cuts
The New York Times
February 6, 2008
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AFL-CIO
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Inflation Rises While Real Wages Fall
The Economic Policy Institute
January 16, 2008
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MEETINGS |
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April
Executive Board meeting
Tuesday, April 29
12pm
Lynch conference room (6W) |
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Summary of Findings |
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Stewards
training workshop
Tuesday, May 13
5pm
10 Guest St. conference
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Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a
total of 26,419 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey
sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed.
Most are college graduates. More than half are union members. |
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2008
Spring Member Meeting-Boston
Wednesday, May 14
12pm
The Stockyard |
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These are the people, it
would seem, most likely to have positive experiences with America’s health
care system. Instead, their responses tell a sobering story about the
breadth of the problems with health care in
America.
They say our system has fundamental problems that must be fixed. And
they’re ready to vote about it. |
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2008
Spring Member Meeting-Burbank
Thursday, June 19
2pm to 6pm
Gordon Biersch |
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The people who took the
survey also submitted 7,489 heart-wrenching stories about the effects of
this broken health care system on them and their families. You’ll see some
of their stories throughout this report. |
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