health care

  • Oregon Activists Look to Grassroots Approach to Win Universal Health Care
    Peter Shapiro
    May 14 2012 - 1:16pm

    Oregon activists are responding to escalating health care costs by rejuvenating a grassroots campaign to win a system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.

  • Bankruptcy Returns as a Tool to Crack Unions
    Mischa Gaus
    Mar 5 2012 - 9:44am

    With $4 billion cash in hand, why did American Airlines declare bankruptcy? Corporations are turning to bankruptcy courts not necessarily because they can’t pay their bills—but because they can negotiate with a hammer.

  • Unions Rally to Protect Contraceptive Coverage

    While Catholic bishops are organizing to get religious-affiliated institutions exempted from providing contraceptive coverage, some unions and women’s organizations are counter-mobilizing. They want to defeat a proposal that would allow employers or insurance companies to refuse coverage of any health care service based on undefined “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

  • New York Governor, SEIU 1199 Raise Hackles with Medicaid Deal
    Mark Brenner
    Jan 9 2011 - 9:48am

    New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.

  • Nurses Press for Financial Transaction Tax

    Just as the cherry blossoms fell from their trees as summer began in Washington, D.C., the 170,000 registered nurses who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, launched their Main Street Contract campaign.

    Six months later, NNU’s campaign is resonating on an international stage and shifting what’s politically possible here at home.

  • New York Nurse Reformers One Step Closer to Power
    Mark Brenner
    Oct 19 2011 - 5:33pm

    Reformers inside the New York State Nurses Association are one step closer to taking power in the 37,000-member union after a federal judge ordered the outgoing leaders to seat the winners of an August election.

  • California Grocery Workers Win Settlement, Wait for Details
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 22 2011 - 12:38pm

    Southern California grocery workers have wrested a tentative agreement from their three profitable employers. The union said the settlement “protects your health care” but did not release details.

  • SEIU: Nursing Home Boss Cheats Workers, Founds 'Institute for Justice'

    Nursing home workers in the Northeast say the owner of their chain cheated them and used the proceeds to fund an institute of justice at New York University.

  • Sugar Workers Bitter over Lockout

    Locked-out sugar beet workers, their families, and supporters turned out in big numbers August 11 to say they want to work—but not on the terms offered by American Crystal Sugar.

    ACS locked out more than 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers August 1, two days after they rejected deep concessions by 97 percent.

  • Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 18 2011 - 3:07pm

    Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the Northeast.