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Former pharmaceutical rep turns his knowledge of drug prices into tool to help save doctors and health insurers money
Trump Administration’s Proposed Reversal of Contraceptive Services Coverage Is Wrong for Working Women and Families
The Donald Trump administration’s draft proposal to reverse the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers and health plans cover most contraceptive services at no cost is wrong for working women and families. The draft as written allows any employer—whether a church, a non-profit related to a church, or a for-profit corporation—that has any moral or religious objection to choose not to cover these contraceptive services. It also exempts any insurance company with a moral or religious objection from covering contraceptive services.
The AFL-CIO has long been committed to ensuring that women have the right to quality health care, including equal access to contraception, and the ability to exercise that right regardless of where they work. When the U.S. Supreme Court undermined that right in its 2014 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the AFL-CIO objected to the expansion of employers’ ability to restrict working women’s rights to contraceptive services and the unprecedented extension of the Religious Freedom Restoration...
New U.N Report: Working People's Freedom to Stand Together Is Under Attack
Culinary Union Local 226
A new U.N. report highlights how the rich and powerful prevent far too many working people in the United States from asserting their most basic human and workplace freedoms.
Maina Kiai, former U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, led a mission to the United States in 2016 and documented the obstacles that working people confront when they exercise their freedom to join together in union. His findings are damning.
The overarching story that surfaces in the report is that wealthy corporations and corporate lobbyists are actively blocking working people’s freedom to join together in union on the job and that U.S. legal framework “provides few incentives for employers to respect workers’ rights.” According to Kiai, these are some of the intimidation tactics the wealthiest 1% use to chill the exercise of rights are fully legal:
When facing a union organizing drive, 75% of employers hire consultants specializing in “union avoidance.” These consultants openly boast of...
The transgender former U.S. Army analyst, who served 7 years in prison for leaking classified data, tearfully thanked Barack Obama for granting her clemency.
The transgender former U.S. Army analyst, who served 7 years in prison for leaking classified data, tearfully thanked Barack Obama for granting her clemency.
The transgender former U.S. Army analyst, who served 7 years in prison for leaking classified data, tearfully thanked Barack Obama for granting her clemency.
Robert Melson, 46, was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. CDT Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said.
Robert Melson, 46, was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. CDT Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said.
The judge denied a defense bid to make Andrea Constand's sexual orientation an issue at Bill Cosby's trial.
A N.Y. appeals court panel ruled chimpanzees don't have the rights of people, after an animal rights group sought they be declared "persons," with legal rights.