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Doctors work hard to find medical options for their patients. Corporations work hard to award stock options (the right to buy shares in the future, usually at a steep discount) to their top executives. Which effort would you like your tax dollars to support?
AFT’s just-launched “Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education” initiative aims to ensure that all children have access to services that meet their emotional, social and health needs.AFT President Randi Weingarten told the nearly 3,000 educators in Washington, D.C., for AFT’s TEACH Conference that teachers are not here to protect the status quo in public education, but to build up and support public education for generations to come.
Before Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and his hand-picked emergency manager Kevyn D. Orr rushed the city’s bankruptcy filing to federal court last week, they refused to sit down and discuss the future of the city’s workers and retirees, AFSCME President Lee Saunders said this morning on the Bill Press Show. He told Press:They have not sat down and talked with the union at all in Detroit. They have refused to do so, to talk about how these issued can be resolved. They have said they’ve attempted to have these kinds of discussions. That is a bold faced lie.
The Massachusetts State Police photographer who leaked pictures of the Boston Marathon bomber manhunt has been placed on restricted desk duty after a closed-door hearing Tuesday.Sgt.
A 28-year-old mother was identified as the second victim of a triple homicide in a Cleveland suburb where the bodies of three women were found wrapped in plastic bags.
The Indiana AFL-CIO fought for and won dramatic improvements in the workers' compensation system this year. Over the next three years, several major increases in benefits and new workers' rights will be phased in. This will mitigate the effect of workplace injuries on those hurt on the job and their families in the Hoosier state, the Indiana AFL-CIO reports.
A doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing four people in revenge for his dismissal from a residency program at a Nebraska hospital.Dr.
On trial for murder and racketeering, James "Whitey" Bulger faced a new accusation Tuesday — that he took a 16-year-old lover to Mexico.
An Ohio judge channeled his inner Ebenezer Scrooge in ordering a creative sentence Monday: Five Christmases in jail.Judge Michael J. Holbrook of the Franklin County court is known for issuing “Holbrook holidays” to give individual’s time to think about what the crimes they have committed.
In her hilltop shanty, Gloria Isabel Ramirez had rice and beans and potatoes for dinner and nothing else.But she was not complaining.Some nights she has nothing for herself and her 12-year-old son, so she pleads with neighbors for food or money to buy food.And sometimes they go hungry in their two-room home, cobbled out of worn wooden planks that let the winds whip through. A few wobbly planks lead up to the doorway.
