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Prime time last night was well worth watching. The NewsHour on PBS profiled AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hosted California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro.
NewsHour showcased Trumka’s start as a coal miner in Pennsylvania and his graduation from Villanova Law School, his rise to president of the Mine Workers and his key role in the tough battle against Pittston Coal Co. The segment included clips from those early days, through to his emotional acceptance speech at our convention in September, when he was elected AFL-CIO president.
As NewsHour pointed out, Trumka made his name “as a bulldog against corporate overreach” while he was AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer.
The segment went on to show a clip of Trumka saying:
I’ll stop demonizing big business just as soon as they put their country before their profits and they put their workers before their greed.
Watch this great segment here.
Later, on the Olbermann show, DeMoro discussed health care fraud—the fraud of health insurers who won’t pay claims, who overcharge patients and who fight against real health care reform legislation.
Watch it here.
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Brothers and Sisters, Friends of Labor and ALL Injured Workers,
It will be a Grand Day when AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka starts talking about Insurance Fraud by Employers and how it hurts Injured Workers.
Health Care for ALL is very important but the SILENCE about Claim Denial, Conflicting Medical Reporting, Legal Schemes to Delay and Deny Timely Lost Wage Compensation and the Scores of Terminations that follow an On the Job Injury in the Workmen’s Compensation must be given a VOICE! This ABUSE is the same conduct faced by others and it ALL must come to an end.
Right now Injured Workers are being held hostage and starved out by the same abusive tactics that are making headlines in the news today, yet Labor is SILENT about this conduct by employers which is KILLING any level of Respect or Dignity for this class of Injured people. A class of Workers which the AFL-CIO already has as members and should fully represent in this National Health Care battle.
We may be injured, but we not all dead! Where is the Leadership on this issue and where is the Voice of Labor on this aspect of the Health Care CRISIS?
Your Comments and Feedback are Welcome!!
Craig Michie
NvVIAW@aol.com
Nevada Voters Injured At Work
PS: Did you see the Federal Hearing on Nevada OSHA…
Injured Workers have been telling this story for years. Yet, without a VOICE, those responsible for Listening and Acting were ALL Looking the Other Way! As the Dead Piled UP, Nevada OSHA worked for the Employers and the Injured and Dead have paid for it. The Injured continue to pay the price for Workplace Injury!
The DEAD can’t speak any more!!
When they DIED, NEVADA Looked the other way!
Who will be the VOICE of the Injured who are damaged but must live on??
Should Private Health Care Plans pay for the Injured Workers?
Is this Corporate Welfare to be forgotten in this fight for Dignity?
Injured Workers represent the Human Carnage left behind. Are they to be forgotten too?
Where is the VOICE? Where is the Leadership?
For information on the Federal Hearing held on 10/29/99 go to:
http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/10/nevadas-workplace-health-and-s.shtml
Your Comments and Feedback are Welcome!!