Those blue dog democrats opposing public options, are they in effect paid off by the healthcare lobby? from Youtube friends
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Obama's doctor has healthcare view
This is making its rounds around the news http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/29/obamas-doctor-presidents_n_246870.html
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July 30, 2009
Obama's Doctor: President's Vision For Health Care Bound To Fail
The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure.
Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.
"I look at his program and I can't see how it's going to work," Scheiner told the Huffington Post. "He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it's going be incredibly expensive ... and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time."
Scheiner, who prefers a more progressive approach to reform, was hesitant about trying to divine the president's motives, although he said he believed that "in his heart of hearts" Obama "may well like a single-payer program."
"His pragmatism is what is overwhelming him." Scheiner added: "I think he's afraid that he can't get anything through if he doesn't go through this incredibly compromised program."
Admitting that he was not a political practitioner, Scheiner said he felt compelled to speak out because of his unique relationship with the president and this critical moment in the health care debate. A champion of a single-payer health care system, Scheiner noted repeatedly that he came to the debate from the perspective of having dealt with the hassles and pitfalls of the current system. His speaking out is part of a larger effort, launched by Physicians for a National Health Program, to push Congress to consider single-payer as an alternative to current reform proposals.
As Scheiner sees it, all alternatives simply fall short. Keeping private insurers in the market, he warns, would simply maintain burdensome administrative costs. He argued further that the pharmaceutical industry is not being asked to make "any kind of significant sacrifices" in the current round of reform negotiations. As for a public health care option, Scheiner insists that the proposal remains vague and inadequate.
"First of all, they haven't really gone into great detail about the public option," he said. "How much is it going to cost, are they going to really undercut private health insurance by a considerable amount? Will there be any restriction that you can get for public option?"
Story continues below Despite his policy critiques, Scheiner's affection for his long-time patient is quite obvious. He recalled the president as being "gracious" and "never pulling rank" when he came to his office. "Part of my shtick, is I sing songs and I love humor," Scheiner said. "I remember last time I saw him I told him a joke, he said, 'Doc, you told me that joke before.' I was so impressed he can remember my bad jokes -- this guy has to be really bright."
During the course of the campaign, Scheiner became one of the many mini-celebrities in Obama's orbit. When the then-Senator released a one-page summary documenting his health, criticism for its brevity was laid on the doc's doorstep.
"The guy was healthy, you know," Scheiner recalled. "What can you say? His only problem was that he smoked ... But there wasn't that much to say. If I had added anything it would have been pure drivel. There wasn't anything serious in his record. He'd never had anything. The guy is built like a rock, he could probably bench-press me...
"I think my most impressive time was when Jon Stewart actually mocked my report," he added. "I thought that was wonderful."
All of which makes his current criticism of Obama's health care policies all the more difficult. While Scheiner raved about the president's intellectual curiosity, he was at loss for words as to why Obama had consulted with private industry executives more than primary care physicians. And while he spoke glowingly about the president's oratorical talents, he expressed disappointment that Obama had not done more to explain the benefits of single-payer coverage to the American public.
The White House has said that the president moved away from a single-payer approach both because of philosophical objections (consumers should be allowed to keep their coverage) as well as political realities (limited support for the proposal in Congress). The administration's position increasingly resembles the maxim, Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
"It's a good question," Scheiner said, when asked if having watered-down reform become law was better than getting a single-payer system stalled in Congress. "Is something better than nothing? That is a hard one for me. That is a difficult one, because, in the end, I think [Obama's] program is going to fail."
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July 30, 2009
Obama's Doctor: President's Vision For Health Care Bound To Fail
The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure.
Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.
"I look at his program and I can't see how it's going to work," Scheiner told the Huffington Post. "He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it's going be incredibly expensive ... and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time."
Scheiner, who prefers a more progressive approach to reform, was hesitant about trying to divine the president's motives, although he said he believed that "in his heart of hearts" Obama "may well like a single-payer program."
"His pragmatism is what is overwhelming him." Scheiner added: "I think he's afraid that he can't get anything through if he doesn't go through this incredibly compromised program."
Admitting that he was not a political practitioner, Scheiner said he felt compelled to speak out because of his unique relationship with the president and this critical moment in the health care debate. A champion of a single-payer health care system, Scheiner noted repeatedly that he came to the debate from the perspective of having dealt with the hassles and pitfalls of the current system. His speaking out is part of a larger effort, launched by Physicians for a National Health Program, to push Congress to consider single-payer as an alternative to current reform proposals.
As Scheiner sees it, all alternatives simply fall short. Keeping private insurers in the market, he warns, would simply maintain burdensome administrative costs. He argued further that the pharmaceutical industry is not being asked to make "any kind of significant sacrifices" in the current round of reform negotiations. As for a public health care option, Scheiner insists that the proposal remains vague and inadequate.
"First of all, they haven't really gone into great detail about the public option," he said. "How much is it going to cost, are they going to really undercut private health insurance by a considerable amount? Will there be any restriction that you can get for public option?"
Story continues below Despite his policy critiques, Scheiner's affection for his long-time patient is quite obvious. He recalled the president as being "gracious" and "never pulling rank" when he came to his office. "Part of my shtick, is I sing songs and I love humor," Scheiner said. "I remember last time I saw him I told him a joke, he said, 'Doc, you told me that joke before.' I was so impressed he can remember my bad jokes -- this guy has to be really bright."
During the course of the campaign, Scheiner became one of the many mini-celebrities in Obama's orbit. When the then-Senator released a one-page summary documenting his health, criticism for its brevity was laid on the doc's doorstep.
"The guy was healthy, you know," Scheiner recalled. "What can you say? His only problem was that he smoked ... But there wasn't that much to say. If I had added anything it would have been pure drivel. There wasn't anything serious in his record. He'd never had anything. The guy is built like a rock, he could probably bench-press me...
"I think my most impressive time was when Jon Stewart actually mocked my report," he added. "I thought that was wonderful."
All of which makes his current criticism of Obama's health care policies all the more difficult. While Scheiner raved about the president's intellectual curiosity, he was at loss for words as to why Obama had consulted with private industry executives more than primary care physicians. And while he spoke glowingly about the president's oratorical talents, he expressed disappointment that Obama had not done more to explain the benefits of single-payer coverage to the American public.
The White House has said that the president moved away from a single-payer approach both because of philosophical objections (consumers should be allowed to keep their coverage) as well as political realities (limited support for the proposal in Congress). The administration's position increasingly resembles the maxim, Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
"It's a good question," Scheiner said, when asked if having watered-down reform become law was better than getting a single-payer system stalled in Congress. "Is something better than nothing? That is a hard one for me. That is a difficult one, because, in the end, I think [Obama's] program is going to fail."
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Fenton plant demonstration 7-24-09 UAW
Below is a Fox-news vid, yesterday in St. Louis, Missouri. It is a short snip of a demonstration/rally at the Fenton plant.
Yes, this plant (as well as about 7 others) in closing/closed in the United States. Business shipped to Mexico and Canada. Hell of a use of tax-payer supported enterprizes. Ralph M (our local Soar president) attended the rally.
This is copyrighted materials and I will withdraw if objections made: ---------------------------------------------
Yes, this plant (as well as about 7 others) in closing/closed in the United States. Business shipped to Mexico and Canada. Hell of a use of tax-payer supported enterprizes. Ralph M (our local Soar president) attended the rally.
This is copyrighted materials and I will withdraw if objections made: ---------------------------------------------
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Oldtime landmarks in Saint Louis, Missouri
This short vid showing landmarks is making its way around internet. Some might find it interesting:
By the way: some of the coffee cans were also made as well as filled in St. Louis, Missouri. I personally worked on the coffee line in my early Canco days.
By the way: some of the coffee cans were also made as well as filled in St. Louis, Missouri. I personally worked on the coffee line in my early Canco days.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Davis makes worst person again, twice in one week
This was on countdown this evening. Our St. Charles princess is yet again awarded the worst person in the world award. Cynthia Davis is doing St. Charles, Missouri proud in national eyes. There are some real bozos in Missouri's state house.
Note: this is a copyrighted clip and I shall withdraw if objections made. Even Marie Antoinette had a better answer to hungry folks. Not feeding hungry folks seems a bit "UnChristian" if you know what I mean.
Yes, hunger is a real motivator in third world nations. Seems some of our fearless leaders wish Missouri to be in the "third world" catagory. Look at the fine work done in Missouri on healthcare or poverty and more and more.
Note: this is a copyrighted clip and I shall withdraw if objections made. Even Marie Antoinette had a better answer to hungry folks. Not feeding hungry folks seems a bit "UnChristian" if you know what I mean.
Yes, hunger is a real motivator in third world nations. Seems some of our fearless leaders wish Missouri to be in the "third world" catagory. Look at the fine work done in Missouri on healthcare or poverty and more and more.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cynthia L Davis, Missouri princess
Cynthia Davis made Countdown's worst person in the world yesterday. She earned that by her remarks. Perhaps some of the voters need to contact this "princess". Even Marie-Antoinette had better sense than this. Below are bio, Countdown snip and Post Dispatch article. Most is copyrighted material and I shall withdraw if objections made.
------------- from her Wikipedia bio: Cynthia L. Davis (born November 23, 1959) is a Republican currently serving in the Missouri House of Representatives. She lives in O'Fallon, Missouri, and is married to Bernie Davis, with whom she has seven children: John, Benjamin, Cathryn, Matthew, Amanda, Susanna, and Philip.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts. She majored in music at Nyack College of Nyack, New York before marrying Bernie in 1980. After moving to Missouri Christmas Eve of 1984, she with her husband opened the Back to Basics Christian Bookstore in O'Fallon in 1989. In 1992 she was appointed to chair the legislative committee for the O'Fallon Business Association. She was first elected to the O'Fallon Board of Aldermen in 1994, served as its president in 1995, and was thereafter elected to five consecutive terms.
She was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Davis suggested in one of her district newsletters that she opposed summer feeding programs for poor children because child hunger could be a "positive motivator."[1] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch blasted her in an editorial, saying that she didn't know the needs of the state's children.[2] Other elected offices: Republican Committeewoman for Dardenne Township Secretary of Women Legislators of Missouri Vice-President of the First Capitol Federation of Republican Women She currently serves on the following committees: Vice-Chair Family Services Committee, Vice-Chair Healthcare Policy Committee, and the Elections Committee
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06.15.2009 9:00 pm Oblivious to the needs of Missouri’s hungry children
By: Editorial Board State Rep. Cynthia Davis offers a tip to hungry families.
State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it. “Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter. More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids.
They are an excuse “to create an expansion of a government program,” she says. Ms. Davis chairs the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. In that position, she might be expected to have insight into child hunger in our state. She might know, for instance, that about one in five Missouri children lives with hunger. That ties us with Louisiana for the nation’s seventh-highest rate, according to a report released last month by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America. Or that the recession has pushed the number of poor Missouri kids who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches by 8.3 percent this year, well above the national average. Apparently not. ”While I have not seen this as a problem in my district, it is entirely possible that the (summer feeding) program is designed to address problems that exist in other parts of Missouri,” Ms. Davis says in her newsletter. “The right way to solve this is with more education. If parents … don’t know how to serve nutritious meals, let’s help them learn to do that.” In that spirit, she offers some helpful hints: •
“Families may economize by choosing not to waste hard earned dollars on potato chips, ice cream or Twinkies.” • “Laid-off parents could adapt by preparing more home cooked meals rather than going out to eat.” • “Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break.” About 100,000 more people are unemployed in Missouri today than were jobless in 2007. Food pantries across the state are struggling to meet increased demand. The United Way of St. Louis and more than 100 area companies are participating in a food drive this week. And the plain, tragic fact is some children have parents who aren’t particularly interested in caring for them. Ward Cleaver and Cliff Huxtable are off the television airways. But Ms. Davis is skeptical about the need to feed poor children during the summer when schools are closed. If — if — there really is one, she says, “churches and non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer.” Or maybe not. “Most of our 18 (summer feeding program) sites are churches,” explains Rosemary Terranova, who oversees the program for St. Louis County. “We’re trying to support churches that want to offer some kind of summer recreation program for kids,” she says. “They supply the staff, we supply the food.” The program “has been a real blessing to us,” says Caroline Crenshaw of Bethesda Temple in Normandy, where 40 children attended day care last week while their parents worked. The summer feeding program’s cost is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which pays about $1.81 for each breakfast served and $3.18 for each lunch. Last year, 3.7 million meals were served by the summer feeding program at a total cost of less than $9.5 million. That’s a pretty good use of federal money. In the same generous spirit as Ms. Davis, we’d like to offer a suggestion. • Tip: When you chair a state special committee on children and families, you probably ought to learn something about the needs of children and families.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article printed from The Platform: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform URL to article: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/published-editorials
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------------- from her Wikipedia bio: Cynthia L. Davis (born November 23, 1959) is a Republican currently serving in the Missouri House of Representatives. She lives in O'Fallon, Missouri, and is married to Bernie Davis, with whom she has seven children: John, Benjamin, Cathryn, Matthew, Amanda, Susanna, and Philip.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts. She majored in music at Nyack College of Nyack, New York before marrying Bernie in 1980. After moving to Missouri Christmas Eve of 1984, she with her husband opened the Back to Basics Christian Bookstore in O'Fallon in 1989. In 1992 she was appointed to chair the legislative committee for the O'Fallon Business Association. She was first elected to the O'Fallon Board of Aldermen in 1994, served as its president in 1995, and was thereafter elected to five consecutive terms.
She was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Davis suggested in one of her district newsletters that she opposed summer feeding programs for poor children because child hunger could be a "positive motivator."[1] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch blasted her in an editorial, saying that she didn't know the needs of the state's children.[2] Other elected offices: Republican Committeewoman for Dardenne Township Secretary of Women Legislators of Missouri Vice-President of the First Capitol Federation of Republican Women She currently serves on the following committees: Vice-Chair Family Services Committee, Vice-Chair Healthcare Policy Committee, and the Elections Committee
---------------------------- Post Dispatch article: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/published-editorials/2009/06/oblivious-to-the-needs-of-missouris-hungry-children/
06.15.2009 9:00 pm Oblivious to the needs of Missouri’s hungry children
By: Editorial Board State Rep. Cynthia Davis offers a tip to hungry families.
State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it. “Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter. More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids.
They are an excuse “to create an expansion of a government program,” she says. Ms. Davis chairs the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. In that position, she might be expected to have insight into child hunger in our state. She might know, for instance, that about one in five Missouri children lives with hunger. That ties us with Louisiana for the nation’s seventh-highest rate, according to a report released last month by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America. Or that the recession has pushed the number of poor Missouri kids who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches by 8.3 percent this year, well above the national average. Apparently not. ”While I have not seen this as a problem in my district, it is entirely possible that the (summer feeding) program is designed to address problems that exist in other parts of Missouri,” Ms. Davis says in her newsletter. “The right way to solve this is with more education. If parents … don’t know how to serve nutritious meals, let’s help them learn to do that.” In that spirit, she offers some helpful hints: •
“Families may economize by choosing not to waste hard earned dollars on potato chips, ice cream or Twinkies.” • “Laid-off parents could adapt by preparing more home cooked meals rather than going out to eat.” • “Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break.” About 100,000 more people are unemployed in Missouri today than were jobless in 2007. Food pantries across the state are struggling to meet increased demand. The United Way of St. Louis and more than 100 area companies are participating in a food drive this week. And the plain, tragic fact is some children have parents who aren’t particularly interested in caring for them. Ward Cleaver and Cliff Huxtable are off the television airways. But Ms. Davis is skeptical about the need to feed poor children during the summer when schools are closed. If — if — there really is one, she says, “churches and non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer.” Or maybe not. “Most of our 18 (summer feeding program) sites are churches,” explains Rosemary Terranova, who oversees the program for St. Louis County. “We’re trying to support churches that want to offer some kind of summer recreation program for kids,” she says. “They supply the staff, we supply the food.” The program “has been a real blessing to us,” says Caroline Crenshaw of Bethesda Temple in Normandy, where 40 children attended day care last week while their parents worked. The summer feeding program’s cost is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which pays about $1.81 for each breakfast served and $3.18 for each lunch. Last year, 3.7 million meals were served by the summer feeding program at a total cost of less than $9.5 million. That’s a pretty good use of federal money. In the same generous spirit as Ms. Davis, we’d like to offer a suggestion. • Tip: When you chair a state special committee on children and families, you probably ought to learn something about the needs of children and families.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
USW has endorsed Trumka for AFL-CIO president
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The USW has endorsed Trumka for AFL-Cio president: PITTSBURGH – The United Steelworkers (USW) International Executive Board has unanimously endorsed Richard Trumka as the next president of the AFL-CIO.
Trumka, the federation’s current secretary-treasurer, is looking to succeed retiring AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at its convention in Pittsburgh this September. Trumka was first elected AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer in 1995.
“Not only does Richard have the experience and the intellectual capacity to do the job, he brings great heart and passion to the fight for issues that matter to America’s working families,” said USW International President Leo W. Gerard.
“We believe his life-long passion for helping workers, sparked by his own experiences as a third-generation coal miner, makes him the right person for the job.”
Steelworkers know Trumka for his willingness to support them and their issues on the picket lines across the country as well as in the halls of power in Washington, D.C.
http://www.usw.org/media_center/releases_advisories?id=0173
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This is his bio from AFL-Cio:
Richard L. Trumka was re-elected for a fourth term to the office of Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO in July 2005. He was first elected in 1995, the youngest secretary-treasurer in AFL-CIO history, as part of an insurgent campaign to reinvigorate the American labor movement. In 2009, President Barack Obama named Trumka to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker.
Trumka led the creation of the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program in 1997 to promote the retirement security of America’s working families. AFL-CIO member unions sponsor pension and benefit plans with more than $400 billion in assets and are a major force in the global capital markets. Under Trumka’s leadership, the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program promotes corporate governance reform, investment manager accountability, pro-worker investment strategies, international pension fund cooperation and trustee education and support.
As a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, Trumka is chairman of the Strategic Approaches Committee, charged with assisting affiliated unions that seek assistance in achieving their strategic goals through collective bargaining. He also chairs the AFL-CIO Finance Committee and the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Committee, which works to ensure workers’ deferred wages are wisely invested to provide the best long-term benefits to America’s working families.
At the time of his 1995 election, Trumka was serving his third term as president of the United Mine Workers of America. During his tenure as UMWA president, Trumka led the union in two major strikes against the nation’s coal companies—actions that resulted in significant advances in employer-employee cooperation and enhanced mine workers’ job security, pensions and benefits.
A member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council since 1989, Trumka was instrumental in developing tactics to rally the support of international labor on behalf of U.S. workers struggling for workplace justice against multinational conglomerates. He also served on the executive boards of the International Miners’ Federation and the ICFTU and played a key role in organizing a new global coalition of coal miners’ unions in five countries.
Trumka, a third-generation coal miner from Nemacolin, Penn., began working in the mines at age 19. As a member of UMWA Local 6290, he served as chairman of the safety committee. He soon became an activist in the Miners for Democracy reform movement.
He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and holds a law degree from Villanova University Law School. He served four years on the legal staff of the UMWA during the reform administration of Arnold Miller, returning to work in the mines in 1978. Subsequently, he was elected to the union’s executive board in 1981 and first elected international president in 1982. Since 1995, he has served as President Emeritus of the United Mine Workers of America.
Among the many awards Trumka has received are the Gompers-Murray-Meany Award from the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Labor Responsibility Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1990. In 1996 he received The Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award for his outstanding commitment to the American labor movement, the nation and to the State of Israel. He was also honored by The Sons of Italy Foundation with its 2003 Humanitarian Award.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/leaders/officers_trumka.cfm
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this is the wiki bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trumka
Richard Louis Trumka (July 24, 1949)[1] is an organized labor leader in the United States. He currently serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, a post to which he was elected in 1995. He previously was president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to December 22, 1995.
Trumka was born in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, a third-generation coal miner and son of Frank Richard and Eola Elizabeth (Bertugli) Trumka.[1] He went to work in the mines at age 19. He received a bachelor of science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1971 and a law degree from Villanova University in 1974.[1][2] He married the former Barbara Vidovich in 1982, and they have one son.[1]
From 1974 to 1979, Trumka was a staff attorney with the United Mine Workers at their headquarters in Washington, D.C.[1] He was elected to the board of directors of UMWA District 4 in 1981, and president of the United Mine Workers in 1982.[1]
While president of the UMWA, Trumka led the successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Company, which has been called a rallying symbol for the entire labor movement.[3] A major issue in the dispute was Pittston's refusal to pay into the industrywide health and retirement fund created in 1950. Mr. Trumka encouraged non-violent civil disobedience to confront the company and relied on a sophisticated corporate campaign involving Wall Street investors.
Besides his domestic labor activities, then-President Trumka established an office that raised U.S. mineworker solidarity with the mineworkers of South Africa while they were fighting racial apartheid.[4] He further served as the U.S. Shell boycott chairman, which challenged the multinational Royal Dutch/Shell Group for its continued business dealings in South Africa. For these steps, Trumka received the 1990 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
Upon joining the AFL-CIO, Trumka has focused on creating investment programs for the pension and benefit funds of the labor movement and fighting what he believes to be excessive corporate profits. He chairs the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, a consortium of manufacturing unions focusing on key issues in trade, health care and labor law reform. He co-chairs the China Currency Coalition, an alliance of industry, agriculture, services, and worker organizations whose stated mission is to support U.S. manufacturing.
On July 1, 2008, Trumka delivered a speech attacking racism in the 2008 presidential election.[5] A video [6] with an excerpt of the speech attracted more than 525,000 hits on YouTube, with Trumka becoming the first labor speaker to reach such a broad audience in cyberspace.[citation needed]
[edit] Notes
1.^ a b c d e f Who's Who in America. 62nd ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2007. ISBN 0083797011
2.^ Jim McKay, "From Mines to Summit of Unionism," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 23, 1995.
3.^ Frank Swoboda, "Coal Miner Strike Was Symbol for Labor Movement," Washington Post, January 2, 1990.
4.^ Hill, Sylvia. "Presentation: The Free South African Movement." African National Congress. October 10- 13, 2004.
5.^ John Nichols, "AFL's Trumka: Labor Must Battle Racism to Elect Obama," Capital Times, July 3, 2008.
6.^ AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
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