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Big Labor Splits On Health Care Tactics
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 1/20/2010 | Sean Higgins

Posted on 01/20/2010 1:52:50 PM PST by Slyscribe

The nation’s two top labor coalitions have split over how to proceed on the health care bill, further damaging the already-fading chances that the bill will land on the president’s desk.

Bill Samuel, legislative director of the AFL-CIO, told reporter Greg Sargent that his organization is opposed to any plan that is based on passing the Senate version of the health care bill.

“We don’t want the House to pass the Senate bill,” Samuel told Sargent. “We would not be in favor of passing the Senate bill without fixing the problems that we’ve identified.”

But Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which leads the rival Change to Win coalition, writes in the Huffington Post that that is exactly what they should do.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; bhounions; biglabor; healthcare; seiu; taxes; unions

1 posted on 01/20/2010 1:52:50 PM PST by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe
Intramural firefight
2 posted on 01/20/2010 1:55:18 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Slyscribe
without fixing the problems that we’ve identified.”

Translation: without our $60 billion cut"

3 posted on 01/20/2010 1:57:39 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Cat fight. No disrespect to our beloved Viking Kitties!!!


4 posted on 01/20/2010 1:58:50 PM PST by willgolfforfood
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To: Slyscribe
A split of opinion between two separate groups on the Titanic about how the deck chairs should be arranged.

Buh buy, boys!!!

5 posted on 01/20/2010 1:59:21 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Always doing the opposite of what needs to be done!")
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To: Slyscribe

Only about 7% of Americans belong to unions.

Unions, which are almost entirely responsible for the economics which have driven jobs overseas, made businesses hire less skilled people so that they could be paid less in order to compete globally, and have generally hindered business rather than helped it.

Because of this, I am surprised the percentage of Americans in unions is not smaller!


6 posted on 01/20/2010 2:25:30 PM PST by Ev Reeman
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