By: John Hovis and Chris Townsend - reprinted from Lab
Over time, fads come and go, yet for organized labor certain basic principles hold true. In the “big picture”
search for answers to the problems faced by labor today, outspoken contemporary labor leaders and well-meaning academics either inadvertently overlook, or chose to dismiss, the obvious reality: namely, there is likely to be no meaningful revival of the labor movement until rank-and-file members have a fundamental role in running their unions. Those who ignore - or choose to ignore - this truth, instead promoting union mergers, creating gigantic mega-locals, forging “partnership” agreements with employers, or continuing to pursue failed political strategies - will not find the path to revival. They are looking in the wrong direction.
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By: Jenny Brown
…the plan espoused by the HCAN coalition seems to be very close to what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton advocated all through the primary-regulate private insurance companies more, provide a mind-boggling patchwork of income-based subsidies (creating another layer of paperwork, tests and qualifications), and provide a public insurance alternative as a last resort. Worse, it continues to waste the money that could cover everyone…
"The private insurance industry, as it functions today, clearly must be replaced with a system that works" says Don McCann, Senior Health Policy Fellow with PNHP. "So what is the solution proposed by the HCAN coalition? Let`s replace the private insurance industry with the private insurance industry."
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By: By Muata Greene
As I watched the blow by blow, word by word coverage of the primary season in America and of the Democratic primaries, I thought that this is the period in the United States of America when the ideology of "Paternalistic Liberalism” has reached its ultimate.
You ask, what is Paternal Liberalism? Paternal is a late middle-English word meaning father, belonging to a father. Liberalism---a middle-English word denoting a freeman, social reformer, easy going, unselfish.
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