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Working Together: Real Health Care Reform Within Reach — If We Fight for It
Years ago, CWA and other unions were able to negotiate gradual, steady improvements in health protections for our families, along with gains in wages, retirement security and working conditions in contract talk
Principles for Health Care Reform
CWA, the United Steelworkers and the Auto Workers are working together in a joint effort to make comprehensive health care reform a key issue in the 2008 elections. The three unions agreed to a framework for reform that includes the following principles:
America’s Health Care Anxiety: CWA Leading Aggressive Campaign for Reform by 2012
Anxiety and worry about health care is no longer limited to those who don't have insurance.
Even people with good health care benefits — like those of us in CWA — worry what will happen when they retire, or what happens in the next round of bargaining if their company goes bankrupt.
Momentum Growing For Health Reform in ’08
Our health care situation is bad. In fact, it's become so serious and so damaging to our nation and our place in the global economy that there is a new political will to tackle this problem. Elected officials, employers, doctors and unions are demanding a solution — now.
More Employers Taking Aim At Retiree Health Benefits
The fate of retiree benefits is the "canary in the coal mine," as one policy analyst put it recently, for what everyone else needs to worry about as America's health care crisis deepens.