Labor's heavy hitters in the city (Health Care Rally)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailymail.com/News/200908020352

Monday August 3, 2009

by Ashley B. Craig
Daily Mail staff

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Early clouds threatening rain gave way to sunshine as local members of the United Mine Workers and AFL-CIO gathered at the Capitol complex for a "Turn America Around" rally to gain support for health care reform.

The issue has been widely debated since last year's presidential elections.

National and state union officials delivered the rallying cry to hundreds of people as free hot dogs and sno-cones were served.


Tom Hindman
Gov. Joe Manchin and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka talk during Sunday's rally at the Capitol. Manchin said working Americans often are the most vulnerable to health care problems.


With a large U.S. flag behind them, National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka along with Gov. Joe Manchin and state AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Larry Matheney spoke to the crowd from the steps of the Capitol.

Speakers noted that United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts, an eastern Kanawha County native, wasn't able to make it to the rally because he was with his mother at her home in Cabin Creek, where water levels rose after the weekend's rainfall.

While the officials spoke about the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to join unions and create penalties for employers who discourage their employees from joining unions, their focus Sunday afternoon was health care reform.

FULL 2 page story at link.

[LaPera]

1. I'm a strong union guy, the kind who republicans despise and would love to kill

- who wants only single payer universal health care for ALL nothing else will do and let it destroy the greedy sick insurance corporate pigs who feed of the healthy until the health get sick then dump them, who won't insure the truly sick...because it rakes away from their profit and then won't allow even a government option for those who can't afford the insurance industry pigs outrageous premiums and insurance companies force hospitals & clinics to force the uninsured to pay more at hospital if they need medial care for not having their insurance for profit...republican pigs all of them!