Campaign Receiving Important Endorsements:
As we move into the fall campaign season, the McCracken for Congress campaign is receiving several important endorsements. Earlier this month we were honored to receive the endorsement from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. This is a key endorsement from an organization that is a leader in supporting the rights of the working people, not only in the 5th district, but in Pennsylvania and across the nation. read more »
White House Announces Bush Administration to Leave a Record Budget Deficit of $482 Billion.
Since January when we began our campaign for the 5th District seat in the US Congress, I’ve consistently stressed that my biggest concern is the fiscal mess that has happened in Washington. This week, White House officials admitted the Bush administration would leave office in January 2009 with a record budget deficit sitting on the books of $482 BILLION. This record $482 billion deficit is coupled with a record debt of $9.5 trillion. read more »
A busy week campaigning across the 5th district: read more »
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George is the guest on Pennsylvania Cable Network’s new program entitled “On the Issues” on Sunday, April 13th from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM. President George will be discussing issues that are important to Pennsylvania’s workers in the upcoming Presidential, Congressional and State Legislature elections. Another topic of discussion will be President George’s status as an uncommitted super delegate and its increasing importance at the Democratic National Convention. Pennsylvania Cable Network’s Vice President Brian Lockman will host the show.Source: Pennsylvania AFL-CIO
Well, here’s the labor announcement I was promising yesterday. Needless to say, everyone here at the campaign is very excited. I may be more excited than most as I used to work for the NH AFL-CIO and I’ve always been very interested in labor issues. It’s actually one of the reasons I wanted to work on Rick’s campaign. It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who recognizes his commitment to the working people of this district. Follow me below the fold to see the press release.
NEWS RELEASE
March 18, 2008
Contact: Don Powers
RICK VILELLO, CANDIDATE FOR 5th DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL SEAT RECEIVES UNION ENDORSEMENT read more »
(Cross-posted from the AFL-CIO Now Blog and Firedoglake.)
Anyone can get health care in the United States. Just ask George W. Bush. Last year in Cleveland, he had this to say to the 47 million Americans without health care coverage:
“I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”
With emergency rooms serving as the Bush administration’s solution to the nation’s health care crisis, so many people are cramming into them, patient care now is at risk, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. read more »
Reversing a decades-long downward trend, the percentage of the American workforce in unions edged up last year, the U.S. Labor Department reported.The change was minuscule – a tenth of 1 percentage point, from 12.0 to 12.1 – barely statistically significant. But for the labor movement, which is starved for any good news, even the tiniest upward blip is cause for encouragement.
Locally, Pennsylvania and Delaware saw gains in union membership and density.
New Jersey’s membership continued to slip despite big union wins among dealers in Atlantic City’s casinos and among professional and administrative staff at Rutgers University. read more »
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