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• Re: Grocery Unions At Stop & Shop Take Obamacare's Leap of Faith
• Re: Tackling Concerns of Independent Workers
• Re: So Why Don't We Have Better Unions?
   

Re: Grocery Unions At Stop & Shop Take Obamacare's Leap of Faith

A rather poor effort to explain what actually happened. Needs a bit more research before one rushes to write an article. No one is losing insurance, rather the mechanism to provide it has changed and the ACA, favoring a privatized, for profit system over one that controls costs, is open for criticism.

Jeff Jones

via Portside's Facebook page

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Re: Tackling Concerns of Independent Workers

I have had contact with the Freelancers Union. It is not a union in the way that anyone who belongs to a union would define it. It is, basically, an insurance and healthcare provider. As "a large, influential, self-supporting organization of workers that pushes to advance their interests," as Ms. Horowitz calls it, does not make it a union.

Posting this article without comment is, in my opinion, contrary to the interests of readers of Portside Labor.,

David Berger

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Re: So Why Don't We Have Better Unions?

Just wanted to give some feedback in regards to Michael Hirsch's article.  His five dollar words make it difficult to understand his point and when it does start to make since half way through it, most would just not read it.  I'm sure it's probably my small vocabulary of just four letter words and hope that the union person that reads your articles is smarter than me.

I do believe most union members feel that the National AFL-CIO and its Unions Heads are just like Congress. We don't like what they say or may do but we can't get at them to make a change.

Mike Montgomery

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What you have just posted is the most enlightened piece on the labor movement I have ever read, and I am old enough to remember the labor struggles of the 1950s.  I was never a union member, and I now wish I had been, after Reagan came along.

Danny Greene

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