Want To Privatize Mental Health Care? Read This!

"Even after de-institutionalization, group homes have increasingly been privatized, meaning less oversight of their staffing levels or other practices and more incentive for the companies to cut corners to make a profit. Moulton was transferred to the home where she was killed after she was threatened by a hostile resident at another home."

New York Public Employees Agree To Concessions

The five-year agreement between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, and the Civil Service Employees Association, includes a three-year wage freeze, the first furloughs ever for state workers and an increase in the amount employees must pay toward their health insurance.

Robert Reich: The War On Workers Undermines America’s Economic Recovery

"This war on workers’ rights is an assault on the middle class, and it is undermining the American economy."
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"How did German workers do it? A big part of the story is German labor unions are still powerful enough to insist that German workers get their fair share of the economy’s gains."

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