AFSCME West Virginia Council77 - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

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(2005) 2006 Archive (2007)

WV and other relevant news
12-21	PEIA plan would cap costs: Protests spur agency to ease burden on retirees
12-15	Friday Alert: Senate Republican Leader Announces Plans to Oppose Negotiating Drug Prices
12-15	WV Retiree Newsletter December 2006 (pdf)
12-5	Important PEIA Public Hearings & Plan Information
12-1	Friday Alert(on Tuesday): SPECIAL EDITION - RETIREE HEALTH CARE AT STAKE
12-8	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: House Slated to Pass Stop-Gap Spending Measure to Keep Programs Afloat Until mid-February
12-8	Friday Alert: New Congress Makes Plans for First 100 Hours in 2007...
12-1	Friday Alert: Higher Percentage of Seniors Voted for Democrats in '06 Than in '04
11-20	2006 AFSCME & AFL-CIO WV Candidates Win Big!
11-17	Friday Alert: Bush Administration Vows to Block Negotiation of Drug Prices
11-17	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: New Congressional Leaders Selected
11-9	Friday Alert: Bush Administration Vows to Block Negotiation of Drug Prices
11-9	Friday Alert: SPECIAL ELECTION WRAP-UP AND VETERANS' DAY EDITION
11-8	WE DID IT! A Special Message from AFSCME President Gerald McEntee.
11-3	Friday Alert: As Election Day Arrives, Republicans Try Not to Talk About Scandals, Part D
10-31	AFSCME E-Activist Network: Watch AFSCME members and Labor 2006 in action!
10-27	Friday Alert: Bush's Social Security Privatization Remarks Dismay Some in Own Party
10-20	Friday Alert: Part D Failures Examined in New Report by Pennsylvania Alliance
10-13	Friday Alert: As New Report Shows Senior Vote Will Be Crucial in November...
10-6	Friday Alert: Key House Race Update
10-3	AFSCME Election Survey
9-29	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Congress Leaves Town with Most Program Spending Levels for Coming Year in Doubt
9-29	Friday Alert: Another Suspicious Privatization Attempt
9-22	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Republican Hill Leaders Block Tax Relief for Middle Class and Minimum Wage Increase
9-22	Friday Alert: Donut Hole Week a Bevy of Alliance Activity
9-21	AFSCME E-Activist Network: Tell Congress to Invest in America
9-19	AFSCME West Virginia Endorsed Candidates for the November 7, 2006 General Election.
9-15	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Senate Panel Looks at Nonprofit Hospitals
9-15	Friday Alert: Medicare Changes: Increased Fees for Everyone - Not Just the Wealthy
9-11	Friday Alert: SPECIAL NATIONAL CONVENTION REPORT
9-9	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Social Security Privatization Is Back!!
9-1	Friday Alert: Trial Lawyers Get the Word Out on High Prescription Drug Costs...
8-24	WEST VIRGINIA GRIEVANCE WORK GROUP MEETS
8-21	"News Alert" Labor 2006 Special Convention - From WV AFL-CIO
8-18	Friday Alert: White House Pushes to Cut Medicaid, Despite Lack of Support
8-18	AFSCME E-Activist Network: Tell the FCC "It's time to rein in mutual funds."
8-11	Friday Alert: Incumbents Face Uphill Battle
8-4	Friday Alert: Senate Blocks Estate Tax Cut/Minimum Wage Increase, Passes Pension Bill
7-28	Friday Alert: Rep. Stark Introduces National Health Plan
7-28	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: House Leaders Cancel Vote on Business Activity Taxes
7-21	Friday Alert: Americans United Shines Light on Doughnut Hole Problem
7-21	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Senate Approves 25 Year Extension of Landmark Voting Rights Act
7-18	Information Highway
7-14	Friday Alert: Social Security Under Attack
7-14	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Voting Rights Act Overwhelmingly Approved in the House
6-30	Friday Alert: House Democrats Unveil a Fix for Part D
6-30	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Estate Tax Vote Postponed
6-28	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Tell Your Health Care Story
6-23	Friday Alert: White House Sets its Sights on Social Security Again
6-23	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: House Passes Estate Tax Bill That Costs Nearly as Much as Full Repeal
6-16	Friday Alert: Congress May Consider Changes to New Medicare Law
6-16	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Internal Conflict Forces House Republican Leaders to Pull Back Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Spending Bill
6-9	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Estate Tax Repeal Rejected in Senate
6-9	Friday Alert: Key House Republican Renews Social Security Privatization Talk
5-26	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Senate Passes Immigration Bill Setting Up Clash With House
5-26	Friday Alert - Jury Finds Enron Executives Guilty
5-24	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Don't Rubber Stamp Excessive CEO Pay
5-19	Friday Alert - Proposed Part D Penalty Waiver: a Band-Aid on a Major Wound
5-19	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: House Passes Irresponsible Budget Resolution After Many House Republican Moderates Cave to Unenforceable Promises
5-12	Friday Alert - With Part D Deadline on Monday, Still Work to be Done
5-12	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Budget Pulled Again as GOP Moderates Feel the Heat from Their Constituents
5-12	AFSCME Retiree E-Activist Network - Extend the Medicare Part D Sign-Up Deadline
5-5	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Negotiations Continue Among House GOP Leaders on Crafting Budget Plan
5-5	Friday Alert - Administration Attempts to Create a Social Security and Medicare Crisis
5-4	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Here's what's new at AFSCME and around the web, including the winners of the AFSCME Family Scholarship
4-28	Friday Alert - Medicare Part D Problems Become More Evident
4-28	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Vote on "Patients Bill of Wrongs" Delayed in Senate
4-24	AFSCME WV Newsletter - Summer 2006, With Leadership Training Details
4-21	Friday Alert - Nevada on Course to Allow Reimportation of Prescription Drugs from Canada
4-13	Friday Alert - SPECIAL 2005 VOTING RECORD AND SPRING HOLIDAY EDITION
4-7	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: GOP Leaders Fail to Pass Budget
4-7	Friday Alert - Gov. Rendell Requests Release of WHCoA Materials
4-6	Low Pay Drives DOH Workers Elsewhere
3-31	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: House Budget Panel Ignores GOP Moderates and Approves Harmful Budge
3-31	Friday Alert - More Part D Problems
3-30	Endorsed Candidates For 2006 Primary Election
3-24	Friday Alert - Senate Votes "No" on Social Security Privatization
3-17	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Senate Overwhelmingly Rebuffs President Bush Boosting Funding for Key Domestic Programs
3-17	Friday Alert - Part D: In the Midst of Conflicting Republican Messages...
3-13	2006 WV Legislative Session Wrap-Up for Public Employees
3-10	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Senate Budget Committee Approves Budget Resolution & House Committee Delays Vote
3-10	Friday Alert - Senior Housing Crisis
3-6	AFSCME members lobby WV Legislature (with photos)
3-3	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Budget Debates Reaching Fevered Pitch as GOP Moderates Balk
3-3	Friday Alert - Bush Losing GOP Support
3-1	Immediate Action Needed...by you, fellow AFSCME members and every state worker you know...circulate and post this
2-24	Friday Alert - Medicare Part D's Price at the Polls
2-23	AFSCME WV Legislative Update - February 23
2-20	AFSCME members lobby WV Legislature - now includes photos
2-17	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Fight the Bush Administration's "Health Savings Accounts"
2-17	Friday Alert - Kourpias Calls for Reauthorization of Older Americans Act
2-17	AFSCME Legislative Highlights: Republican Lawyer Challenges New Budget Act
2-10	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Bush Releases His Federal Budget for 2007
2-10	Friday Alert - Bush Budget Privatizes Social Security
2-3	AFSCME WV Legislative Update
2-3	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Passes Budget Cuts, Again
1-31-06	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities
1-27-06	AFSCME Legislative Report: Judge Alito Heads for the Senate Floor
1-27-06	Friday Alert - States Will Be Reimbursed for Bailing Out Drug Plan
1-23-06	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Act Now to Protect Workers’ Rights
1-20-06	AFSCME Legislative Report: AFSCME Ads Run to Oppose Budget Cuts
1-20-06	West Virginia Council 77 makes National AFSCME magazine going out to 1.4 million members in all 50 states.
1-19-06	AFSCME and CWA oppose new proposed rule regarding “Interdepartmental Transfer of Permanent State Employees”
1-19-06	AFSCME E-Activist Network - Alito's record: bad for workers. Stop him now
1-13-06	Friday Alert - Part D Chaos Leaves Poorest and Sickest Seniors without Medications
1-13-06	What You Can Do to Celebrte Dr. King's Legacy
1-9-06	AFSCME to focus on Salary, PEIA, grievance process reform, protecting sick leave and reducing privatization of public sector jobs during Legislative Session
1-6-06	Friday Alert - New Year Ushers in Part D with Mixed Results
2005 News and Update Archive


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