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

News and AFSCME Updates

(2006) 2007 Archive (2008)

WV and other relevant news
12/14	Friday Alert: Budget and Medicare Bills Passed: Implications for Seniors
12/21	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Bush Continues to Block Funding for Important Programs
12/19	DHHR ban on blue jeans upheld
12/14	Christmas for nurses
12/14	Friday Alert: More Than 3 Million Seniors Will Fall into Donut Hole Next Year
12/12	Circuit Court Overturns DHHR Dress Code Grievance
12/7	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate GOP and White House Side with Health Insurance Industry Against Seniors and Doctors
12/7	Friday Alert: Alliance Members Protest Medicare Advantage Private Insurer Subsidies
11/30	Friday Alert: Latest Information on Premiums Can Help Seniors Choose Their Drug Plan
11/16	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Fails to Override the President's Veto of Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill
11/14	AFL-CIO, AFSCME and others Question PEIA on Lost Disk
11/16	Friday Alert: Bush Still Giving Congress Fits With Vetoes That Deny Health Care
11/9	AFSCME Legislative Report: Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill Faces Bush Veto
11/9	Friday Alert: Beneficiaries Can Change Medicare Part D Plans Beginning Next Week
11/2	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate GOP Leaders Block Progress on Children's Health Bill
11/2	Friday Alert: As SCHIP Funding Deadline Nears, Obstructionists Still Standing Together
10-30	AFSCME WV Council 77 Constitutional Convention Update
10/26	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Passes Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill
10/26	Friday Alert: SCHIP Passes the House Again
10/21	AFSCME Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
10/19	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Fails to Override the President's Veto of Children's Health Bill
10/19	Friday Alert: SCHIP Veto Override Attempt Falls Short
10/12	AFSCME Legislative Report: Next Week the House will Vote to Override Veto of Children's Health Bil
10/12	Friday Alert: U.S. House to Attempt Override of SCHIP Veto on Thursday
10/10	PEIA Update and Public Hearings
10/5	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Vetoes Children's Health Bill/AFSCME Launches Media and Ground Campaign to Override Veto
10/5	Friday Alert: President Bush Vetoes Health Insurance for Children
10/3	Bush Vetoes Child Health Plan
9/28	AFSCME Legislative Report: House and Senate Approve Children's Health Bill By Large Bipartisan Margin
9-28	Friday Alert: General Motors Strike Ends
9/27	UAW’s ‘victory’ may really be last gasp; Industrial unions are no longer the backbone of organized labor
9-27	Unions Keep Growing, AFSCME Leads the Pack
9/21	AFL-CIO Votes Holt-Baker New Executive Vice President
9/21	AFSCME Legislative Report: House and Senate to Vote on Children's Health Bill–President Reiterates Veto Threat
9-21	Friday Alert: Alliance Members Tell Congress to Stop Medicare Advantage Overpayments
9/14	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Approves Transportation-HUD Spending Bill Above President's Request
9-14	Friday Alert: GAO Audit Shows Insurers Benefiting Excessively from Medicare Advantage
9-10	Friday Alert: More Than 600 Retirees Lobby Congress on Medicare and Social Security
9/7	AFSCME Legislative Report: Dark Clouds Threaten Children's Health Bill
9-6	Help Us Protect Health Care for Kids and Seniors!
8-31	Friday Alert: As Census Announces New Figures Regarding the Uninsured ...
8-31	Labor Day 2007 by AFSCME President Gerald McEntee
8/24	Friday Alert: Report Card Shows Seniors Pay More Under Part D Than Under Other Drug Plans
8/17	Friday Alert: U.S. is only 42nd in Life Expectancy
8/17	Case Decisions: Appeal to Circuit Court in process for AFSCME members Ethel Boggs, et al., v. WV Department of Health and Human Resources Lori Williams, et al., v. WV Department of Health and Human Resources
8-11	The Bridge Collapse: Horror, Grief, Heroism and anger
8/10	Friday Alert: Alliance Member Speaks for Millions of Americans on Health Care
8/3	AFSCME Legislative Report: Efforts to Undo Food Stamp Anti-Privatization Protection is Sidelined
8/3	Friday Alert: House Medicare Advantage Vote a Victory for Seniors
7-27	AFSCME Legislative Report: House of Representatives Takes Major Step Toward Curbing Privatization
7-27	Friday Alert: Alliance Members Mobilize As Medicare Advantage Legislation Moves
7-20	Friday Alert: Monday is National Call-in Day for Stopping Medicare Advantage Overpayments
7-19	AFSMCE e-Action Network: An Inconvenient Truth for a SICKO Administration
7-13	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Appropriations Committee Passes Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill for FY 2008- Floor Vote Set for Next Week
7-13	Friday Alert: Medicare Advantage Takes Center Stage
7-6	Friday Alert: Medicare Advantage, Re-importation Votes Coming Soon
6-29	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate GOP Leaders Block the Employee Free Choice Act
6/29	Friday Alert: Road to Privatizing Medicare Hits a Pothole
6-29	DOH Transportation workers get better pay
6-26	AFSMCE e-Action Network: EFCA: Our Fight Has Just Begun
6/22	Friday Alert: Senate Set to Vote on Employee Free Choice Act
6/22	AFSCME Legislative Report: AFSCME Members Rally and Lobby for the Employee Free Choice Act
6/15	Friday Alert: 109th Congress Disappointed Seniors in 2006, Alliance Voting Record Reveals
6/15	AFSCME Legislative Report: Employee Free Choice Act Ready for Senate Debate
6/8	Friday Alert: Campaign is Launched to Stop the Privatization of Medicare
6/8	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Immigration Bill Hits Roadblock
6/1	Friday Alert: Long Term Care Under Congressional Scrutiny
5/25	Friday Alert: Rep. Stark Takes on Insurance Industry
5-25	AFSCME Legislative Report: Deal Reached on War Spending Bill
5/18	Friday Alert: Chrysler Deal Brings Retiree Health Care Issue to the Front and Center
5-18	AFSCME Legislative Report: Congress Passes FY 2008 Budget Resolution
5-11	AFSCME Legislative Report: Negotiations Between House and Senate Start on Congressional Budget Agreement
5/11	Friday Alert: Senate's FDA Bill Will Not Allow Consumers to Re-import Prescription Drugs
5-4	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Fails to Override Veto of War Bill
5/4	Friday Alert: U.S. Senate Clears Way for Prescription Drug Reimportation Votes
5-3	NEW State Employee Grievance Procedure Details
4-27	AFSCME Legislative Report: Despite Veto Threat, Congress Approves War Spending Bill
4-27	Friday Alert: Administration Uses Trustees Reports to Scare Seniors
4-20	Friday Alert: Senate Blocks Effort to Lower Medicare Costs
4-20	AFSCME Legislative Report: Filibuster in Senate Kills Prescription Drug Negotiations Bill – For Now
4-16	Friday Alert: Medicare Showdown in U.S. Senate: Take Action Now
4-13	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Acts to Allow the Government to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices for Medicare
4-11	'MEET & CONSULT' Pilot Project Begins for DOH employees
4-5	Friday Alert: SPECIAL SPRING-HOLIDAY, THURSDAY EDITION
4-5	2066 DHHR employees to Get $2000 increase in lieu of 3.5%
3-30	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Votes for Troop Withdrawal
3-30	Friday Alert: Insurance Companies Caught Denying Care to the Most Vulnerable Seniors
3-30	AFSMCE e-Action Network: Tell Your Senators to Support the Employee Free Choice Act
3-29	AFSCME West Virginia's Barb Spradling ~ Labor Woman of the Year!!
3-23	Friday Alert: U.S. Senate Rejects Medicare Cuts
3-16	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Budget Committee Approves Budget Resolution
3-16	Friday Alert: CDC Report Examines Overall Health of Older Americans
3-9	AFSCME Legislative Report: War Supplemental Bill on the Move
3-9	Friday Alert: Most Willing to Pay More in Exchange for Universal Health Care
3-6	AFSMCE e-Action Network: The Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities just launched a petition opposing President Bush's plan to cut vital public services
3-2	AFSCME Legislative Report: In a Big Victory for Labor, House Passes the Employee Free Choice Act
3-2	Friday Alert: Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Passes in the House
3-2	AFSMCE e-Action Network: Urgent - What a Show!
2-27	AFSMCE e-Action Network: Urgent - Tell Congress to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
2-23	Friday Alert: Health Care Spending May Rise to One-Fifth of All U.S. Expenditures
2-16	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Passes Spending Bill for FY 2007
2-16	Friday Alert: President Bush: Caught Telling the Truth?
2-12	Legislative Update at midpoint of '07 Session
2-9	AFSCME Legislative Report: Unrealistic Bush Budget Submitted to Congress
2-9	Friday Alert: Bush Budget Takes a Bite out of Medicare, Medicaid
2-5	WV Alliance for Retired Americans Newsletter, Jan. 2007 (pdf)
2-2	AFSCME Legislative Report: Minimum Wage Increase is Finally Approved By the Senate But With a Price
2-2	Friday Alert: Is Your Representative or Senator a Committee Chair?
2-1	AFSCME WV Update: Lobby Day details - DOH / DHHR Level 4 info
2-1	DHHR Reclassification News
2-1	DOH 'locality pay' details: Level 4 Grievance date set!
1-26	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Blocks Minimum Wage Bill without Tax Cuts Setting Up Clash with the House
1-26	Friday Alert: Many Not Impressed by President's State of the Union Address
1-19	AFSCME Legislative Report: House passes all items of their 100 Hour Agenda- A major victory for working families
1-19	Friday Alert: Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Weighs in on Social Security and Medicare
1-16	Teacher raises often favored
1-12	Friday Alert: Medicare Price Negotiation Vote Passes in House By Wide Margin
1-12	AFSCME Legislative Report: Huge Minimum Wage Victory in the House
1-12	AFSMCE e-Action Network: Tell Your Senators to Make Prescription Drugs More Affordable
1-11	Bonus gets chilly reception
1-8	AFSMCE e-Action Network: Tell Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage
1-5	Officials call CHIP rule unfair to state workers
1-5	Level 4 Grievance date set!
1-5	AFSCME Legislative Report: It's Not Your Father's Congress
1-5	State workers' pay could go up
1-5-07	Officials call CHIP rule unfair to state workers
2006 News and Update Archive


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