Take Action to Help NY State Farm Workers Please help. In New York State, laws protecting workers categorically exclude farm workers from basic rights and protections leading to conditions that are one step from slavery.

Slogans aren't solutions Leave it to Bill McCollum to further cheapen a national debate on health care that already has been degraded by simplistic, inaccurate buzzwords. Florida's Republican attorney general Tuesday blasted the idea of a government-run health insurance option and tore a page out of the Washington GOP playbook

Meek criticizes LeMieux over firm's aid to foreign workers Although George LeMieux said he had nothing to do with the case, likely Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek blasted the interim senator for his firm's help to Mexican immigrant workers

CAPITOL HILL MANEUVERS• When Congress reconvenes Tuesday to consider overhauling the nation's health care system, few states will have more at stake than Florida. Of the 10 most populous states, Florida is alone in never having produced a Senate majority or minority leader; a House speaker or majority leader; a U.S. Supreme Court justice or a U.S. president or vice president. • In a 2008 analysis by the Washington-based news service Roll Call, Florida ranked 42nd among states in congressional influence. • Of the top 18 overall

Obama To AFL-CIO: Are You Fired Up?

Security union members to picket at Patrick on Tuesday Members of Security Police and Fire Protection of America Local 127 will conduct an informational picket in front of the main gates of Patrick Air Force Base starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday to protest an Air Force plan to shift the security force at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from civilian contracts to the purview of the Department of Defense