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  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | New Brochure on Health Care Reform and Medicare Available

  Seniors around the country who count on Medicare for their health coverage and have questions about how the new health care reform law impacts their coverage can find many of those answers in a new brochure that will be in their mailboxes soon or by downloading a copy here

• Protect Our Shores

  Ban Drilling Off Florida's Coast

  The debate over the safety of offshore drilling is over. The spill from the Deepwater Horizon has ended it. Now, we must act quickly and decisively to make sure Big Oil isn't successful in putting rigs off Florida.

  
  
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  On Faith Panelists Blog: What's really immoral: slave wages paid to illegal immigrants - Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

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  he "larger moral or spiritual obligation" in the case of illegal immigration is to tell the truth about why it exists. Employers use the undocumented to drive down wages, enabling higher profits. The best biblical text to address this issue is not Genesis 4:9, "Am I my brother's keeper," it's Luke 10: 7,"[T]he worker deserves his wages.

  
  

• On Faith Panelists Blog: Illegal Immigration and Christian Values - David Gushee

  .Illegal immigrants are flouting U.S. laws, but does affluent America (or Arizona for that matter) have a larger moral or spiritual obligation to help illegal immigrants who are trying to better their lives? What about religious obligations to welcome the stranger? Are we our brother's keeper?

  
  

• Kendrick Meek | Join Team Kendrick Meek | Sign the Petition. Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

  We must not let political games or ideological squabbles overwhelm our best chance to bring about this long-sought change.

  
  

• Is Charlie Crist The De Facto Democrat In The Florida Senate Race? | TPMDC

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  .In the two months since Gov. Charlie Crist began building up to and ultimately did switch from Republican to independent, he appears to have overtaken Rep. Kendrick Meek as the de-facto Democratic candidate in the race against Republican Marco Rubio, according to the polls

  
  

• AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Tell Congress: Vote for Jobs Now!

  If members of the U.S. House of Representatives support creating jobs and putting Americans back to work, as they so often claim, they’ll vote this week for a bill that creates jobs and makes Wall Street pay, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

  
  

• Burrus Criticizes Exclusion of Postal Unions from OIG Workshare Audit

  APWU President William Burrus has criticized a decision by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to exclude postal unions from providing input into a recently-announced audit of postage workshare discounts. The OIG plans to interview a range of “stakeholders,” including mailers’ representatives — who are the beneficiaries of the discounts — Burrus noted

• Meek Slams Crist: ‘I Don’t Need Talking Points’ to Talk Union Issues | The Jacksonville Observer

  ..Saying that Gov. Charlie Crist’s speech to one of the state’s largest labor unions was not enough to make the newly independent U.S. Senate candidate a friend of the group, Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek said Saturday morning that he should receive the group’s endorsement, not the newly-independent governor.