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The work of the State Coverage Initiative (SCI) and the Ohio Health Quality Improvement Summit did not go unnoticed in the budget proposal presented this week by Gov. Ted Strickland. In spite of what he has called the tightest state budget in 46 years...
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ISSUE ONE: Reforming the Ballot Process for Issues This proposed constitutional amendment would reform the statewide ballot issue process. With the increasing number of issues being brought to the ballot in Ohio a number of ambiguities in the law have...
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Columbus – Members of the Service Employees International Union District 1199 (SEIU District 1199) convened in Columbus this past weekend to seat newly elected officers and outline plans that will affect thousands of members throughout the three-state...
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Earlier this year SEIU worked in coalition with hundreds of other organizations to pass HB 545 reforming the payday lending industry in Ohio. Among other provisions, HB 545 reduced the payday loan interest rates from 391% to 28% APR. Currently, the national...
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Monday, August 11, 2008 Endorsements complemented by Member Political Organizer Program Columbus – With a desire to change the face of the Republican-controlled state legislature and White House, members of the Service Employees International Union District...
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Major Harris, a leader in every sense of the word, passed away Feb. 19. A young wall washer in 1964, brother Harris was a part of the original organizing drive at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland. When workers at Lutheran Hospital won the Union, he was...
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By CHRISTOPHER MAAG, The New York Times - - CLEVELAND — Cleveland is suing 21 of the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions, accusing them of knowingly plunging the city into a financial crisis by flooding the local housing market with subprime...
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Republicans say they want to prevent voter fraud. Democrats say rights will be damaged. Neither has concrete evidence. By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer - - WASHINGTON -- Just as the 2008 election is shifting into high gear, the Supreme...
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NEW YORK, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It might be all the eggnog we have been drinking this week, or just the unbelievable irony of it all, but SEIU's folks at BehindtheBuyouts.org couldn't resist some idle speculation about what may have been going through...
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Please find attached to latest SEIU Legislative Update. Stories in this issue include: Ohio Healthy Families Submit 268,000 Signatures for Paid Sick Days President Bush Vetoes SCHIP Bill Again Ohio Payday Lending Bills Receive First Hearing California...
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By Al Yoon and Jonathan Keehner, Rueters NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Key funding for Carlyle Group's $6.3 billion leveraged buyout of U.S. nursing home giant Manor Care Inc. has been pushed to the first quarter of 2008, delayed from initial investor...
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Andrew Stern, head of SEIU, says foreign as well as U.S. workers should share in employers' success. - By Molly Selvin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Andrew Stern, maybe the most powerful union boss in the country, doesn't always act the part. As president...