PRESS RELEASE: NV State AFL-CIO Calls on Congress, Obama to Fix the Affordable Care Act
August 21, 2013NV State AFL-CIO Calls on Congress, Obama to Fix the Affordable Care Act
Resolution cites unintended consequences that harm current health plans
LAS VEGAS, NV - Today, the Nevada State AFL-CIO unanimously passed a resolution at its 57th Annual Constitutional Convention urging Congress and the Obama Administration to make regulatory changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in order to protect the current health plans managed by Taft-Hartley laws. As it is currently written, the ACA will have serious negative consequences on the collectively bargained healthcare of families all over the country.
"Our members fight hard every day to put food on the table and provide for their families, and we must fight just as hard to ensure that their benefits are protected for years to come," said Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Nevada State AFL-CIO. "This resoltuion shows that all of our labor members across the board are committed to making sure that any changes to our nation's health care system are done so in the best interest of working people, and do not negatively impact their way of life."
The resolution clearly explains that union members are merely seeking to keep the health care plans they currently have. President Obama and Congress promised union members that they would be able to keep their current health plans - but that promise is now under threat due to how the ACA is being implimented.
"We simply want to keep the health plans we currently have - nothing more or less," said Geoconda Arguello-Kline, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 226. "We certainly aren't looking for upgrades or special treatment - merely to keep the gains we have worked so hard to attain over the decades."
The resolution - one of the first of its kind in the country - goes on to outline the unintended consequences of the ACA including threatening the 40 hour work week, higher taxes on less coverage, and the potential disappearance of Taft-Hartley plans, which have been the bedrock of labor-management relations since 1947. To find out more about Taft-Hartley health care plans, you can visit www.nccmp.org.
In addition to today's resolution, a number of union and non-union organizations have increasingly been expressing similar exasperation with the slow pace of the Administration to fix aspects of the ACA that will allow the system to work in the interests of all Americans. Recently, union leaders from across the country issued a letter to Congressional leadership asking for a fix to the same issues. The resolution passed by the state federation shows a growing push from within the labor movement for Congress to consider the severity of the issue.
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Radiation From Japan Is Already Killing North Americans
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Radiation levels are already increasing in the food and water, babies born with thyroid issues linked to radiation are rising quickly and governments in Canada and the United States are raising the “acceptable levels” of certain toxic substances in the food being shipped in from Japan.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory, this is happening and it’s happening right now.
The fancy little picture at the top of the article isn’t showing you the flow of happy fun time thoughts from Japan back in March of 2012, it’s showing you the flow of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Yes, that sharp pain you just felt in your chest is the sudden realization that the image shows the radiation reaching almost past Hawaii more than a year ago.
Do the math – If that radiation screamed across the Pacific Ocean that far in one year, just how far do you think it has gotten since then? Look at what World Truth TV is saying and then you decide.
Samples of milk taken across the United States have shown radiation at levels 2000 percent higher than EPA maximums. The reason that milk is so significant is that it is representative of the entire food supply. According to an article published on Natural News, “Cows consume grass and are exposed to the same elements as food crops and water supplies. In other words, when cows’ milk starts testing positive for high levels of radioactive elements, this is indicative of radioactive contamination of the entire food supply.”If that doesn’t scare the ever-living crap out of you, then take a look at the list of foods you are now supposed to be wary of, you know, for only the next 30,000 years.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Deception Protection Agency, instead of refusing to prohibit the sale of tainted foods and mandatory testing of foods produced and harvested from the Pacific Coast, have simply raised the “acceptable levels” of radioactive material in foods.
How can we protect ourselves? First, be aware of what items are likely to be highly tainted.I don’t know about the rest of you, but that one way trip to colonize Mars is looking pretty damn attractiveright now.
1.) SEAFOOD: Question the origin of ALL seafood. Fish and crustaceans from the Pacific Ocean should all be considered to be poisoned with radiation.
2.) WATER: The rainfall and snowfall are all radiated. Do not drink any water that has not been filtered. The tap water that flows from your faucet has NOT been treated to rid it of radioactive particles. A recent report from the NY Times stated, “A rooftop water monitoring program managed by UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering detected substantial spikes in rain-borne iodine-131 during torrential downpours …
3.) DAIRY PRODUCTS: Milk and milk products from the West Coast states currently have the highest levels of radiation in North America.
4.) PRODUCE: Leafy Vegetables, Wines, Tomatoes, Strawberries….all produce from California or any other West Coast State are also likely to be tainted.
5.) MEAT: If an animal eats any leafy vegetable all along the West Coast, that animal has consumed radiation, and is poisoned. This is any animal from cows, pigs, goats, sheep to wild deer and other game.
If you eat the above foods from areas with high radiation levels, you are eating radiation and feeding it to your children. Slowly the radiation levels within your body will build up. This is PERMANENT.
Infant mortality rates across the United States have increased by more than 35% since the nuclear disaster, according to a court statement by Dr. Sherman with independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD. A study published in The International Journal of Medicine indicates that more than 20,000 deaths right here in North America can be directly attributed to the release of radioactive material from Fukushima.
Radioactive isotopes of the type released from Fukushima have a half-life of 30,000 years. This means that we must permanently change the way we prepare our food.
- Wash your food with soap and rinse it in filtered water.
- Be aware of the origins of your vegetables, fish, game and seafood.
- Keep abreast of radiation levels to help monitor where your food is acquired.
- Use only filtered water for drinking, cooking and ice.
- See more at: http://govtslaves.info/radiation-from-japan-is-already-killing-north-americans/#sthash.gOhbIFcs.dpuf
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