Inside Government – August 7th, 2009

Michael D. Yates Author of \"Why Unions Matter\" Elise Gould Director of Health Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute Tom Webb President, AFGE SSA Local ...

Michael D. Yates
Author of “Why Unions Matter”

  • Union organizing, collective bargaining, and strategies for forming a union
  • How the Employee Free Choice Act will strengthen the U.S. labor movement
  • Why public sector unionization has increased, and what the private sector must do to increase its membership as well

Elise Gould
Director of Health Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute

  • Health care reform and address the possible taxation of employer-sponsored health care benefits
  • Where the small business community fits into the health care reform debate

Tom Webb
President, AFGE SSA Local 3615

  • Local 3615’s victory to secure an increase in transit subsidy benefits for SSA employees in the Washington, D.C. area

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