This is to inform you of a situation with our Retiree’s that were employed by Windstream Communications.Effective July 1, 2010 in the states of Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico this company has raised their health insurance premiums from $170.00 to $1,700.00 a month, an increase of about 800%.
Windstream Communications headquarters is located in Little Rock, Arkansas.Joe Harvey is Manager of New Mexico (575-691-9532 phone number).Please have everyone you know cal their State, Federal Representatives & Senators.We believe the company is doing this because of the new healthcare reform bill that was just passed.This is of great concern for us retiree’s every where.If we allow this to go on it will spread like wild fire from one company to another.This is affecting all retiree’s that have worked for all these benefits.Your prompt attention to this situation will be greatly appreciated.Any help and/or support you can give will be of great help.An injury to one is an injury to all.
Information pickets will be conducted on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 7:45 am – 9:45 am at the following locations:
Espanola:2000 N. Riverside Drive
Ruidoso:575-937-0509call for location
Hobbs:Corner of Shipp and Snyder
Carlsbad:600 S. Main Street
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Jimmy Funk, Steward Local 6171, Bernice Romero 505-804-8080, or Kathy Crawley at 505-401-1250, or the union hall at 505-266-0669 and leave a message.
New Mexico’s next Governor, Diane Denish, will be at the AFSCME Hall to meet our members and answer any questions you may have.This is the perfect time to listen to why she IS New Mexico’s best choice to be our next Governor.
I am excited to write you about joining me as a sponsor of my 80th Birthday Benefit Concert. The event will be a celebration of Weaving Social Justice Movements Together. Carlos Santana, Lila Downs, Zack de la Rocha, and Pete Escobedo will join me in a concert style event at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Friday, August 13th, 2010. Martin Sheen, Benjamin Bratt, Ed Begley Jr, Culture Clash and many others will help bring the movements for peace, immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, women’s equality, environmental justice, GLBT and civil rights to the audience.
Sponsorships will allow us to webcast the concert to over 20 simultaneous fundraisers being organized throughout the country. The events will promote bringing together grassroots organizations in each community. With the current environmental disaster and anti-immigrant bashing, now is time to work together, organize, educate, and mobilize.
Proceeds will benefit The Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF), a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization (www.doloreshuerta.org) dedicated to promoting community organizing. The Foundation has a powerful record of training new organizers in building and developing local organizations of poor, immigrant, and working people, especially women and youth.
Thank you for your consideration.
Please respond by contacting Camila Chavez, DHF Executive Director, at 661-322-3033 or weavingmovements@doloreshuerta.org ¡Sí Se Puede!
AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate’s 61 to 38 vote this morning to end the filibuster on the Jobs Bill:
“The U.S. Senate took a bold step forward today in the effort to protect jobs and bolster America ’s economic recovery. AFSCME members have mobilized around the country to secure this victory, urging the Senate to do the right thing and avoid prolonging the economic crisis that confronts us in every community in this country. By breaking the Republican filibuster on emergency aid for the states, the Senate has thrown a lifeline to millions of Americans who are being hit hard by the worst economy since the Great Depression. We are particularly grateful for the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid and the persistence of Senate Democrats. As we look to November, Americans have a clear choice: Democrats who will do what it takes to save and create jobs and get our economy moving, or Republicans who are all too willing to watch the economy stall for their political gain.”
We're at a critical moment for the folks who depend on public services and the workers who provide them.
Today, the U.S. Senate will vote on whether to provide billions of needed dollars to state and local governments that would do nothing less than help prevent severe cuts to public services and jobs. We need you to join us in demanding that Congress keep America working.
This is about you. If Congress fails to act, more than 900,000 public and private sector workers will lose their jobs.
Republicans in Congress have blocked every piece of jobs legislation and every dollar of state aid, putting the jobs and lives of hundreds of thousands of people on the line. H.R. 1586 includes $16.1 billion in state fiscal aid (known as FMAP) and $10 billion in education jobs funding.
