{"id":859,"date":"2007-09-27T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2007-09-27T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:45:00","slug":"with-health-deal-uaws-clout-influence-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"With health deal, UAW&#8217;s clout, influence grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070927\/AUTO01\/709270369\">With health deal, UAW&#8217;s clout, influence grow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;The size and visibility of this trust fund puts the UAW at the epicenter of the health care debate,&#8217; said Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California, Berkeley and a longtime adviser to the union. &#8216;It expands the UAW&#8217;s visibility, influence and clout in a major way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The UAW has long been an outspoken advocate for nationalized health care. Union leaders already are making it clear that they intend to use their new clout to push for a national solution to rising health care costs. &#8216;(This) strengthens our commitment to national health care reform,&#8217; said Alan Reuther, the UAW&#8217;s chief lobbyist in Washington. &#8216;This is an issue that has to be addressed by Congress.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The timing could not be better. &#8216;National health care could be on the agenda as early as 2009,&#8217; said Mike Whitty, a labor expert at the University of Detroit-Mercy. &#8216;It will allow the union to take the lead in pushing for a single-payer national health policy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Another push towards the tipping point?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With health deal, UAW&#8217;s clout, influence grow: &#8220;&#8216;The size and visibility of this trust fund puts the UAW at the epicenter of the health care debate,&#8217; said Harley Shaiken, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With health deal, UAW&#8217;s clout, influence grow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-single-payer-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}