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… statement on Good Jobs for America’s Workers reaffirms our commitment to fighting for jobs that provide decent wages and benefits, guarantee workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively, are fair, safe and healthy, give workers the … serves as a health care safety net for lowincome individuals, both elderly and nonelderly, providing comprehensive health benefits and longterm care coverage. And the state-operated SCHIP program and the Women, Infants and Children nutritional … traditional Medicare is paid. This will create a two-tiered system that allows private managed care plans to offer better benefits and lower premiums than seniors could get under the traditional Medicare program. In addition, the law establishes a …

… for jobs that support families and communities, that pay decent wages and that provide good health care and retirement benefits. We will fight for jobs in which workers can freely exercise their right to form unions and bargain collectively. We … our predecessors faced 50 years ago. Then, the jobs model adopted by leading employers meant family-supporting wages, good benefits, recognition and respect for the institutions of worker organizing and collective bargaining and opportunities for … for thousands of workers, our nation’s railroad retirement system provides critical pension, disability, unemployment and survivor benefits that must be protected and not cut or eliminated, as some have suggested for certain segments of the …

… on economic trends and best-practice models for turning deadend, low-paying jobs into family-supportive jobs that provide benefits and career ladders. Over the next two years, WAI will build on this capacity and develop similar expertise for …

… safe and healthy workplaces, we also will work to guarantee an adequate safety net of workers’ compensation insurance benefits for injured workers. Events around the nation as well as in our own communities and workplaces continually remind us … while employers and insurers enjoy rich rewards from the system. Recent reforms have worsened this trade-off: Worker benefits have fallen 38 percent since 1992, while employer costs declined by 41 percent over the same period. And there are strong indications in the insurance market that we can expect a new push to reduce benefits and tighten eligibility. A further indication that workers’ compensation programs around the nation are failing to …