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January 26, 2012 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

By John Karebian, Executive Director of the Michigan Nurses Association   All workers deserve a say in their wages, benefits and working conditions. Without a strong voice in the workplace,…

December 2, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - 1 comment

By John Karebian, Executive Director of the Michigan Nurses Association   “In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as ‘right to…

November 22, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

Commentary: "Supercommmittee Should Have Taxed Wall Street to Heal Main Street" by John Karebian, Executive Director of Michigan Nurses Association The only thing politicians seemed to agree on about the…

November 15, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

By John Karebian, Michigan Nurses Association, Executive Director  It’s impossible to know what the supercommittee is thinking as they approach the Nov. 23 deadline to recommend cuts of $1.5 trillion or…

November 11, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

OK, supercommittee members Fred Upton and Dave Camp didn’t finally do the right thing and agree to hold a public meeting to listen to their constituents back home. That’s crazy…

November 2, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

Press Release: Nurses Use the Airwaves, Billboards to Tell Camp and Upton to Listen to Constituents   Rep. Dave Camp Billboard & Radio Ad   [audio:http://fightformainstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dave-Camp.mp3] Click here to download the Dave…

October 21, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

The nurses were fired up. About 100 of them stood in the intermittent rain, wearing ponchos and chanting at their rally outside Congressman Dave Camp’s  Midland office. Their signs of…

October 20, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

  Congressmen Dave Camp and Fred Upton, Michigan’s members of the supercommittee, are busy deciding what to cut and what to save in order to fix our country’s $1.2 trillion…

October 5, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

Michigan nurses protested at Congressman Dave Camp's office in Midland, telling him to stand up for Main Street workers and their families instead of Wall Street banks and rich CEOs….

September 30, 2011 - Posted by MainStreet - no comments

Unemployment in Michigan continues to rise month by month and many in Congress are going out of their way to protect millionaires over workers – but Michiganders were granted a…