DeLauro, labor leaders meet on health care

From: New Haven Register | Date: March 14, 2006| Author: Damian J Troise | Copyright information

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, gave her annual legislative update to the state's labor leaders Monday under a storm cloud of layoffs and rising health care costs that have already fueled one major strike. "Middle-class families are facing challenges in the workplace, and each of us knows that this year we have had a particularly large number of labor issues here in Connecticut," she said. "The time has come to start discussing what we could do to get a handle on them."

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