[JohnHuang2]

Friday, April 25, 2003

Quote of the Day by IowaHawk

[Sonny M]

One of the things I always thought was funny, was house Union pensions, when they are invested, there is a concentrated effort to make sure they go to companies that do not have unions. Then again, does anyone remember when the teamsters had a there hall built, they wouldn't use union labor because they claimed it was to expensive.

[kcvl]

Robert A. Georgine, the once-powerful president of the AFL-CIO's Building Trades Department, has been forced out of his post as chairman of Ullico Inc., the union-owned insurance company plagued by a stock-trading controversy that threatened to bankrupt the 78-year-old firm.

Yesterday's action sets the stage for union leaders to attempt to bring to a close a scandal that had undermined the credibility of organized labor.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27764-2003Apr23.html

[kcvl]

1999

ULLICO Chairman, President and CEO Robert A. Georgine, a long time activist for the rights of organized workers and others for health insurance, was appointed by President Clinton to the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. As a member of the Commission, he was instrumental in the development and support of its Consumer Bill of Rights (popularly known as the Patients' Bill of Rights).