A new contract between United Auto Workers and General Motors that includes the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association awaits ratification by rank-and-file union members, with voting likely to start this weekend, the
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While some uncertainty does exist in climate projections and future health vulnerability, overall increases in heat-related premature mortality are likely by the 2050s, according to a recent study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and soon to be published in the November 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. In metropolitan New York, researchers estimate a 47 percent to 95 percent increase in summer heat-related deaths when compared to the 1990s.
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Responding to the Dignity in Care report from the Healthcare Commission, Paul Cann, Director of Policy at Help the Aged, says: ‘Older people are human beings - not objects or numbers. It’s nearly ten years since we first exposed the shortcomings in hospital care and dignity for older people1, yet we are still hearing all the time about shocking abuses of dignity.
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