I'm beginning to wonder if Chicago-based drug-maker Abbott Labs cares at all about its customers, its employees, or—God forbid—its public image. First, a judge ordered them to stand trial for unlawfully slashing employee benefits packages. Then, they settled a lawsuit with AIDS patients after boosting the price of one of their HIV drugs by 400%. Now, they’re laying off 1,000 workers in another "cost-cutting" move. No news on whether those 1,000 will come from their sizable Illinois workforce.
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Yesterday, we posted on the Chicago Urban League's effort to reform our school funding system, which they say discriminates against blacks and Latinos. Mayor Daley wasted no time in coming out in support of their lawsuit.
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The Belleville Diocese joins Chicago’s Archdiocese in cover-up. A former diocesan official testified in court that the diocese hushed allegations of sex abuse and continued bouncing a suspected molester from parish to parish. They let “bygones be bygones”, to use his phrase. Not only that, but now the diocese says one of the victims cannot seek justice in court because his statute of limitations has expired. Hmm. It seems we've heard this argument before. Lets not forget where that led…
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More fallout from the Marion VA horror story. IL Rep. Jerry Costello reacted strongly to the VA’s latest report, which exposed negligent management at the hospital. Costello says the Justice Department needs to step in and investigate what happened to the nine (or more) veterans who suspiciously died at the hospital.
“When an administrator hears about nine people dying in one of their hospitals, I’d be on a plane immediately saying ‘what the hell went wrong,’” he said. “That didn’t happen.”
We feel the same way.
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