Article: Apparel Industry Employers From Four States to Join Labor to Lobby for Health Care Reform

WASHINGTON, May 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A group of executives from the small business-dominated apparel industry will travel to Washington Tuesday (May 24th) to lobby Congress and the White House for a comprehensive change in the health care system. A joint industry-labor project, the goal of the day's activities is to demonstrate that support for reform is widespread among small businesses on which the escalating costs of health care insurance now falls unfairly and unevenly, despite opposition to reform from some organizations purporting to represent small business interests.

The apparel industry group of 15 will come from four states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. ...

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