By NEAL FRUMKIN
The costs of prescription drugs are too damn high, forcing working families and retirees to choose between food, rent and life-sustaining medication.

That was the opening line of a resolution submitted by Edward W. Hysyk, president of the Retirees Association of DC 37, Juan Fernandez, president of Amalgamated Professional Employees Local 154 and myself, at the July convention of our national union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The resolution passed with the support of the 3,000 delegates at the convention in Boston. (Read more)