Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign

Labor Campaign for Single-Payer  Healthcare

Healthcare Is A Right — Not A Privilege

WHEREAS in the aftermath of the Massachusetts special senatorial election, AFL-CIO President  Richard Trumka issued a statement declaring, “It’s time to organize and mobilize as never before  to make every elected or aspiring leader PROVE he or she will create the jobs we need in an  economy we need with the healthcare we need. I know we are the people who can mobilize a  massive army to force elected leaders to deliver;” and

WHEREAS despite the so-called economic recovery, the economic crisis for working people has  continued unabated, with growing unemployment and underemployment, rising home  foreclosures and evictions, and the underfunding of public education and vitally needed social  services; and

WHEREAS the government has bestowed billions of bailout dollars on the financial institutions  whose recklessness and greed created this economic crisis and who are rewarding those  responsible with obscene gigantic bonuses; and

WHEREAS the labor movement’s legislative priorities — a massive program for jobs, true  universal healthcare, and enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act — are all in great peril; and

WHEREAS while the government has no problem allocating a trillion dollars for two wars  thousands of miles away, it has not committed funds critically needed to put America back to  work, with healthcare and quality education for all; and

WHEREAS right wing, anti-labor forces, such as the Tea Bag movement, have brought hundreds  of thousands of people into the streets to advance their reactionary demands; and

WHEREAS there is a growing movement within the House of Labor to counter the right-wing  offensive against workers’ living standards with our own massive mobilization; and

WHEREAS various union bodies, including the South Bay Labor Council (CA), the Troy Area  Labor Council (NY), the San Francisco Labor Council, and the South Carolina AFL-CIO, have  adopted resolutions calling upon the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize a Solidarity Day III  March on Washington D.C. in the spring of 2010 to demand jobs, healthcare, housing, full funding  for public education and social services, and peace; now therefore be it

RESOLVED that the Labor Campaign for Single Payer joins with our brothers and sisters in  calling for a labor-sponsored march on Washington for jobs, peace and justice, which would have  the capability of mobilizing the kind of massive army Brother Trumka spoke of; and be it finally

RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to the AFL-CIO and to Change to Win.

Adopted by the LCSP National Meeting, March 7, 2010.

Download a PDF of this resolution.

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