Posts Tagged ‘single payer’
As Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, recently announced in response to the Massachusetts elections: “It’s not time to leave it to any political party to take care of us once we put them in office. 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 health care we need. I know we are the people who can mobilize a massive army to force elected leaders to deliver.”
Tags: AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, single payer, Solidarity Day III
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141253.php
Article Date: 05 Mar 2009 – 6:00 PST
The Obama administration’s plans to hold a “Health Care Summit” that excludes advocates of single-payer healthcare reform has drawn a sharp response from labor leaders around the country.
“President Obama has indicated that his administration is committed to the passage of a new ‘universal’ national health care program for [...]
Tags: Obama, single payer
Tell Obama to let single payer into the White House Summit on healthcare.
Tags: labor unions, Obama, single payer
The following resolution was adopted unanimously by the Delegates’ Meeting of the San Francisco Labor Council on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Tags: HR676, labor unions, single payer, WERC
[Note: Jerry Tucker is a past International Executive Board member of the United Auto Workers' union (UAW). He is also a co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal and is actively involved in organizing a national labor campaign for single-payer healthcare. The interview below is reprinted from Unity & Independence No. 13, February 2009.]
Question: What [...]
Tags: bailout, Obama, single payer
A report on the January meeting of Labor for Single-Payer Healthcare.
Tags: HR676, single payer
An appeal from the Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the 85,000-member California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. She can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
Tags: labor unions, single payer