AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single-Payer

[joeycola]

Source: calnurses.org



http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/september/afl-cio-convention-endorses-single-payer.html


For Immediate Release
September 15, 2009



AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single-Payer

Unanimous Vote for Medicare-for-All Reform

PITTSBURGH – In a historic vote that adds the nation’s leading voice of American workers to a broad national campaign, the AFL-CIO voted unanimously at its national convention here today to endorse the enactment of single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans.

The resolution was sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and the Alameda County (California) Central Labor Council.

In urging its support, CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro, an AFL-CIO National Vice-President, noted the recent death of Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life union organizer from the film Norma Rae who died last week after a long battle with cancer, exacerbated by her own three-year fight with her insurance company.

“No one should spend the last days of their life fighting with their insurance company,” said DeMoro. “We should not make choices of who gets healthcare based on their ethnicity, gender, or economic status. But I am addressing the labor movement, not Wall Street. And we all know what is the right thing – the moral thing – single-payer healthcare.”

Read more: http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/september/afl-cio-convention-endorses-single-payer.html

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BRAVO:)

[Bozita]

1. *standing O*

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Good for them

I wish I could hope we'd actually get single payer, but I know we won't.

[kestrel91316]

3. We will. Perhaps not in MY lifetime. but we will.

[earcandle]

4. We NEED Unions to represent those of us without wealth.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. Here Here.

:toast:

[Proletariatprincess]

13. so true....

The decline of the USA is the direct result of the decline of the Labor Movement in this country. Every aspect of the lives of working families (and that is almost everyone in the nation) is impacted by policies made in Congress that have not, in the last 3 decades, included the voice of the workers thru their democratically elected Labor Organizations.
The USA will recover it's economic and moral clout in the world only when and if the US Labor movement recovers its own.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Good job! Actually doing the right thing is so refreshing.

[2Design]

7. People just don't understand they have vacation, holidays, and work weeks because of unions n/t

[salguine]

8. While I applaud this step, it will mean nothing if unions continue to fall into line

and support the same people who keep fucking them over year after year after year. If union really want to count for something, they should withdraw their support for one election cycle to whoever keeps taking their votes and then turning his back on them.

[joeycola]

9. I agree.

[Iowa]

10. I agree. Without real consequences for sell-outs, such resolutions are meaningless.

[unkachuck]

11. K&R....n/t

[mvd]

12. K&R, very nice!

:applause:

[New Dawn]

14. K&R!!!

[defendandprotect]

15. k i c k

[pleah]

16. K& R

[joeycola]

17. and k. for the morning crew.

[Wednesdays]

18. I'm all for single payer, but right at this moment, it's...

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