Health Care
Health care is a basic human right. America’s labor movement has worked for more than a century for guaranteed high-quality health care for everyone. The Affordable Care Act is a historic milestone on this journey, but we still have a long way to go.
America must continue moving forward toward a more equitable and cost-effective health care system. Moving forward means working with employers to demand health care payment and delivery reforms to control costs, allowing people of all ages to buy into the equivalent of Medicare through a public plan option and allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. Of course, the most cost-effective and equitable way to provide quality health care is through the social insurance model (“Medicare for All”), as other industrialized countries have shown.
The worst thing we could do is move backward by repealing the Affordable Care Act or its key provisions; privatizing Medicare or turning it into a voucher program; raising the Medicare eligibility age; increasing Medicare co-pays and deductibles or otherwise cutting Medicare benefits; or taxing employment-based health care benefits.
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As thousands of UPS Teamsters practice picket, rally, and mobilize around the country, UPS bowed this week to the overwhelming show of Teamster unity and reached out to the union to resume negotiations.
The decision to go on strike is never an easy one, but working people deserve fair wages & benefits, as well as dignity & respect on the job.
Please see below for how you can show your support for workers currently on strike around NYC.
The decision to go on strike is never an easy one, but working people deserve fair wages & benefits, as well as dignity & respect on the job.
Please see below for how you can show your support for workers currently on strike around NYC.
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Workers at the Children’s Law Center, members of A Better CLC/UAW Local 2325, have been negotiating their first contract for nearly two and a half years. During this time, CLC management has repeatedly engaged in bad faith bargaining.
The workers at REI’s very first unionized store need your support!