Join us Monday, September 6th as we celebrate Labor Day and spread the word about continuing the fight for a sustainable, secure, and just healthcare system. We’ll be marching, rallying and picnicking with our brothers & sisters in Wilmington. See flyer for more details.” (linking to attached pdf)

Task Force Meetings are regularly held on the first Thursday of each month.

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, 10:00 A.M.at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

Agenda Items Include:

• Labor Day
• update on SB 810
• projecting next speakers’ training.

Bulletins:

Grassroots Labor Leaders Vow Stronger, Long-Term Campaign to Support "Medicare for All" Approach to Health Care Reform. Link to report from March 5-7 national meeting convened by the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare here

*AFL-CIO ENDORSES SINGLE PAYER MEDICARE FOR ALL*
In a unanimous vote, the AFL-CIO endorsed the Single Payer Medicare for All approach to healthcare reform as the "most cost-effective and equitable way to provide quality healthcare for all." The resolution caps a successful effort led by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer (LCSP), the Labor Caucus for HR 676 (a coalition of national unions) and the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care to put the Federation on record rejecting private insurance and in support of a social insurance model for healthcare reform. Click here to read the Resolution.

Seniors arrested for staging sit-in at Senator Feinstein's office on
anniversary of Medicare. See news coverage here, including an interview
with one of the retirees, Task Force Co-chair Lenny Potash.

Sample Resolutions of Support

L.A. County Federation of Labor submits Resolution for Single-Payer to
AFL-CIO 2009 Convention. Click here to read.

• HR 676
• SB 810

The Labor Task Force for Universal Healthcare, which has been endorsed
by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, is working to educate and
mobilize Union support for the California Universal Health Care Act and to
promote a non-profit single-payer system in California. We encourage all
unions who support Universal Health Care to become affiliates of the Task
Force and to participate in the work of our Task Force. If you or your Executive
Board would like a member of the Task Force to meet with you to discuss
affiliation, or to obtain an affiliation form by mail, please call 213-252-1330 or download the PDF form .

Officers & Staff