South Florida Union Movement Wins Key Support for Health Care Reform

South Florida Union Movement Wins Key Support for Health Care Reform

by Mike Hall, Jun 5, 2008

Central labor councils around the country this spring launched campaigns to mobilize their members and local lawmakers and politicians around fixing the nation’s broken health care system as part of the union movement’s Labor 2008 political mobilization drive to “Turn Around America.”

  Local union activists at the South Florida AFL-CIO not only are getting out the health care message to working families, they have secured support for the AFL-CIO principles for health care reform from local governments.  

The most recent came when the Miami-Dade County Commission—with more than 40 union members taking part—passed a resolution backing the AFL-CIO’s drive for health care for all.

  The resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Katy Sorenson, puts the nation’s eighth largest county on record for supporting a health care reform plan that:

• Controls rising and irrational costs.
• Provides comprehensive, high-quality health care to all.
• Gives every family the opportunity and responsibility for preventive care.
• Preserves the right to choose and use your own doctor.
• Allows our government to play a strong role in restoring balance to the system—curbing greed and incompetence and ensuring more fairness and efficiency.
• Lowers employer costs and, in return, asks them to pay their fair share, along with government and individuals
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