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Class Matters podcast — Medicare Advantage: What Unions & Retirees Need to Know (with Rose Roach and Mark Dudzic of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, and Marianne Pizzitola, NYC Public Retirees)
Class Matters podcast — Medicare Advantage: What Unions & Retirees Need to Know (with Rose Roach and Mark Dudzic of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, and Marianne Pizzitola, NYC Public Retirees)
Download: Runaway Inequality and the Crisis of Healthcare in America
Download: Runaway Inequality and the Crisis of Healthcare in America
toolkit:
toolkit:
Project 2025, Healthcare, and Medicare Privatization:
Project 2025, Healthcare, and Medicare Privatization:
What Unions Need to Know
What Unions Need to Know
On April 2, 2025, we hosted a union briefing at the AFL-CIO National Office in Washington, D.C.: "Project 2025, Healthcare, and Medicare Privatization: What Unions Need to Know."
Rose Roach, our National Coordinator, organized and moderated the event, which was co-hosted by and featured opening remarks from Sara Nelson (International President, Association of Flight Attendants, AFA-CWA), Mark Dimondstein (President, American Postal Workers Union), and Matthew Biggs (International President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers). It also featured an expert panel: Kara Sheehan (Legislative Advocate, National Nurses United), Alex Lawson (Executive Director, Social Security Works), and Ed Weisbart, MD (National Board Secretary, Physicians for a National Health Program). We then had a brief overview of our newest publication — a white paper on Medicare Advantage developed in partnership with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute — and a Q+A. Thank you again to everyone who made time in their schedules to participate and learn more about the perils of increasingly privatized healthcare, and how unions can fight back against it while providing better benefits for their members.
We were fortunate to be joined by leaders from a breadth of unions and organizations: Alliance for Retired Americans; Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 689; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); American Postal Workers Union (APWU); Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA); Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, Employees Division - International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED-IBT); International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE); National Nurses United (NNU); Service Employees International Union (SEIU); International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE); United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); and the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers.
On October 19, 2022, we hosted a town hall — video linked above — featuring dynamic labor leaders from across the country: "It's a Workers' Issue! Abortion Access and the Right to Healthcare." The full range of reproductive healthcare services is a fundamental human right and a core union value. As long as what kind of healthcare working people receive is dependent on what kind of health insurance employers provide, these rights will be in jeopardy. Our fight for Medicare for All is a fight to secure these rights for everyone in America.
This toolkit provides such resources as successful union resolutions shared by the panelists, a bargaining guide prepared by NewsGuild-CWA, information on steps you can take within your union, a special edition of our Labor Healthcare News collecting the many relevant headlines and resources from earlier in the year, and a brief slide presentation with an explainer on the many benefits of single-payer healthcare.
In 1990, the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new rule to require private sector employers to list the cost of future retirement healthcare as a liability on their financial statements. In 2008, these requirements were extended to the public sector by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). These rules have led to devastating attacks on retiree health and welfare benefits and have placed additional strain on public sector budgets. This toolkit will explain the impact of these standards; you will learn how to find this liability in public documents and use it to build support for single payer in your state.
The Madness Continues: Key Takeaways from KFF 2021 Health Benefit Survey
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