2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLargest Nurses Union in NY (37,000+ members) endorse Bernie Sanders
http://www.nysna.org/blog/2016/03/22/single-payer-advocates-including-nysna-board-directors-support-bernie-sanders-ny#.Vv62kU8rIdWMarch 22, 2016 at 8:05 pm
March 22, 2016
SUPPORT FOR A SINGLE PAYER, MEDICARE FOR ALL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM HAS MY VOTE
As unions, public health committees, healthcare professionals and caregivers, political organizations, elected officials and concerned individuals living and working in New York State, we place our highest priority on the achievement of universal healthcare and continued progress in access to quality healthcare for all.
We believe that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, for all who live in the United States.
Towards this paramount goal, essential to the health and safety of our country, we are united in a long-standing effort to achieve a Single Payer, Medicare for All healthcare system that would provide care on the basis of patient need and bring to an end the profiteering of the health insurance industry.
We are resolved that the time for transition to a Single Payer, Medicare for All system is now.
This is one of the critical reasons we are supporting Senator Bernie Sanders, whose principled support for a Single Payer, Medicare for All system is a centerpiece of his campaign platform, in the New York Democratic Presidential Primary on April 19, 2016. Senator Sanders position is most consistent with our own principles and values and he deserves our vote.
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Thank you nurses for ALL you do <3
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)leadership instead of the rank and file making this decision.
For obvious reasons.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...before making their endorsement. And if that's the case, then you are probably right.
However, if it is a case of Union leadership not consulting their rank and file or even endorsing contrary to the wishes of the rank and file, then I would say your statement would probably be incorrect.
Do you have any valid information you'd like to share that suggests this endorsement goes against the wishes of the rank and file?
Or is this just another one of your numerous attempts to shit on a positive Bernie Sanders thread... you know, poison the well for everyone else?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)a union's decision to endorse is legitimate?
Why is this endorsement presumably legitimate, whereas the decisions by the AFT, AFSCME, SEIU national, SEIU 1199, District Council 37, LIUNA, UFCW national are considered illegitimate?
Or is it correct to say that those endorsements--regardless of who is being endorsed-- are all equally legitimate absent solid evidence indicating otherwise?
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)I organize with them and the Fight for 15 has been a platform for years, which Clinton is against. I stood with them outside many a Walmart.
The footsoldiers that I know don't get it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)we're all on the same side. And I trust that they're more in touch with their members, and are more accountable to them, than those of us who don't belong to the unions.
*except for cop unions who want to enable brutality against citizens--screw them
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)I wanted to give some insight on just one that I had real life involvement with. After 3 years of picketing, management's endorsement of the 'maybe $12' candidate was a little baffling.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)members vote Republican in some areas.
I think the presumption should be of good faith, but it's rebuttable
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)And they wanted to be on good terms with her for the next 8 years. That is the only thing that made sense because Fight for 15 was their main and best known platform.
I wonder if they would have made the same decision today.
Tanuki
(14,924 posts)it was the Board of Directors, and not the union itself, that endorsed Sanders. Maybe the OP should edit to reflect that.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I assume you don't care if we get single payer health care. I assume you won't even care when the Republicons gut the ACA and Clinton is "forced" to sign.
We are literally fighting for lives. People incl children die from the lack of decent health care and food and yet you would back the candidate chosen by the Oligarchy to continue this crap they've been forcing on us for decades.
99th_Monkey
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(60,212 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)Nice description too.
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(55,745 posts)A Nurse in Michigan Helps Explain Why Working People Are Behind Bernie Sanders
by Brandon Weber
The Progressive, March 13, 2016
EXCERPT..
Weve become a right to work state in recent years, and its been a real struggle for some of the unions here, Weston observed. When Sanders spoke, he really was speaking to us every day working people. Thats why he won, I think. Some politicians are all about corporations and the wealthy. Hes firmly about us, hes honest, sincere, and down to earth.
Weston also commented that working people in Michigan feel both bullied and ignored by Michigan Governor Snyder over the last six year. Snyder, one of the crop of Republican governors elected in 2010, got help in his first campaign for office from some labor unions in Michigan, partly by promising to not push for so-called right-to-work legislation. However, when his fellow Republicans in the state began to advocate for it (and other states were moving ahead with it), he helped get it written into law. Snyder was also involved in enacting the Emergency Manager legislation giving city bosses the power in financially distressed cities to break contracts, eliminate unions, and renege on pensions for city workers in cities all across Michigan.
But back to Cheryl as we talked about Bernie Sanders more, she kept using the word, genuine.
Clinton never answered questions at the debate. Bernie did, she observed. In fact, by the end of the debate, one of my coworkers who was on the fence and even somewhat in the Hillary camp when we got there said, Im voting for Bernie.
Twenty years ago when my grandfather was still alive, he predicted an uprising by the people the everyday working people of this country. I think were seeing it now, she concluded.
CONTINUED...
http://www.progressive.org/authors/brandon-weber