AFSCME Health Care Reform Blueprint

Local 154 Helped to Develop National Policy

      We are proud to report that AFSCME Blueprint on Health Care Reform is based on a Resolution presented by Local 154 together with the work of other three Local Unions through the country.

      In preparation for the 2006 AFSCME convention in Chicago, President Fernández drafted a Resolution spelling out our member's needs and concerns regarding health care coverage. The Local 154 Delegates traveling to Chicago decided to endorse President Fernández' document and present it at the Convention. The Delegates Assembly in Chicago combined it with three other documents sharing similar concerns. The result became AFSCME Health Care Reform Blueprint 2006-2008. Such work directs AFSCME International policy on such an important matter.

      The existence of 47 million people without health coverage in the country, the high cost of treatments, medications and health care, plus the continuous threat of higher costs for coverage make necessary to establish long term goals for protecting this important right. Read the details of the policy at:
 

AFSCME Health Care Reform Blueprint
http://www.afscme.org/publications/13722.cfm