Code Wack - Why Labor Unions Are Essential to Winning Medicare for All by Progressive Voices Network

This time on Code WACK!

Labor unions have spent decades fighting for strong health benefits for their members. So why would workers want to trade those hard-won benefits for an entirely different system?

In Part 2 of our conversation with longtime labor organizer Mark Dudzic, chair and co-founder of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare, we look at why organized labor could be essential to winning Medicare for All, how grassroots organizing helped move the AFL-CIO toward single payer, and why advocates have to take union members’ concerns seriously rather than dismiss them.

Mark also shares lessons from decades of organizing, including one of my favorites: “Start with what you want, not what you think you can get.”

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