Union members support Public Plan Option at Health care Forum

Don Sevre, APWU member at Rep. Ellison's Health care Forum

Labor was well-represented in a packed UCare meeting room for Rep. Keith Ellison's Health Care Forum on Wednesday night. Over two hundred people came together to hear from panelists, including AFSCME Council 5 Executive Director Eliot Seide, on health care reform. Everyone in the room committed to writing a letter to Minnesota's two US Senators urging them to fully support a public plan option.

Constituents committing to write letters to MN senators to support a public plan option.

You can call your US Senators to urge them to fully support a public plan option too, starting next Wednesday, after Senator Franken is sworn in. Here are the numbers:

Senator Amy Klobuchar

202-224-3244

Senator Al Franken

202-224-3121 (Senate switchboard- no # assigned yet for Sen. Franken)

Union members know that to fix the economy, health care needs to be fixed first. John Niedenfuer, IUPAT member, explains this to the group below:

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Read more about how Minnesota's union members are taking health care reform to Washington. SE ALC's own Laura Askelin blogs about her June 25 trip to Capitol Hill on www.bluestem.com