Largest Nurses Union in NY (37,000+ members) endorse Bernie Sanders

[jillan]

http://www.nysna.org/blog/2016/03/22/single-payer-advocates-including-nysna-board-directors-support-bernie-sanders-ny#.Vv62kU8rIdW

SUPPORT BERNIE SANDERS IN NY PRIMARY


March 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]

1. I predict exactly zero Sanders supporters will complain that this is the union

leadership instead of the rank and file making this decision.

For obvious reasons.

[Raster]

3. I am going to bet you that this Union actually consulted their rank and file...

...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]

5. What is the objective standard by which we should judge whether

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]

7. I can tell you the UFCW one does not make a lot of sense.

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]

9. my policy is to respect the decisions of unions*, so long as they don't endorse Republicans

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]

11. Unions have their own internal issues, power struggles, like any organization.

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]

12. there's always internal disagreement--a disturbingly high percentage of union

members vote Republican in some areas.

I think the presumption should be of good faith, but it's rebuttable

[Ash_F]

14. The only reason I can think of, looking back, is that the uppers really thought she was a lock...

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]

8. I wouldn't bet on that, as the linked article only says

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]

4. We can tell the difference. Clinton attracts those that adore the Establishment.

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]

10. +100

[senz]

13. +200 Well said.

[thereismore]

2. Nurses rock, even here in CA they were the only ones to put some fear of god into Arnold. nt

[XemaSab]

6. Looks like a fun crowd!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153913925026690.1073741969.141395226689&type=3&pnref=story

[senz]

17. Wow, beautiful!

Nice description too.

A rousing cry of thousands was heard in the South Bronx today when NYSNA President Judy Sheridan Gonzalez, RN, an ER nurse at Montefiore and a Bronx resident, joined with Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in calling for a single payer, Medicare for All healthcare system. She spoke passionately about the need for healthcare equity in the Bronx that could be achieved when everyone has access to quality care.

[senz]

15. They chose the Single Payer candidate, the one who truly cares.

[CharlotteVale]

16. K&R

[Octafish]

18. Michigan nurse agrees!

A Nurse in Michigan Helps Explain Why Working People Are Behind Bernie Sanders

by Brandon Weber
The Progressive, March 13, 2016

EXCERPT..

“We’ve become a right to work state in recent years, and it’s 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. That’s why he won, I think. Some politicians are all about corporations and the wealthy. He’s firmly about us, he’s 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, ‘I’m 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 we’re seeing it now,” she concluded.

CONTINUED...

http://www.progressive.org/authors/brandon-weber

[AzDar]

19. K & R

[amborin]

20. KNR