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| St. Joe Valley Greens Support National Health Care Action Day. |
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Indiana Green Party February 23, 2004 The St. Joe Valley Greens in South Bend, IN endorse the Jobs with Justice and the St Joseph Valley Project's kickoff event to be held on March 4, 2004 at 4:30 PM. The event will take place at the Uniroyal monument in Battel Park in Mishawaka. The monument is located on the corner of Main and Mishawaka Avenue. Alternate bad weather site: USWA local hall. The hall is located at 125 S. Hill Street, Mishawaka, In 46546-0162. Come hear some interesting speakers discuss the present Health Care system failures and the support for a publicly financed health care system. JWJ are planning to meet congressional candidates at 3pm before the rally at USWA local 1191. Unions and community groups have signed up under the banner of the community-labor coalition Jobs with Justice to participate in the Health Care Action Day. In the Michiana area, it includes Communication Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Steel Workers of America, International Brothers of Electrical Workers, St. Joseph Building Trades. With health care costs spiraling out of control, many employers are demanding that employees pay for some or all of the increases. Employers are also trying to raise co-pays and deductibles to cover the increases and to discourage workers from using their health plans. While employers are trying to cut benefits, massive cuts in both public and private services are affecting the quality of care,especially for those that need it most. It all adds up to working people paying more - in taxes, fees, co-pays and premiums - while getting less care and fewer services. The new Medicare prescription drug benefit recently passed by Congress and promoted by the Bush Administration is only going to make things worse. It encourages companies to cut back or drop retiree benefits, locks in high drug prices and allows for the eventual privatization of Medicare. "If profitable corporations get away with passing costs on to their employees, they have no incentive to begin working for meaningful reforms in the way that health care is paid for and provided," said Joseph Carbone VP St. Joseph Valley Project, and a leader of Jobs With Justice's Health Care Committee. "Workers who stand up to management on this issue are taking a courageous stand for everyone." That's why local unions and grassroots community
organizations are working together to hold a "Health Care Action
Day" on March 4 to protest employer cost shifting and any further
cuts in health services. The day of action is part of a national
mobilization sponsored by Jobs with Justice. |
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