United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts was the keynote speaker at the most recent State Convention of the Kentucky AFL-CIO. You can hear Roberts’ remarks in support of single payer healthcare at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvwU0rOhFc

(video courtesy of Bill Londrigan, President, Kentucky AFL-CIO).

Meeting in June in Atlantic City, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO Convention passed a resolution, submitted by the NJ State AFL-CIO Retirees Committee, which notes the features of Congressman John Conyers’ single payer health care bill, HR 676.

The adopted resolution, entitled Universal, Single Payer Health Care Coverage, resolves: “that the New Jersey State AFL-CIO supports Single Payer Healthcare Coverage and will lobby all labor endorsed candidates for national office to work for this important issue.”

A copy of the complete resolution is available from Paula Friedman, Chair of the Bergen County Central Trades & Labor Council AFL-CIO Retirees Committee [email protected].