|
|
John Kerry visited UFCW
picket lines: Will repeal Bush's tax cut for the wealthy, spend the money to give health coverage for families “When I am
President, I will repeal the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans to
provide uninsured Americans with the health care coverage they and their
families desperately
need." John Kerry, the likely democratic candidate in November's
presidential elections, visited the Southern California picket lines
last Thursday, just a day before a tentative agreement was reached to
end the UFCW supermarket workers' strike. Kerry has been endorsed by
UFCW, as well as by trade union confederation AFL-CIO, as their
candidate for the presidency.
“I honor these hard working men and
women for taking a stand, on behalf of workers everywhere, in the fight
for national health care reform,” Kerry said. “George Bush has
done nothing to help ordinary Americans struggling for health care
coverage, but instead has handed out billions of dollars in tax cuts to
the wealthiest Americans. No worker should ever have to stand on a
picket line in order to provide quality health care for their family.
Millions of
Americans are uninsured “Millions of Americans are uninsured
because they can’t afford it. And the millions who have health
insurance are staggering under the weight of their health care bills,
and their plight has been ignored by this Administration. “When I am President, I will repeal
the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans to provide uninsured Americans
with the health care coverage they and their families desperately need.
My health care plan will extend health care coverage to 96 percent of
Americans and nearly every child in this country by offering them the
very same insurance that the President and Members of Congress give
themselves. My plan also makes health care more affordable so that
Americans who are lucky enough to have coverage are able to keep it.” The 70,000 grocery workers have been on
strike or locked out in almost 900 stores, stretching from central
California to the Mexico border, since the beginning of October. Art Pulaski, Executive
Secretary-Treasurer California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, said,
“It is an honor to have John Kerry standing shoulder to shoulder with
these workers in their fight for affordable healthcare. His is
standing up for America’s workers now and will stand up for them as
President.”
|
