The Labor Campaign for Single Payer has a singular mission: labor must lead the fight to take healthcare off the bargaining table. Founded in 2009, our affiliates include national, regional, and local unions and labor councils. We work in coalition with other Medicare for All supporters to promote national Medicare for All legislation, protect and expand existing public healthcare programs, and back viable, state-based universal "single payer" healthcare initiatives. We stand in solidarity with workers everywhere who are fighting for health justice.

Medicare for All is a proposal for a publicly funded and administered social benefit that would guarantee everyone the right to health care — regardless of the ability to pay — as a first step in ending one of the major barriers to equity in health. It improves on traditional Medicare by adding coverage for vision, hearing, dental, mental health, reproductive health, and long-term care. Everyone in the U.S. would be included, cradle to grave, head to toe. Beyond the immediate material improvements to workers' lives, Medicare for All would be a tremendous win for the labor movement:

• Corporations could no longer strip their front-line workers’ health insurance as a routine first tactic during strikes
• Collective organizing won't be up against CEOs determined to avoid the cost of union benefit health plans
• Unions could focus their fight on higher wages, better hours and safety conditions, and other benefits, like childcare

The below survey will help us structure our organizing plan, reach out to potential new allies, and identify issues of common concern within the wider labor movement. Please take a few minutes to fill out and submit this survey, and share it with other unions and union activists that you are in touch with, so that we can get the broadest possible range of responses.

In Solidarity!

If this reaches you and you're not yet in a union, we strongly encourage you to reach out to EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee)! EWOC is a joint project founded by the UE and DSA in March 2020 in response to the COVID crisis, using "distributed organizing techniques and a mass volunteer base to provide support and training to non-union workers."