Huge Capitol Rally for Guaranteed Healthcare, AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer

Richard Trumka to Keynote Canadian, British, Australian RNs Describe

National Healthcare Systems

Patients, First Responders to Join Emotional September 11th Rally With a

Plea for Politicians to Focus on Guaranteed Healthcare for all Californians

    OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Nurses
 Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee will convene its national
 convention in Sacramento Monday, greeting hundreds of registered nurses
 from around the U.S. and the world -- and pressing the campaign for
 genuine, guaranteed healthcare reform in California and Washington. The
 conference is at the Sacramento Convention Center.
     Highlighting the proceedings, convention delegates joined by community
 supporters will march to the Capitol Tuesday for a rally to press the case
 with California legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for real reform,
 not just cosmetic changes that reinforce the insurance-based system that
 created the current crisis.
     This convention marks the first since CNA/NNOC's affiliation with the
 AFL-CIO, uniting one of the nation's fastest growing unions, CNA/NNOC, with
 millions of other union members. To mark the occasion, AFL-CIO Secretary
 Treasurer Richard Trumka will deliver the convention keynote address.
 Author and columnist Barbara Ehrenreich will also speak.
     Additionally, RNs from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia will tell
 the real story about single-payer or national healthcare systems in their
 countries, describing the kind of healthcare system that Americans and
 Californians could have with the enactment of HR 676 in Congress or SB 840
 in California.
     Convention highlights. All events at Sacramento Convention Center
 unless noted:
     Monday, September 10
     -- "Digitalizing Care," the latest trends in healthcare restructuring, Don
        DeMoro, Executive Director, Institute for Health and Socio-Economic
        Policy, 10 a.m., Exhibit Hall A
     -- Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer, keynote address, 1 p.m.,
        Exhibit Hall B
 
     Tuesday, September 11
     -- International RN panel on Guaranteed Healthcare, 10 a.m.,
        Exhibit Hall B
     -- March to State Capitol, begins 12 noon at Convention Center
     -- Guaranteed Healthcare Rally, 12:30 p.m., West Steps, Capitol
 
     Wednesday, September 12
     -- Barbara Ehrenreich, keynote address, 9 a.m., Exhibit Hall B
     CNA/NNOC represents 75,000 RNs in all 50 states, and is a leader in the
 national campaign for genuine healthcare reform as embodied in HR 676 in
 Congress, and a pioneer in winning legislative patient protections and
 collective bargaining contracts that have set new standards for nurses
 across the nation.
     For more information about CNA/NNOC, see http://www.calnurses.org.
 
 

SOURCE California Nurses Association; National Nurses Organizing Committee