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Over 20 million people work in the food system in the U.S., and millions more around the world toil in the food sector. These workers are among the most exploited and poorest in the world.

Workers at a Joliet, Illinois, Caterpillar plant voted down the latest contract offer from the company. Eighty-two percent of the 800 employees rejected the contract citing a lack of raises with rising health care costs.

Rick Brown was a long time friend to Labor United for Universal Healthcare. He was the presenter of our 2010 Honoree award to Dr. Steve Tarzynski. He will be remembered as both a champion for social justice, and a hero for our movement. Rick will be missed, but never forgotten.

On April 10, labor leaders and activists from around the bay area participated in a single payer briefing at the ILWU in San Francisco.

The Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition rallied and marched along the Embarcadero Saturday evening as part of an ongoing contract dispute that affects union members who work with the ferries, buses and Golden Gate Bridge and roads.

Across the country and throughout California, people are being denied healthcare. People have lost their homes, their retirement, even their lives due to healthcare costs and lack of care. Now Californians are saying enough is enough.

The largest union representing Hollywood’s technical workers has begun contract negotiations with the major studios amid concerns that rising healthcare costs could lead to cuts in health and pension benefits for below-the-line crew members.

Since December 18, a couple dozen of retirees of a Century Aluminum plant in Ravenswod, West Virginia, have occupied a median along Route 33. They call their encampment Occupy Century Aluminum and say they’ve taken this action to fight a company that has kicked hundreds of retired employees off of healthcare.

Labor must fight on to healthcare justice!

Our fight to win healthcare as a human right for everyone in America is part of this movement. Our victory depends on this movement becoming powerful enough to defeat the 1% who treat the people’s health as just another source of profit and whose control of the political process stymies any real efforts at reform.