UAW statement on tentative agreement with GM
UAW
October 20, 2005
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker:
“The tentative agreement asks every UAW-GM member, active and retired, to make sacrifices so that everyone can continue to receive excellent health care coverage today and in the future.
“We believe the tentative agreement is an innovative and equitable way to address the health care cost issue at GM.
“However, as we have said many times before, no one union and no one company can solve America’s health care crisis. America is the only advanced nation in the world without some form of national health care – and U.S. businesses and America’s working families are paying a high price for this nation’s uncompetitive public policies. Indeed, GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler are benefiting from Canada’s national health care system.
“The UAW has long advocated single-payer national health insurance as the most cost-effective and fairest way to fix America’s health care crisis.
Today, we are more determined than ever to make single-payer national health insurance a reality.”
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Comment: So are we.