What it Means to be a CSEA Member...
The CSEA Agenda**
** This Agenda has been copied from the CSEA Local 1000 Web Site
Organizing Workers
CSEA supports the principle that there is dignity in all work and that every worker has the inalienable right to join with co-workers and form a union. We advocate workers' rights, recognize that there is strength in numbers, hold employers accountable, and will commit the necessary resources to organizing and support all AFL-CIO affiliates' organizing efforts.
Advocate Workers' Rights
We are a voice for workers to affect the balance between the employers' expectations and the worker's right to respect and fairness.
We advocate for all workers, leveling the playing field between working people and the corporate interests which control America's wealth, often at the expense of America's workers.
Strength in numbers:
We enhance our strength by organizing the unorganized in the public sector, in areas connected to employers with whom we already have collective bargaining relationships, in industries where CSEA currently has a presence, as well as affiliating independent worker organizations.
Hold employers accountable:
We use our power and influence to ensure that employers who receive taxpayer dollars to provide services are held accountable for the use of those dollars that there is dignity and justice in the workplace for those providing services that quality care is available for everyone, including those unable to care for themselves.
Commit necessary resources to organizing:
We will commit the necessary resources at National, State, Local and Unit levels to fully implement our overall organizing agenda.
Quality, Affordable Health Care for All
CSEA is committed to ensuring that all have access to affordable health care that prescription drug costs are contained that our aging population is cared for that there is adequate funding for health care facilities and that a meaningful patients' bill of rights is enacted. We will form coalitions with other groups to ensure that these issues are addressed.
We stand for a health care system that ensures everyone who needs quality health care receives it.We believe that no one should be denied quality health care because of ability to pay or ailment.
In addition to ensuring that our members have access to quality, affordable health care, we will take up the fight for those who are unable to do so.
Prescription Drug cost containment:
We stand for a system that contains the costs of health care and allows doctors to make health care decisions.
We stand for government regulation of this 120 billion dollar industry. Our current Health Care system is exploding, and the increased costs for both the insured and uninsured must be addressed.In order to contain the escalating costs, we must take action to regulate the cost of drugs nationally as well as on the state level.
We will educate our members and the general public about prescription drug costs and the need for regulation and reform.We will show that people power will prevail over the financial power of drug companies.
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