AFSCME Hits D.C. for Health Care Rally

 

C13's bus left the AFSCME Conference Center at 7:30 am.  After arriving in D.C. demonstrators marched around the Ritz-Carlton Hotel (1 full block) 8 times before the rally began.  The nation's biggest insurance companies, the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) were meeting at the luxury hotel to plan strategies to prevent health care reform.  Both AFSCME Intl Pres. McEntee and AFL-CIO Ntl Pres. Richard Trumka spoke at the event and helped present an "arrest warrant" to the "thieves in this building".

 

(L-R) Randy Lash L2162 Dauphin Co. Trades & Labor; Joanne Crawford L2545 Revenue; Patsy Cowan L2545 Revenue; and Betty Joyner L2518 Agriculture at the Health Care Rally.  "Crime Scene" tape around the Ritz-Carlton read "It's a Crime to Deny Our Care"

 

 

 

 

Aldine Owens L2421 Millersville

University (L) with AFL-CIO Vice-Pres.

Arlene Holt-Baker.