Rally for health care in Washington, D.C.; Sign up for one day OCSEA bus trip

June 5, 2009 - Organized Labor —including OCSEA members—on Thursday, June 25, will join the Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) coalition for a massive rally and lobby day on Capitol Hill. This mobilization effort comes at a historic time in our fight to Turn Around America as Congress attempts to fix our broken health care system.

Labor’s voice is needed and this mobilization will occur at a peak time to influence the vote, win real cost containment, defend our members’ existing coverage and make sure that no one goes without health care in America.

The draft schedule of the June 25 Capitol Hill event is as follows:

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Ohio AFL-CIO Breakfast Briefing

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Rally @ Upper Senate Park

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - HCAN Ohio Coalition Town Hall Meeting with Ohio Congressional Delegation

4:00 p.m. - Depart for Ohio

All union members are invited and encouraged to participate in this historic action day.

OCSEA has now chartered a bus for the Capitol Hill event. The bus will leave OCSEA, 390 Worthington Road, Westerville, OH 43082 at 10 p.m. on June 24. Please be on time for those of you who have signed up. There are a small amount of seats still available. Contact Gina Ison at 800-266-5615, ext. 4706.

The National AFL-CIO is sponsoring a breakfast briefing and AFSCME International will be sponsoring lunch for the AFSCME affiliates.

Additionally, the Ohio AFL-CIO is chartering a bus which will depart from the Ohio AFL-CIO offices at 395 E. Broad St. in Columbus on the evening of June 24 at 10 p.m. Contact Amanda Sabol at 614-224-8271. Space is limited.

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