{"id":7368,"date":"2026-06-09T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7368"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:49:01","slug":"labor-single-payer-state-wide-conference","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/labor-single-payer-state-wide-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor &#038; Single Payer &#8211; The Fight for Single Payer Now! &#8211; State Wide Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At: 518 Valencia St., SF, CA<\/p>\n<p>The chair of California legislature Robert Rivas in April tabled even a hearing and discussion on the Single Payer bill introduced with the support of NNU CNA. This attack by the Democrats in even having a discussion about single payer is part of a long history of how the insurance, hospital and pharmacy industry have controlled both the State government and national government. <span style=\"font-size: large;\">Milions of people in California and throughout the country are losing their healthcare with cuts in Medicaid and the ending <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">of subsidies of ACA. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The closure of rural hospitals, the growing collapse of public healthcare with massive budget cuts is combined with union busting at Kaiser and other HMOs. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Kaiser just spent over $1 billion to break the strike of 30,000 heatlhcare workers in Northern California. The introduction of AI to eliminate nurses and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">psychiatric social workers and their replacement with chat boxes is a threat to all the pationets and people of California.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This organizing conference will include presentatons on the campaign for single payer in unions throughout the state and the struggle of healthcare workers <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">and the people of the state to build a movement to overcome the control of California politicians and the billionaire control of our healthcare system.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">nitial Speakers:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong>Cheryl Thornton &#8211; <\/strong>SEIU 1021 SF Chapter Chair Community Healthcare<br \/>\n<strong>Ana Malinow &#8211; <\/strong>Former President PNHP, Single Payer National Campaign<br \/>\n<strong>Agusto Guerra &#8211;<\/strong> SEIU 1021 SF Mental Healthcare Chapter Chair<br \/>\n<strong>Lisa Milos &#8211; <\/strong>UPTE CWA Retired UCSF Interpeter<br \/>\n<strong>Brenda Barros &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chair<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Endorsed by: WorkWeek, <\/span>California United For Single Payer<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statewide meeting will look at the struggle for single payer and the need for a united front of all unions and working people to build a workers movement for single payer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7593,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4],"class_list":["post-7368","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","cat_forum-reading"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7368\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}