Labor for Single Payer Healthcare

Background and Activity

The Labor Campaign for Single Payer (LCSP), incorporated as Labor for Single Payer Healthcare, was formed by labor activist Mark Dudzic in January 2009 prior to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, to organize labor unions to support a single-payer, Medicare-for-All health care system. The campaign lobbied for the passage of “a resolution endorsing a single-payer ‘social insurance model’ long-term solution to the healthcare crisis at the AFL-CIO‘s 2009 Convention” and “works to promote national single-payer legislation and labor-supported state universal healthcare initiatives.” ³

In 2025, the campaign was identified as one of hundreds of advocacy groups, Democratic Party committees, labor unions, and other organizations supporting and facilitating national “No Kings” protests against the second administration of President Donald Trump. ^{4 5}

Union Affiliates

The Labor Campaign for Single Payer’s union affiliates include the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA‑CWA), the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees/IBT (BMWED/IBT), the California School Employees Association, the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU (CIR‑SEIU), the International Association of Machinists (IAM), the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), National Nurses United (NNU), the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (UE), United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), along with state labor federations including the Maine AFL‑CIO, Massachusetts AFL‑CIO, Oregon AFL‑CIO, South Carolina AFL‑CIO, Texas AFL‑CIO, the Vermont Federation of Labor, the Washington State Labor Council, and Wisconsin AFL‑CIO. ¹

Leadership

Mark Dudzic is a long-time union organizer and left-of-center political activist who is the national coordinator and president of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer. Dudzic previously worked as the national organizer for the now-defunct Labor Party, a short-lived political initiative in the late 1990s and early 2000s that sought to establish a worker-focused alternative to the Democratic Party. A former oil refinery worker and president of Rahway, New Jersey’s Local 149 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers (now part of the United Steelworkers), Dudzic has remained active in labor politics and regularly contributes to left-of-center outlets such as Common Dreams, advocating for Medicare-for-All and broader pro-union policies. He is affiliated with CalTcha, a collective of self-described cultural organizers. ³