Posted on 01/19/2015 11:52:38 AM PST by WhiskeyX
WASHINGTON--In response to reports that H.R. 30 will be taken up by the House of Representatives, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement:
"A bill (H.R. 30) to be voted on by the House tomorrow (Thursday) would put 6.5 million workers at risk for part-timing by increasing the Affordable Care Act's hours threshold used to determine full-time employment from 30 to 40 hours.
"This proposal would make it easier for bad-actor employers to manipulate the work hours of working women and men, depriving them of both benefits and wages. This bill would give employers a huge incentive to drop a person's hours from 40 to 39 just to kick them off their healthcare plans--and reduce wages while they're at it. According to estimates, about 1 million workers would lose their employer-sponsored healthcare plans.
"Just like the corporations that force taxpayers to pick up the tab for low-wage, no benefits jobs, bad-actor companies are trying to evade their responsibility to pay their fair share by lowering workers' hours and shifting an additional $53 billion in health care costs to American taxpayers.
"Just this morning, we learned that the Affordable Care Act has pushed the rate of uninsured to a record low, below 13 percent, compared to 18 percent two years ago. Why is one of the first bills from the new Congress one that puts healthcare, wages and the ability to raise a family at risk for millions of working men and women?
"I urge members of Congress to vote against this anti-working families bill."
So the government employees union is vocally and actively siding with the Democrats on this issue. I think I know the first “executive action” that a Republican president should take upon assuming office — reverse the Kennedy order and decertify the federal government unions.
Union leadership is all bare faced commie.
Union leadership is all bare faced commie.
And in this case, unattractive lesbian.
When these jackwagons lowered it to 30, my daughter had to juggle work with two 29.5 hour jobs to earn the same she had been getting with one 39.5 hour per week job.
She also lost her limited medical plan, which was actually affordable for a young lady, because it didn't meet ObaMao care mandates.
Henry needs to explain to people like my daughter how working an extra 18 hours per week (plus commuting time) and no insurance is an improvement over a nearly full-time job with limited insurance which met her needs.
Because the SEIU has been granted an exemption by Obamaturd, just like every major union who helped him get re-elected.
The government employee’s union is the AFGE not the SEIU. The SEIU is the Service Employee’s International Union, composed of people in the service industries eg housekeeping, maids, etc.
But obamacare did nothing to incentivize the 29 hour work week.
Sorry, but I’m still waiting for the question and answer session to the following:
1) Why is healthcare the responsibility of the employer?
2) If #1 is positive, why not the same for car insurance, home/renters insurance, etc.?
3) If #1 is negative, why do the employees, if paying for their own insurance, not get the same tax breaks that the employer enjoys?
Yeah, yeah...pipe dream that our press would do actual GRILLING of the elected.
-PJ
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