” At the linked article above, they discuss the letter John Sweeney sent to AFL-CIO members exhorting them to turn out at town hall meetings.
In the letter he also lays out the unions’ non-negotiable demands in the health bill. One of Sweeney’s demands is:
...that the legislation contain “relief for company/union funds providing pre-Medicare retiree coverage...
Freepers, this is blockbuster stuff.
WE will be forced to pay for union health benefits that WE DON’t GET!
Remember when the UAW whined about the “deep concessions” their retirees made so Obama could screw the GM bondholders? Well, here Obama is giving them back...plus a few billion.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310136/posts
I bumped it, quite the story, huh. We end up paying these union stiffs to retire on the likes of thousands per month, a far cry better than the income I’ll be receiving.
It’s frustrating, isn’t it.
You wouldn’t believe the phone time I’ve burned up trying to get someone interested in this. Finally got a rep in my congressman’s office to spend about half an hour on the phone with me. It took about 20 minutes before he said “Oh! I see!”. Said he’d take it up with ...... somebody else. Who knows. I hate thinking $10 Billion of our money hangs on the question of how important was the next phone call he got. He may have shuffled it aside, for all I know.
I did ask him to get back to me, even if others showed no interest in it.