Unlikely. UPS is a very conservative company as are a large majority of the employees. Plus this only applies to “management” not the union employees:
“According to Kaiser, UPS told white-collar workers two months ago that 15,000 working spouses eligible for coverage by their own employers would be excluded from the UPS plan in 2014.
UPS expects the move, which applies to non-union U.S. workers only,”
The union employees have a contract which will be renegotiated at some point, and I expect health insurance will be a big part of the negotiations.
Expect to see more of this as companies of all stripes look at the numbers. It will just make economic sense. Employers who have benefited from employees married to spouses working at Cadillac coverage companies will start to shift their plans as well. In the end the path leads to obamacare.
“this only applies to “management” not the union employees”
Come the next contract, it could get interesting.