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Obama To Labor Unions With Multi-Employer Health Plans: Drop Dead
Forbes ^ | 9/14/2013 | Roy Avik

Posted on 09/14/2013 7:26:21 AM PDT by xzins

Well played, Mr. President. Last week, prior to the big AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, President Obama personally spoke to AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, asking him to water down several anti-Obamacare resolutions that union leaders were planning to pass there. Trumka obliged, keeping a call to repeal Obamacare out of the official AFL-CIO resolution on the health law. Then, on Friday evening, after the convention was over, the Obama administration revealed that it would be ignoring unions’ demands to offer Obamacare’s subsidies to their members. As a result, some unions fear they will wither away. “I guarantee you by your next convention four years from now, you won’t meet a quarter of this room,” said Joseph Nigro, president of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union. “We won’t be here.”

Unions were seeking special treatment under Obamacare

This latest development was first reported by Ezra Klein of the Washington Post. Here’s the issue that was at stake. A number of labor unions participate in multi-employer health plans, also known as Taft-Hartley plans. These plans allow unions to organize all the restaurant workers in a particular county, taking advantage of the economies of scale that come from a larger insurance pool.

The problem is that businesses with less than 50 employees now have an incentive to drop health coverage for their employees and let those workers get coverage on the exchanges. It’s a better deal for those workers, and a better deal for their employers. But it’s a blow to the labor unions who organize the plans, because workers no longer need unions to negotiate their health coverage.

...labor leaders wrote, Obamacare would “shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.”

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KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; exemptions; obamacare; unions; zerocare
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1 posted on 09/14/2013 7:26:21 AM PDT by xzins
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But with Republicans in firm control of the House of Representatives, Democrats have no ability to unilaterally rewrite Obamacare in order to please labor leaders. On Wednesday, Terence O’Sullivan, president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, said, “If the Affordable Care Act is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed.”
2 posted on 09/14/2013 7:27:30 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Choke on it, suckas...


3 posted on 09/14/2013 7:29:50 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: xzins

oh that explains it... its the republicans fault they cannot give special rights to unions


4 posted on 09/14/2013 7:30:42 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: xzins

..dumb s***heads, all he wanted was your votes suckers...


5 posted on 09/14/2013 7:31:34 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Someone posted a story the other day that Union MEMBERS (everyday folk like you and me) are some of the most basic God and Country -loving people there are...

So why would they allow their union leaders to align them with the most anti-American communist god-hating homo supporting democrats?

I THINK THIS COULD BE A WATERSHED moment IF WE ASK ALL OF THEM THAT!!!

What does homo-loving and god-hating have to do with union’s protections of workers rights


6 posted on 09/14/2013 7:34:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: xzins

They got a deal. No doubt. It’s all an act.


7 posted on 09/14/2013 7:34:55 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: xzins

Telling communists to “Drop Dead” is a great plan.

Hope they all take the Prophet Obonghole’s message to heart.


8 posted on 09/14/2013 7:35:55 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: xzins

Under that bus y’all! I don’t need you!


9 posted on 09/14/2013 7:37:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: xzins

boo freaking hoo . . . hope they all go the way of that big teachers union in WI did last month. Extinct. Zero Sympathy.


10 posted on 09/14/2013 7:38:54 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Going into Politic Free Zone Momma Grizzly hibernation for a while after this week, maybe forever.)
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To: xzins

The Wisconsin experience, Nation wide???


11 posted on 09/14/2013 7:38:58 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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12 posted on 09/14/2013 7:39:33 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Mr. K

Well, I believe God fearing Republicans shouldn’t waste the moment and just let them flounder forever.

Unions, as all neutral things, can be used for ill or for good, to court bane or to receive blessing. It was putting man first and God anywhere else in the pecking order that got unions and everything else in a mess! Because man is spiritual and can’t stand alone anyhow... that was true in the Garden of Eden and it’s true now. That ole devil snickers in the corner that he’s got um. Until God’s salvation is accepted then watch that devil scurry, though not without spouting the biggest clouds of lies he can. It is a battle scene, it is a challenge scene. But when approached in the courage of God, it ALWAYS is a victory scene.


13 posted on 09/14/2013 7:42:27 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: xzins

bttt


14 posted on 09/14/2013 7:43:55 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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hey ducky pal... our true enemy isn’t even people. it’s the devil.

a little forgiveness towards people, played right here, could equate to a lot of ass kicking towards Satan.


15 posted on 09/14/2013 7:45:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: xzins
Trumka obliged, keeping a call to repeal Obamacare out of the official AFL-CIO resolution on the health law. Then, on Friday evening, after the convention was over, the Obama administration revealed that it would be ignoring unions’ demands to offer Obamacare’s subsidies to their members.

Ha ha.

Union thugs are treated like the slaves their master Obamugabe wants them to become.


16 posted on 09/14/2013 7:49:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“hey ducky pal... our true enemy isn’t even people. it’s the devil.”
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You cannot take the condition of the human heart out of your equation. The Devil can’t make us do anything.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?


17 posted on 09/14/2013 7:49:06 AM PDT by Artcore
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:: Joseph Nigro, president of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union ::

The ^hell^ you say! What’s that feller’s name again? Nigro?


18 posted on 09/14/2013 7:50:10 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Artcore

Well, God can understand it! And did something that Jeremiah didn’t know about yet... died on a cross to save it. That’s the point.

The gospel imbues the deep believer with a new energy. An energy that seeks FIRST to pull the sinner from the grip of sin, and comes on with unusual weapons of love and kindness as well as rebukes that are focused at evil and which do not constitute broadside damnations of people. If the need arises to protect one’s community from deadly danger it can use the sword but that is not the first choice and it is never selfish — a martyrdom is preferred to selfish warfare. Quite a different tune than the world sings.


19 posted on 09/14/2013 7:55:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; TEXOKIE; P-Marlowe
On Wednesday, Terence O’Sullivan, president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, said, “If the Affordable Care Act is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed.”

With some unions saying this is broken, it might make sense to try and win them to the "repeal obabacare" side.

They were in it for the wrong reason, but those that are against it are against it. Besides, Reagan won the blue-collar guys and didn't look back.

Ultimately, Obama hates the middle class and wants to get rid of it, and these union guys are middle class.

Their sons and daughters are being reduced to minimum wage serfs working part-time and they see it.

20 posted on 09/14/2013 7:59:11 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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