Posted on 03/12/2014 10:05:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 is pushing about a dozen of its employers to contribute more money to its health insurance fund to cover rising Obamacare costs.
Currently, employers pay 100% of the premiums. The union, which is in contract negotiations, wants to keep it that way. But the spike Obamacare-related expenses could make it tougher to convince employers to pony up more money.
Union workers picketed outside the Stratosphere over the weekend, ahead of a March 20 vote that would give the union the right to call a strike.
At issue are Obamacare fees and mandates that have greatly increased the health insurance fund's expenses in recent years. What's angering the local, along with many unions nationwide, is that the fund doesn't qualify for federal subsidies to cover low-income workers that for-profit insurers do. The union fund wants these subsidies to help offset the added costs.
Those subsidies, which go directly to insurers, help lower-income Americans purchase insurance on the individual market through state and federal exchanges. But since union plans are considered employer-sponsored plans, there is no federal money to subsidize its members.
So far, White House officials have not made an exception for the unions.
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Kill obamacare 100% and return to the prior system without changes.
There must be more to this. 35 cents per worker, or we strike?
Cause they're like everyone else with jobs (and most without)?
If that hotel wants to fix me up medically, and get me a cheap place to stay at until I make enough money, I’d gladly move across the country. And it’s not like my representation would change much, seeing how Schumer is one of my senators...
Lots of casino jobs in Louisiana too.
“There must be more to this. 35 cents per worker, or we strike?”
Right now the employers are paying $3.96 per worker per hour for pension and health care. At 55,000 workers, it costing the employers $217,800 per hour or $5,227,200 every 24 hours. That works out to $1,907,928,000 per year.
That $.35 per hour increase means that the employers would have to pony up an extra $462,000 per day. I know that this is Vegas but this is some serious money.
Harry Reid better stay holed up at Terrible’s in Searchlight because I don’t think he’s going to be too popular on the Strip.
Talk about the opportunity to do some skimmin’. Wow! And add a little money laundering in there, too.
No union person works 24 hours a day.
55,000 * 8 * 0.35 = 154,000
Unless your 55,000 represents active employees for the given 24 period instead of 55,000 individuals.
Doesn’t matter. They’ll continue voting straight Democrat.
Gee, how did you union punks vote?
uh oh....Obamacare has run afoul of the Mafia now.
You got what you voted for...embrace the suck.
uh oh....Obamacare has run afoul of the Mafia now.
Most casinos are virtually closed shops. You have to go through the union to get a job.
They are also rumored to be the biggest dealer of false papers in the country.
Thanks, SD for the clarification.
The unions pushed for this enslavement and now that they have to experience their desired utopia, they are going to punish their employer! Hey CU Local 226, you can stick that 2,700 page law and the resultig 30,000 pages of regulations (so far) where the sun don’t shine!
The beauty of marxism is that as your utopian policies fail, you can still blame evil corporations or political opponents.....You never have to be responsible for the completely expected failures!
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