Posted on 09/14/2015 2:09:48 AM PDT by equaviator
Here we go again...
“Both have been vocal on not only restructuring pay but also dealing with how the auto makers buy health care for their workers. The UAW is looking to restructure the way the Detroit car makers purchase health care in an effort to generate savings and help members avoid higher out-of-pocket costs.”
Unions are exempt from Obamacare.
Heck no, their plans are so good they will fall under the "Cadillac Tax" and WJR (and others) is reporting a "cooperative" medical plan for GM, F-C, & Ford to cut cost, or so they say. I wonder if it their attempt to put a smiley face on what Obamacare will do to their workers in 2016...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/us-autos-uaw-idUSKCN0R32J720150903
If memory serves, Michigan is now a right to work state. That didn’t affect current contracts, but would affect this one.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/08/19/cadillac-health-insurance-tax/32029209/
So they are targeting the least profitable company
What if Fiat says “Vaffanculo” and moves all of it’s production to Italy and Bulgaria?
If one of the US big Three goes down because of the UAW that might get the others to break the union
I think the Chrysler Dodge brand is in pretty good shape. It isn’t structured to generate the profits of GM or Ford. I don’t think it ever was. It’s pretty streamlined IIRC.
Hahahaha... wait a minute. Aren’t the UAW part owners of Chrysler? They’re threatening to strink against themselves?
Walker, has come forth and said that all federal unions need to be disbanded. I agree with that, and I hope Trump does too.
Obama’s HHS will give them a waiver as usual. Then another bailout for their pension fund.
Obamacare is only for us taxpaying peons.
Mr. niteowl77
Specifically, they want to eliminate a controversial two-tier wage system that pays newer factory hires about $9 an hour less than veteran employees for doing the same assembly-line work. Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne has publicly called for ending the pay structure... Bargainers at GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler have said health-care costs have been rising at an unsustainable rate and could climb even higher with a new federal tax going into effect in 2018... Marchionne is a formidable negotiator and has in the past gotten directly involved in talks, sitting right at the bargaining table. Often, chief executives leave it up to the company's bargainers to work out details. Mr. Marchionne has yet to change his current plans, which has him appearing at the automotive show in Frankfurt next week.It'll be interesting if the "pattern contract" is arrived at with Fiat Chrysler.
“Don’t touch my Dart”
Don’t worry, I won’t!
WJR also reports that contract extensions are possible.
“Aren’t the UAW part owners of Chrysler?”
Maybe some of their hourly workers in the plants believe that to be the case and that the UAW owns the majority of F-C.
Union members last year voted to raise membership dues to expand its $600 million strike fund
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Shrinking. I remember when the fund was a billion.
Good!
I want to see it down to nine dollars.
“The UAW is looking to restructure the way the Detroit car makers purchase health care in an effort to generate savings and help members avoid higher out-of-pocket costs. “
Good luck with that and the Obamacare tax coming down the road.
This is simple, and ironically Obama might give them a waiver or ask Congress to do it.
And that is make Direct Primary Care Services payable with Flexible Spending Account and or Health Savings Account Dollars of which they cannot do.
That one change alone would negate Obamacare...
Notice the Direct Primary Care Act S 1989 on the right hand of the website...
Now that hurts!
Really, it’s a nice car, and it goes VROOOM VROOOM!!!
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