I expect the union tactic is now to harass and intimidate school board members in order to keep the contracts.
Their family members, houses, cars etc are targets, too.
That Crashing noise you just heard is another gravy train coming off the tracks!
Good deal. Continue to defund the unions.
Milwaukee is paying $22,000 per teacher per year for WEA Trust health insurance.
When other Wisconsin school districts dropped WEA Trust, they got health insurance for around $15,000.
The Wisconsin Democrat politicians will be asking for foreign donors since their union slushfund is drying up.
“We’re very competitive in pricing and have been and continue to be.”
YOU LIE!
How true. They have been held like hostages in a pitch black room. Now that the lights have been turned on, they will see the true extent of their former captivity.
This is an old game re health insurance and other benefits for government workers and those getting pay checks from so called non profits.
About 15 years ago I took early retirement financed by me and the corporation I worked for. My share of our health insurance was a fair sized monthly nut.
During that first year of not working, in a moment of weakness, I volunteered to be a board member for a so called non profit and ended up on their financial committee.
My wife had served in a similiar position with an east coast version of this non profit a couple of decades before. At that time the non profit did good things in the local community.
The current local version, I was hijacked into was the total opposite. It did nothing for the local community besides hand out brochures asking for money.
Over 80% of their contributions went to paying the local Exec and asst Execs and their underworked over paid office managers, called secretaries in profit organizations. Most of what was left, went to the state and national organization.
They were giving themselves incredible raises each year, had a pension plan they didn’t contribute to and beyond a Cadillac health plan. They were funding this high pay style by using the donations and siphoning off what had been a generous endowment fund established when the non profit did a good job helping the community.
About 3-4 months into this nightmare, their expensive health plan projected costs for the next year more than doubled, and on top of that potential freebie, they wanted 10% raises during a recession when 1-2% were the standard, if any, in the local industries.
I had some good support in the finance committee and on the board. We told them no way on the proposed raises and increased costs of their health plan.
We came up with an option with Kaiser, where they paid $100 per month of the costs and a good sized co pay and a 2% raise for the office managers and a pay freeze for the execs. The board backed us and some sanity came in for a few months, and our suggestions were approved.
Of course I was not asked to stay on the board when my first year was up. The sane board members tried to keep our finance committee, but it was dissolved by the Execs and their token hand puppet board members. Years later, they have moved out of a modern office to a place in the industrial area with about half the employees. Their endowment fund took hits during the Clintoon meltdown, the Pelosi/Reid melt down and of course in our latest and enduring Pelosi/Reid/Obobzo meltdown.
A CPA friend, who served on the financial committe with me, said the local organization, unless it gets some big donations might last until the end of the year.
WEAC insurance is nothing less than a money laundering scheme for unions and Democrats. I have first hand experience with this issue at my local school board. Every year we could not get competitive health insurance bids because the school board always went along with the teacher’s union. The SB used to tell the public that there was nothing that could be done because they already had a contract with the union that prohibited competitive bids.
Now, there will be no cover for the these union loving school board lackeys. The union’s “basic human right” to have a monopoly to sell health insurance to school districts will now be gone. Boo hoo! It’s so unfair.
Hmmmm. Gee. I wonder why?
A little bit of free market competition sounds like just what the insurance company needs
Concidering the overhead factor, its quite possibly that the State of Wisconsin could offer a better deals than unions could.
Another union ripoff