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This is how grocery unions (like UFCW) operate. There isn't a lot of debate about health and safety, mostly thanks to government agencies. Most of what the unio
by stephengillie 8y ago
This is how grocery unions (like UFCW) operate. There isn't a lot of debate about health and safety, mostly thanks to government agencies. Most of what the union does is operate the health insurer, and push for pay raises & fewer pay scale steps.
- irrational 8y agoAre unions anti universal healthcare? It seems like they would be since it would be one less thing they could negotiate about.
- egypturnash 8y agoNo longer having to beg the bosses for healthcare would mean they could spend their time and energy pressing the bosses for other concessions.
- InTheArena 8y agoThey were in the Obamacare debate. Unions fought like hell against the Cadillac care provisions because it did in fact limit health care.
- crooked-v 8y agoObamacare is very, very far from universal healthcare. A more accurate comparison would be Medicare For All, which has broad support from a variety of unions.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoWhat drove the costs of the "Cadillac plans" up was that the members worked in injury-prone industries, i.e. fishing, construction &c. The benefits weren't particularly rich. Small wonder that the unions in those industries would come out against provisions that would penalize their members for working in their line of work. There's plenty of things wrong with US unions, but opposition of fishermen to Obamacare isn't amongst them.
- chris11 8y agoI thought a complaint was that Obamacare introduced a tax on health care plans that were unusually generous.
- InTheArena 8y agoWhich unions were asking to be exempted from. Hence my comment.
- TheCoelacanth 8y ago"Cadillac care" provisions are in no way related to universal healthcare. They are a tax on healthcare plans that are more expensive than some threshold, intended to drive down the cost of healthcare plans by steering companies away from the really high-end plans.