Roofer Union Calls for Repeal of Obama Health Law
 

"A labor union representing roofers is reversing course and calling for repeal of the federal health law, citing concerns the law will raise its cost for insuring members."

Ahh ain't that a bitch.

LMAO !

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/0...ma-health-law/

Our union rep told us that next year as we negotiate the increased cost of health insurance will be our greatest obstacle by far. Apparent family plans have gone up almost 3k due to Obamacare. Personally I think it is just the greedy insurance companies laughing in Obama's face.

If your paying a percentage towards your benefits you might as well not count on a raise for the rest of your career with the increases in insurance costs.

Complete quote...

United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International President Kinsey M. Robinson

“Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office.

But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act’s provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it.

These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer health plans.

For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys those protections.

I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.”

Them dudes need to put down their crack pipes. Seriously.


Carl

Good article:



Carl

Nice Wapo calculator. Check it out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...means-for-you/


Carl

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. :rolleyes:


Carl

Methinks someone has been out in the sun for too long or fell off a roof and landed on their head.:rolleyes:

Sum?

Winning.

There is absolutely no question that many individual and small group health insurance plans will see large rate increases after January 1, 2014. The two drivers for these increases - modified community rating and rate compression - are facts of insurance premium pricing that health insurance carriers are already starting to warn health insurance brokers about.

One small step closer to the single payer option. I for one can't wait to see the vulture capitalists out of healthcare altogether.

Agreed.

How come the conservatives are all upset about a plan originally proposed by the Heritage Foundation?

Thanks, Barbara.

Mine or anyone else's health, well being and future productivity should not be for sale or be determined by fat cats whose eyes are fixed exclusively on quarterly profits and yearly dividends for their shareholders.
As Haldeman explained to Nixon in regards to Kaiser's HMO scheme, "It's about providing less healthcare for the money, not more."

Beats me, Robbin. Maybe it's because there is a black man's face attached to it instead of some smarmy frat boy like Romney's?:rolleyes:

Sum?

Winning.

:)

I wish my employer had nothing at all to do with my healthcare coverage.

Maybe, one of these days, they wont?

Dave

Good question.

Dave

+1 :)

More from the Hill :D

In a new op-ed published in The Hill, UFCW President Joe Hansen homed in on the president’s speech at the 2009 AFL-CIO convention. Obama at the time said union members could keep their insurance under the law, but Hansen writes “that the president’s statement to labor in 2009 is simply not true for millions of workers.”

Republicans have long attacked Obama’s promise that “nothing in this plan will require you to change your coverage or your doctor.” But the fact that unions are now noting it as well is a clear sign that supporters of the law are growing anxious about the law’s implementation.


http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbyi...-on-health-law

Good. Maybe if employer provided healthcare becomes a prohibitively expensive nightmare the unions and employers alike, will finally, at long last, GIVE UP ON IT.

One can only hope.

Dave

One more reason to go with the single payer option.

Agreed. The last thing someone needs is to have their healthcare tied to their job and the occasional pissant vindictive boss.

Fear of an INSURED planet:cool:

Some one call Chuck D., I see a collaboration coming.... ;)

Send in the Blue Helmets to monitor civil rights and elections in all of the Red States?;) Who's Chuck D.?

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKirjxzXM6c

Oh, the guys who got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week.;) I wonder if Pete attended?:D

I must be missing the part of that that is not either spin or scare tactics aiming to create doubt and proving nothing. Bo-ring. http://forums.nyyfans.com/images/smilies/snooze.gif


Carl

The part of what?

(If I've missed something obvious, bear with me. I've had a little too much Angry Orchard............)

Dave

So, which union was it that you couldn't cut it in?:rolleyes:

Just the stuff like citing concerns .


Concerns?

More concernings.

Do I get to take my pick about what he is concerned about? :p

So I guess this means he is going to act on those provisions and protections that he is concerned about.
Oh wait, makes perfect sense now. :rolleyes:

I suggest calling the Betty Ford clinic. :)


Carl

Sounds like he's in management's pocket. It wouldn't be the first time a labor official has been co-opted by the owners.

Agreed, I would be very concerned if I were in that union. ;)


Carl

"Hansen wants the Obama administration to use its regulatory powers to address the matter; a legislative remedy is all but impossible in the divided 113th Congress."' I wonder which party is responsible for that?:rolleyes:

Yeah right :rolleyes:

If you think these are the only unions pissed about this pile of chit coming at them, your clueless.

Awwwww. LMFAO.:p

Hansen................why does that name sound familiar?

Naw, not the same dude. I met the guy who was the head of organizing for the mid-Atlantic region at a strategy session during an organizinig campaign at a local hotel, back in 1990 or so. I think that guys last name was Hanson, or maybe Gordon, but at any rate, he was black so it's not the same guy.

The UFCW offered me a position back then, I now wish I had taken it. I think it would have been a far more interesting and fullfilling career path than what I have been doing.

I had fun tryng to organize that hotel too. We finally succeeded, but it only lasted a few years. Then a new management team declared bankruptcy, fired everyone, renamed the business and reopened non-union or something like that. A year or so later they got caught by the INS hiring illegals, there were also charges of embezzlement, couple of them went to jail, IIRC. (Oh, darn.:p)

Dave

The reason employers are still involved in healthcare is the same reason that they're involved in withholding taxes.

The government can control the employers because, as a rule, they are responsible when it comes to money...otherwise they wouldn't be employers for very long. If everyone got their greedy little paws on ALL of their money, the majority of it would be pissed away and the government wouldn't have the manpower to collect even what was left.

Chas