
The White House on Thursday
cut a deal with its closest labor allies to blunt the impact of a new tax on high-cost insurance policies — and blunt their protests against the health reform plan.
Democrats couldn’t eliminate the tax on union members’ high-cost insurance policies altogether but did put off the effective date until 2018, but only for labor agreements and state and local government workers. Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31527.html#ixzz0cgeCVtYl
Wow, That's fair isn't it?
Oh. sure it's fair...to everyone BUT the people who REALLY matter most (as usual).
Gotta just LOVE all that "transparency", don'cha?
I know I sure as hell DON'T.
Union membership would drop by at least 1/3rd if they stopped forcing workers to join against their will.
The UAW and the big old line unions might wither to mere husks if workers had a choice.... did you know that at these shops, few if any of the workers ever even had a chance to vote on unionization?
Here's mine...
http://capitalistsrebellion.blogspot.com