Friday, July 26, 2013

One Group I Don't Feel Sorry For

ObamaCare is going to destroy many people and organizations and also union benefits.  For most people who are affected by ObamaCare, I feel sorry for because they were duped by the President on down to Senile/Liar/Coward Harry Reid and Felony Thief Dina Titus down to their supporters including the labor unions.
The one group of people I don't feel sorry for are the culinary union and their members- many of whom are illegal immigrants and they support union thugs who don't care about Las vegas, it's tourist industry or leaders of the community.  The Culinary union and it's leaders are among the most vile people here in the Las Vegas Valley.
From the Las Vegas Sun: National union leaders criticized President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in a scathing letter sent earlier this month to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
The signatories lambasted the law for “perverse incentives” that are already creating “nightmare scenarios” that could “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour workweek.”
Largely seen as allies to the Democratic president, union leaders from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and UNITE Here went public with concerns that could affect all workers, not just unionized employees.
Employee unions often partner with employers to provide health insurance, and the union leaders are concerned that provisions of Obamacare could inadvertently lead to employers cutting hours for workers, dropping insurance coverage and bankrupting unions’ self-insured health plans.  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jul/26/unite-here-boss-d-taylor-lambastes-obamacare/
First, it wasn't inadvertent that ObamaCare would cut employee's ours and destroying union insurance plans.  We conservatives knew this before hand and yelled it out before the plan was passed, but these union leaders were blinded by their faith in Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Titus and Shelly Berkley.
The Sun interviewed Union thug, D. Taylor, who looks awfully like Colin Mochrie of "Whose Line Is It Anyways" and the following questions were asked and answered:
You mentioned unintended consequences and perverse incentives, including the 30-hour-a-week threshold for providing health insurance under the law. Aren’t union members protected from incentives to cut hours and benefits because unions have collective bargaining abilities?
Our interest isn’t just about union members. For example, on the front page of the New York Times yesterday it talked about these adjunct professors in Virginia that are all being cut down to 29 hours. Well, what does that do? That means that fewer people have employer-based health insurance. That puts much more strain on government. That’s a problem.
Just remember when you cut people less than 30 hours (per week, the threshold at which employers must provide health insurance), that means they make less money for their discretionary spend and they lose their benefits. It’s a double whammy.
How concerned are you that employers will seek to abandon the Taft Hartley (union health insurance) plans and relegate workers to seek health insurance coverage in state-based health insurance exchanges? Have employers brought up this topic in contract negotiations?
Obamacare right now has a perverse incentive to do exactly that. I am very concerned not just in Las Vegas but throughout the United States because I’ve been to, I’ve seen many employers start talking about: “Well, why don’t we just pay $2,000 (penalty fee per employee assessed to employers for not providing health insurance) and get out of it and the government will take care of you?” Well, that’s not what Obamacare was supposed to do, but you hear that more and more.
In coming out with this letter in a very public way, that seems to be the culmination of some frustrations that have been going on for awhile now. Do you see this as leverage to actually get something done? Where do you see this going?
There’s no question we are very upset at the incredible unequal treatment. The employers just get their mandate moved back a year. The Catholic Church gets the law changed. Under the law, it says you’re supposed to get insurance after 90 days. Then they said “Oh, no, we’re going to make it one year.” They have accommodated and made exceptions for everybody except for non-profit, self-insured health plans.
HAHAA, couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
The unions have been married to the Democrats for many, many years and how is their blind loyalty being pack?  By the unions getting screwed by the administration because the administration knows the unions will always have their back.  They know the union will always favor the Democrats over the Republicans.
The unions were warned before the law was passed that what they are complaining about would happen but they decided to blindly follow the president and his ilk.
Too bad, to sad, unions.  Maybe next time you will listen.

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