Obama To Labor Unions With Multi-Employer Health Plans: Drop Dead

[TemplarKormac]

Well played, Mr. President. Last week, prior to the big AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, President Obama personally spoke to AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, asking him to water down several anti-Obamacare resolutions that union leaders were planning to pass there. Trumka obliged, keeping calls to repeal Obamacare out of the official AFL-CIO resolution on the health law. Then, on Friday evening, after the convention was over, the Obama administration revealed that it would ignore unions’ demands to subsidize their members using Obamacare. As a result, some unions fear that they will wither away. “I guarantee you by your next convention four years from now, you won’t meet a quarter of this room,” said Joseph Nigro, president of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union. “We won’t be here.”

Obama To Labor Unions With Multi-Employer Health Plans: Drop Dead - Forbes

 

[deltex1]

drop dead.....for now.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The unions, just like Congress, just like you and me: we are all in ACA.

 

[Wolfsister77]

He's not telling them to drop dead. They play by the same rules as everyone else has to.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yup.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Nothing like lying to your base, then screwing them over.

That is the Democrats showing everyone else how they build a party.

And some Republicans want to emulate that kind crap? No thanks.

 

[Sherry]

Is there anyone left who Obama hasn't disappointed??

 

[Sunshine]

Is there anyone left who Obama hasn't disappointed??

He has not disappointed me because I had no expectations of him from the git go.

 

[TemplarKormac]

He's not telling them to drop dead. They play by the same rules as everyone else has to.

"Everyone else" implies that our President, Senators, and Congressmen are subject to these same rules. But on the other hand, maybe these unions should have been more thoughtful in who they elected, or perhaps read the language of the ACA before rushing headlong over a cliff like a herd of lemmings.

 

[Sunshine]

He's not telling them to drop dead. They play by the same rules as everyone else has to.

"Everyone else" implies that our President, Senators, and Congressmen are subject to these same rules. But on the other hand, maybe these unions should have been more thoughtful in who they elected, or perhaps read the language of the ACA before rushing headlong over a cliff like a herd of lemmings.

Yes, unions are overwhelmingly democratic in party affiliation. Even professional organizations like the ANA, NEA, etc. are as well. No one understood the ACA which is how it got implemented.

 

[JakeStarkey]

And businesses as well are overwhelmingly Republican in party affiliation, so what.

Everybody is in the system.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Businesses being Republican are of little consequence when the ACA is crippling or putting lots of businesses out of business all over the country. It's been said that we must "beat the system" given all the amendments and delays of the ACA, I'd say the system is beating itself.

 

[Wolfsister77]

Unions are only about 12% or so of the workforce so they really don't have the power to get someone elected by themselves. It isn't about who was elected, it is about everyone playing by the same rules.

 

[Joe Steel]

Unions aren't doing themselves any good by complaining about PPACA. Many union members don't have health care benefits under the current system. PPACA will allow them to get the coverage their unions won't give them.