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Does UPS shafting of it's managment healthcare make U accept they want to get us too?
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<blockquote data-quote="kingOFchester" data-source="post: 1190608" data-attributes="member: 11246"><p><strong>Re: Does UPS shafting of it's managment healthcare make U accept they want to get us</strong></p><p></p><p>"Unions’ interest in single-payer does not spring solely from altruistic principles; it’s in their self-interest. Unions are facing crises in bargaining as they try to convince employers to cover health care costs that are <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/09/the-single-best-graph-on-whats-driving-our-deficits/" target="_blank">continuing to rise and showing no signs of slowing</a>. Because health plans are provided by employers rather than the government, employers bear the cost of them—meaning negotiated gains in workers’ health care are necessarily coming at the expense of other contract items like wages. A single-payer system could potentially produce a big wage increase for workers: as companies are freed from astronomically expensive health plans and no longer able to claim poverty as a result of providing insurance, workers could demand their employers pay them the difference."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/172353/labor-campaign-pushes-healthcare-human-right-not-business#" target="_blank">Labor Campaign Pushes Healthcare as a Human Right, Not a Business | The Nation</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kingOFchester, post: 1190608, member: 11246"] [b]Re: Does UPS shafting of it's managment healthcare make U accept they want to get us[/b] "Unions’ interest in single-payer does not spring solely from altruistic principles; it’s in their self-interest. Unions are facing crises in bargaining as they try to convince employers to cover health care costs that are [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/09/the-single-best-graph-on-whats-driving-our-deficits/"]continuing to rise and showing no signs of slowing[/URL]. Because health plans are provided by employers rather than the government, employers bear the cost of them—meaning negotiated gains in workers’ health care are necessarily coming at the expense of other contract items like wages. A single-payer system could potentially produce a big wage increase for workers: as companies are freed from astronomically expensive health plans and no longer able to claim poverty as a result of providing insurance, workers could demand their employers pay them the difference." [url=http://www.thenation.com/article/172353/labor-campaign-pushes-healthcare-human-right-not-business#]Labor Campaign Pushes Healthcare as a Human Right, Not a Business | The Nation[/url] [/QUOTE]
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