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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1171384" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>My apologies - I connected your argument to an earlier assertion.</p><p></p><p>But I still believe your argument is a classic fallacy. Given the uncertainty of the financial impact of ObamaCare on UPS, it's unlikely UPS would make any drastic changes disenfranchising its professional employee group based on what could ultimately be false assumptions. While it's convenient for people who disagree with Obama & ObamaCare to direct their anger toward it -- and some companies will play off these feelings -- it's more likely that UPS's decision was based on controlling routine costs. Health care costs have been soaring for over 30 years, and UPS's aging workforce has made it more volatile toward increases. In the last contract, UPS was able to curtail some of these costs by moving much of its workforce to a PPO option. This contract, it was hopeful that the IBT would agree to have its membership contribute toward some of the costs, but UPS wasn't successful. Without question, the impending contract was more costly that UPS had hoped it'd be. And, unfortunately, low- and mid- level managerial/professional employee groups are going to be the ones making the scarifies.</p><p></p><p>I concede that you may be right (it's over ObamaCare) -- but I think my argument is more plausible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1171384, member: 43436"] My apologies - I connected your argument to an earlier assertion. But I still believe your argument is a classic fallacy. Given the uncertainty of the financial impact of ObamaCare on UPS, it's unlikely UPS would make any drastic changes disenfranchising its professional employee group based on what could ultimately be false assumptions. While it's convenient for people who disagree with Obama & ObamaCare to direct their anger toward it -- and some companies will play off these feelings -- it's more likely that UPS's decision was based on controlling routine costs. Health care costs have been soaring for over 30 years, and UPS's aging workforce has made it more volatile toward increases. In the last contract, UPS was able to curtail some of these costs by moving much of its workforce to a PPO option. This contract, it was hopeful that the IBT would agree to have its membership contribute toward some of the costs, but UPS wasn't successful. Without question, the impending contract was more costly that UPS had hoped it'd be. And, unfortunately, low- and mid- level managerial/professional employee groups are going to be the ones making the scarifies. I concede that you may be right (it's over ObamaCare) -- but I think my argument is more plausible. [/QUOTE]
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