From Labor Notes, 6.22.11, by Don Trementozzi and Steve Early
When union members were encouraged to support the health care bills passed in Massachusetts in 2006 and by Congress last year, they were told there’d be less health care cost-shifting from employers onto employees....
Management continues to set the terms of medical coverage for most workers, unilaterally if non-union, and subject to negotiations if not. Employers remain free to offer unaffordable insurance or to drop coverage, with little penalty.
One test case in the private sector is underway. Contract bargaining at telecom giant Verizon kicked off today in New York, as hundreds of members of the Communications Workers (CWA) rallied outside company headquarters to demand that management pull back from plans to saddle them with the rising cost of health care.
Published August 8th, 2011
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