Unions get special treatment – at the expense of Americans who don’t belong to a union:
For most American workers, beginning in 2013, if your health care insurance plan is worth more than $8,900 for an individual and $24,000 for a family, that plan will be hit with a 40% excise tax. While technically the tax falls on the insurer, virtually all economists agree that the cost will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums. Moreover, because the threshold for the tax is indexed to ordinary inflation rather than the higher rate of medical inflation, even if your plan doesn’t get hit today, it may well be taxed in the future.
But that won’t happen to union members. Under an agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, congressional leaders, and union bosses behind closed doors, their policies will be exempt from the tax until 2018. Plans for state and local employees would also be exempted.
There’s even more largess for the unions, do go read the entire piece.
The thing is that at the end of the five year exemption, the union rank and file will have to trade in their Cadillac health care plan on the government Yugo plan. There won’t be anymore Cadillac plans. All that will be left will be what the government will allow you.
As for “renegotiating” their contracts, do you really think that that is going to work in this economy? Obama and his crew have caused so much damage to the economy that I fully expect job losses and plant closings to continue – and actually to accelerate.
The union bosses are selling out the rank and file members. And giving the shaft to the rest of the nation at the same time.
Also, I heard that the Amish in New York are exempt, too.
If leaders do this to/for union members, then I’m forming my own union; also, bingo, I’m Amish as well.