Betty in Texas at EB posted about how NY unions turned away non-union electrical workers.
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But shame on those who turned away out-of-state non-union electrical companies who came there to help...the NE needs all the help they can get...politics should have stayed out of that decision.
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this was my response:
The unions might've been the main reason that the National Healthcare plan couldn't be completely Single-Pay unless unions were able to keep their own high benefits.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/09/why-organized-labor-supports-government-health-care
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Union support for health care reform does, however, have its limits. In particular, organized labor does not support health care reform for which it might have to help pay.
For example, Senate Democrats considered paying for the health care reform through taxing employer-provided health benefits. Such taxes would have fallen heavily on union members, since both private and public sector unions have negotiated expensive health benefit plans.
When news reports leaked that the Senate was considering such taxes the labor movement moved to quickly derail that idea. A coalition of 30 major unions sent letters to the Senate expressing their "strong opposition to any proposal that would pay for this reform by altering the tax treatment of employer provided health care."[9] Behind the scenes Organized Labor made it clear they opposed and would defeat any health reform that taxed employer health benefits.[10]
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Unions might also be the main reason manufacturing plants and jobs were outsourced to third world countries. From a brief glance at an internet article, R- might want to transfer third world job outsourcing from asia to South America. Just an amateurish conjecture – if the dollar was hyperinflated to pay off national and international debts and changed to the Amero, and trade went to So. America, asian countries stuck with trillions of dollars might be out of luck. Hydraulic fracking and oil from Venezuela could also provide energy resources without having to import from the middle-east. And manufacturing could be pre-dominantly in No. and So. America.
Then the conspiracy theories of the Amero and TTC (Trans-Texas Corridor) might be more than just wild imagination. One possible problem is that hydraulic fracking might cause water pollution and earthquake instability.
John
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But shame on those who turned away out-of-state non-union electrical companies who came there to help...the NE needs all the help they can get...politics should have stayed out of that decision.
end of excerpt
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this was my response:
The unions might've been the main reason that the National Healthcare plan couldn't be completely Single-Pay unless unions were able to keep their own high benefits.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/09/why-organized-labor-supports-government-health-care
excerpt:
Union support for health care reform does, however, have its limits. In particular, organized labor does not support health care reform for which it might have to help pay.
For example, Senate Democrats considered paying for the health care reform through taxing employer-provided health benefits. Such taxes would have fallen heavily on union members, since both private and public sector unions have negotiated expensive health benefit plans.
When news reports leaked that the Senate was considering such taxes the labor movement moved to quickly derail that idea. A coalition of 30 major unions sent letters to the Senate expressing their "strong opposition to any proposal that would pay for this reform by altering the tax treatment of employer provided health care."[9] Behind the scenes Organized Labor made it clear they opposed and would defeat any health reform that taxed employer health benefits.[10]
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Unions might also be the main reason manufacturing plants and jobs were outsourced to third world countries. From a brief glance at an internet article, R- might want to transfer third world job outsourcing from asia to South America. Just an amateurish conjecture – if the dollar was hyperinflated to pay off national and international debts and changed to the Amero, and trade went to So. America, asian countries stuck with trillions of dollars might be out of luck. Hydraulic fracking and oil from Venezuela could also provide energy resources without having to import from the middle-east. And manufacturing could be pre-dominantly in No. and So. America.
Then the conspiracy theories of the Amero and TTC (Trans-Texas Corridor) might be more than just wild imagination. One possible problem is that hydraulic fracking might cause water pollution and earthquake instability.
John