America’s Health Care Crisis
Costs for health insurance are on the rise. Each day Local 888 members see the pressure for higher premiums at the bargaining table. Our employer based health insurance system is crumbling and our health safety net is being dismantled.
Cost Shifting
Companies are looking for ways to get out of paying for employee health
care by shifting costs to workers. One way employers shift costs is
through defined benefit plans. Health Savings Accounts are an example
of a defined benefit plan – and the kind that many politicians
–including President Bush- are talking about.
Immigration
On immigration issues, trade unionists must demand standards that
protect workers regardless of what country they came from or how they
got here. The issue is the same: the exploitation of labor.
Retirement Insecurity
After a life of hard work, people deserve a secure retirement. But some
politicians are talking about privatizing Social Security or
dismantling it completely. Others are stalling needed pension reform
that would protect working families from Enron-style abuses. Americans
need a plan for retirement security, not candidates who leave workers
on their own to save for retirement, and hang Americans out to dry.
