Nevada AFL-CIO condemns Obamacare
Source: Las Vegas Sun
The Nevada State AFL-CIO passed a resolution slamming Obamacare today.
The union claims certain provisions of the law would destroy union health plans, making the usual staunch allies of President Barack Obama just the latest Las Vegas union to publicly condemn the health care law.
Unions had originally backed the law but have grown increasingly skeptical of what union leaders like D Taylor, head of UNITE Here and former head of Las Vegas’ Culinary Local 226, called the law’s “perverse incentives” that potentially could shutter union Taft-Hartley health plans and leave workers without good health insurance.
Union leaders are concerned with a provision of the law that call for the provision of health insurance for people who work more than 30-hours per week, meaning workers’ hours could be cut so that employers don’t have to provide health insurance.
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/21/nevada-afl-cio-condemns-obamacare/
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They never really loved it in the first place!
I don't know why those union thugs are worried, we'll fix it later. Harry said so.
If only someone could've predicted this...
