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9/26/13, "SEIU unionists strike over Obamacare-related cuts," Washington Examiner, Sean Higgens
"Members of the Chicago-based Service Employees International Union Local 1 have gone on strike over recent job cuts by a janitorial company called Professional Maintenance.
The reason for the cuts? The employer says it is because of the
Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This is ironic since SEIU
is a major supporter of the law.
Tyler French, Local 1's organizing director, told Mediatrackers Ohio
the company claimed it had to cut its employees' hours due to Obamacare
mandates.
French did not believe the explanation, though, calling it the
“latest excuse in a long line of many that we’ve seen from corporate
America.”
But others throughout the organized labor movement have warned that
such actions will be a direct consequence of the President Obama's
health care law.
At the AFL-CIO's convention in Los Angeles earlier this month,
Loretta Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of
Teachers, said it was already happening in her union.
"We are seeing employer after employer cut hours so as to avoid the
30-hour definition of a full-time job," Johnson said. The AFL-CIO passed
a resolution demanding either Congress or Obama fix the law to stop it
from hurting union members.
Under Obamacare, once a person works more than 30 hours a week, that
person counts toward the requirement that companies provide insurance if
they have more than 50 employees.
SEIU enthusiastically backed Obamacare when it passed and remains a
booster of the law today.
Earlier this month, it announced that it was
sending nurses, doctors and other health care professionals out to promote the law in 30 cities over the coming months."
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