Obamacare's Attack on Unions

[Colorforms]

Now didn't Carney just tell a room full of reporters that companies are not shifting their employees to part time in response to Obamacare?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot...s-cause-nightmare-scenarios/?partner=yahootix

‘Unintended consequences’ causing ‘nightmare scenarios’

The union leaders are concerned that Obamacare’s employer mandate incentivizes smaller companies to shift their workers to part-time status, because employers are not required to provide health coverage to part-time workers. “We have a problem,” they write, and “you need to fix it.”

“The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe,” they continue. “Perverse incentives are causing nightmare scenarios. First, the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this obligation, and many of them are doing so openly. The impact is two-fold: fewer hours means less pay while also losing our current health benefits.”

What surprises me about this is that union leaders are pretty strategic when it comes to employee benefits. It was obvious in 2009 that Obamacare’s employer mandate would incentivize this shift. Why didn’t labor unions fight it back then?

 

[Colorforms]

I have to admit, I am a bit schadenfreude. I kind of like the "Obama administration lying to the unions to get their support and then throwing them under the bus" aspect of this.

 

[as seen on tv]

the disconnect began during the GM bailout, when the Obama administration started hinting that GM's "gold plated" healthcare benefits for union members needed to be more heavily taxed, in order to redistribute the wealth to the have nots.

why the united auto workers didn't pick up on this message is beyond me. poor reading skills? the belief that they could throw campaign money at obama and make it stop?

welcome to modern politics, where white house spokemen make up lies on domestic/economic results, rather than military/foreign policy like under bush.

oh wait - carney also made up a bunch of crap on bengazi. he's full service, i guess.

 

[Colorforms]

the disconnect began during the GM bailout, when the Obama administration started hinting that GM's "gold plated" healthcare benefits for union members needed to be more heavily taxed, in order to redistribute the wealth to the have nots.

why the united auto workers didn't pick up on this message is beyond me. poor reading skills? the belief that they could throw campaign money at obama and make it stop?

welcome to modern politics, where white house spokemen make up lies on domestic/economic results, rather than military/foreign policy like under bush.

oh wait - carney also made up a bunch of crap on bengazi. he's full service, i guess.

What makes me laugh is that all of this was predicted. Obama supporters just mocked and called us idiots, and now their screaming and complaining, yet I will bet they throw their money behind the democrat in the next election.

Nothing like having a captive constituency.

 

[Sickofleft]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you are not supposed to mention this..........

 

[Colorforms]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you are not supposed to mention this..........

Have to take whatever little joys life hands you.

 

[marvin martian]

The unions replaced the KKK as the enforcement arm of the Democrat party in the 1960s. It looks like that relationship may soon be coming to an end as well...

 

[Colorforms]

The unions replaced the KKK as the enforcement arm of the Democrat party in the 1960s. It looks like that relationship may soon be coming to an end as well...

So true, the SEIU even sent out their thugs to quell decent among the opposition during the Obamacare debates. Looks to me like there is Karma at work.

 

[Arkady]

Now didn't Carney just tell a room full of reporters that companies are not shifting their employees to part time in response to Obamacare?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot...s-cause-nightmare-scenarios/?partner=yahootix

Obamacare is just one step in the right direction. More will be needed. If there is an appreciable shift to part-time workers, tweaks in the law can address that.

 

[Colorforms]

Obamacare is just one step in the right direction. More will be needed. If there is an appreciable shift to part-time workers, tweaks in the law can address that.

God I hope so. I would hate to think that businesses would have any ability to fight back while the Obama administration is holding them down and raping them.