Longshoremen to Leave AFL-CIO Over ObamaCare Cadillac Tax
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.
The Longshoreman leader said, “President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits.” But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and [President Richard] Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama’s tax on those plans. (Breitbart)
The union also slammed Obama’s immigration plan, with one official saying it is “designed to give [only] highly-paid workers a real path to citizenship.”
As Gomer Pyle would say: “Surprise, surprise”!
“designed to give [only] highly-paid workers a real path to citizenship.”
What about changing “highly-paid” to “highly-productive”? That would make much more sense
Is there really a way to quantify an employee’s productivity?
Sure there is. But the point I was trying to make was that we shouldn’t limit citizenship to immigrants who end up with a high salary. Think of the minimum wage earners who build houses, or those who gratefully work in the fast food industry making $7.25/hr, they fill jobs that we aren’t willing to take. Although, I think many people on our welfare system should be “significantly pushed” to do so, but that’s a story for another day.
We need to let it in the right people, those who will work hard and add value to our society. That’s why we need a market.
Right. A real market with flexibility and mobility would solve that problem. Unfortunately, if we open the border “prices” cannot completely level because of the welfare state, meaning that there will be an incessant flow of immigrants who become better off by coming here. Not until we’ve drained the poor from every country would incentive abate. End the welfare state, then open the border.
Exactly right, although I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
That is a great point about the flow of immigrants. Even with closed borders it will remain attractive for them to come here, many adding to the welfare burden of society. That is dangerous for our nation.
On the other hand, restricting immigration is stunting economic growth and development, burdening productivity, and costing us money.
I don’t think we’ll get out of this one.
Aren’t these the guys who used to make a good living stealing luxury goods off ships or tipping off their mob associated that a shipment was due?
They probably did worse.
Maybe the ILWU will start noticing that elections do have an impact on them.
How about ALL of the unions taking an extra second or two to think about who they support in the next election?
They’ll fall back in line for the next one, just like how so many freedom-lovers end up still voting for the R’s.
It is sad really. With all of the disillusioned voters on both sides it seems like it would be easy to find some common ground to oust the “single party with two faces system”.
“The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO New-ILWU-Logo-550-pxfor going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.”
I think what the ILWU President made clear is that the union wants to keep its “Cadillac” plan and expects the government to force the rest of us to pay for it.
At a time when millions of Americans have no insurance at all, it’s astonishing to see this union’s attitude.