Do the striking workers at GE have a room temp IQ?

[miles]

Two key unions at GE, representing 17,500 workers, called the strike to protest a $200 to $400 increase in medical co-payments that took effect on Jan.

Let's see, that's an average $4 to $8 increase per week. How much money will these people lose while they are on strike? Am I missing something here?

GE spokesman Gary Sheffer said an average union employee pays $8.71 per week for family health care insurance coverage. GE pays about 80 percent of its workers' total health care costs.

These union employees pay $36 a month for family coverage, or 20% of the actual premium cost. Most people pay more than that for single coverage.


These people don't have a clue what's going on in the real world. Next time you hear someone talk about corporate greed, remember these bozos.

 

[Guest]

I heard the average worker makes $50-60,000/year and they are bitching about a minor increase in health insurance. Fuck them, some people dont have it so easy.

 

[plasticman33]

Union's are a far step away from reality. I knew of a group, a few years ago, that went out on strike for 4 weeks then settled for a nickel an hour increase. H-E-L-L-O!!!

 

[nimbus9]

No matter what something has to be done about the cost of health care. I am self employed and had to drop mine. I just can't' afford it anymore tax credit or not. health care cost keep going up way more than anything else every year.
I hate that fucking Hillery Clintion thinking she could put a National Health Plan together. Blew it for everyone for the next twenty years at least.

 

[miles]

I heard the average worker makes $50-60,000/year and they are bitching about a minor increase in health insurance. Fuck them, some people dont have it so easy.

If you have a source on that I'd love to see it.

You know, it's inevitable that if some of them make 60K and have a spouse making $40K....that makes them evil rich people (making $100K) by the Democrats' definition. So typical of those rich people - pissing and moaning over a few hundred bucks. It just ain't right, I tell ya.

 

[The Heretic]

Am I missing something here?

But it's the principle of the thing.

LC, was telling me about some of the lifers at Boeing - how they wanted a strike so they could take some vacation. Don't ask me to try to make sense out of people who think like that.

 

[Tungwagger]

Union's are a far step away from reality. I knew of a group, a few years ago, that went out on strike for 4 weeks then settled for a nickel an hour increase. H-E-L-L-O!!!

I remember hearing Boeing in Seattle had a strike, 25 cents an hour was offered, the Union wanted a dollar and hot soup in the vending machines. The company said 50 cents AND hot soup. The Union said Fuck off, we're striking, they wound up settling after 3 months for 25 cents and hot soup..

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

WTF is REDWAVE? The laboring masses are being oppressed here.

 

[HeavyStick]

WTF is REDWAVE? The laboring masses are being oppressed here.

WTF is REDWAVE?

Surely you jest. Redwave is an unemployed lawyer in Las Vegas. Supposedly he's "self employed". The only one getting supoprepressed is him, by his own Capitalistic hand.

 

[modest mouse]

One would think workers mgiht see GE as making a minor change in a crappy economy. So the workers pay a bit more for health insurance, they still have it much better than 3/4s of US workers in such regard. There seem to be far too many cases of the Union leaders looking to do 'something', 'anything' rather than quietly work for their constituents.

 

[teddybear4play]

One would think workers mgiht see GE as making a minor change in a crappy economy. So the workers pay a bit more for health insurance, they still have it much better than 3/4s of US workers in such regard. There seem to be far too many cases of the Union leaders looking to do 'something', 'anything' rather than quietly work for their constituents.

Why should they? Morons like REDWAVE will support them all the way.

TB4p

 

[Guest]

I pay more in a week than they do in a month, with worse coverage.

 

[Ishmael]

Re: Re: Do the striking workers at GE have a room temp IQ?

But it's the principle of the thing.

LC, was telling me about some of the lifers at Boeing - how they wanted a strike so they could take some vacation. Don't ask me to try to make sense out of people who think like that.

More truth than fiction there. At Los Alamos the facility maintenance was contracte out to the Zia Corporation. The took care of everything, including changing the light bulbs. All union labor.

Long about the end of September, every year without fail, teh Re-Lampers (Yes that was their official job title) would stop changing the burned out bulbs. But they'd lurk around the area's that had called in for service. Eventually some poor scientist would get pissed off and change his own bulb. And get caught doing it.

Wallah, instant strike. How dare that PhD deprive those poor guys of their livlihood?

And everyone had time off for deer and elk season.

Funny the way some things work.

Ishmael

 

[Guest]

Wow. More than two words from miles.

I think I'm gonna have a wank.