Ralphs currently pays more than 90 percent of employee health coverage costs, Doyel said. Workers hired before 2004 pay nothing for health insurance while those hired later pay either $7 a week for single coverage or $15 a week for family coverage.
The companies' proposal would raise that to $9 a week for singles and $23 a week for families. That is much lower than the average cost of health care insurance in California, she said.
But Shimpock said that the union is concerned about the long-term sustainability of the health care fund.
"With the amount they're offering now, the fund would go bankrupt by next September," he said. "We're worried about increased costs, of course. But it doesn't matter if premiums are $2 or $200 if the benefits are eventually eliminated."
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Southern California Grocery Workers Ready To Go On Strike Over Health Care
Link here.
It must be a strike for the sake of a strike, nothing else could explain the logic or the lack of it...
ReplyDeleteDuring the walk-out, perhaps the rank and file could send their leadership to Head Start for Dummies...
I was unaware that some workers pay nothing for health insurance.
ReplyDeleteSomething is wrong with this story. In no way, shape, manner or form will 9$ a week cover 90% of medical ins costs. There has to be more to this story and maybe it will come out.
ReplyDeleteThe company pays 90% of all costs. The rest is made up of co-pays and deductibles. The $9 will help defray some of the company's costs.
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