Unions shocked to discover ObamaCare has 'unintended consequences' by Jongsstraw

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Unions shocked to discover ObamaCare has 'unintended consequences'

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UPDATED: Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:52
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"We're concerned that employers will be increasingly tempted to drop coverage through our plans and let our members fend for themselves on the health exchanges," said David Treanor, director of health care initiatives at the Operating Engineers union.

Workers seeking coverage in the state-based marketplaces, known as exchanges, can qualify for subsidies, determined by a sliding scale based on income. By contrast, the new law does not allow workers in the union plans to receive similar subsidies.

Bob Laszewski, a health care industry consultant, said the real fear among unions is that "a lot of these labor contracts are very expensive and now employers are going to have an alternative to very expensive labor health benefits."

"If the workers can get benefits that are as good through Obamacare in the exchanges, then why do you need the union?" Laszewski said. "In my mind, what the unions are fearing is that workers for the first time can get very good health benefits for a subsidized cost someplace other than the employer."

Bingo.

Unions have always survived by strong-arming employers into wage and benefit that make no economic sense, but are accepted anyway because of the trouble unions will make if they're not, and because labor laws have typically been written to back the unions' play. What ObamaCare does is create a blanket statutory mandate for this economic irrationality, so it's no longer necessary to join a union that will win it on your behalf through collective bargaining.

So yes, good question, why do you need the union? Now the law forces the insanity that used to require union thuggery, and the unions backed the law. Oops!"

Feel sorry for the union dues payers. Their union bosses have f'd them without even buying 'em a drink first.

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