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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on March 20, 2015, 04:15:47 PM

Title: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: CC27 on March 20, 2015, 04:15:47 PM: Quote
Star Member Omaha Steve (48,352 posts)

City of Omaha, fire union reach tentative 4-year labor deal (look at this ONE important clause!!!)

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/city-of-omaha-fire-union-reach-tentative--year-labor/article_4e90551e-7068-5fea-bc98-9503720db46e.html

Â» Legally married same-sex couples would be eligible for health care coverage for the first time.

When I voted on our Omaha Civilian contract last Fall just before I retired, we added the same language!

Just go away already.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026391875
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: franksolich on March 20, 2015, 04:16:55 PM: Quote
1 replies, 84 views

:-)
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: HawkHogan on March 20, 2015, 04:18:57 PM: Legally married?

Neb. doesn't allow same-sex marriage.

A judge's decree doesn't overrule the people's vote.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: franksolich on March 20, 2015, 04:20:14 PM: Just another instance of where other people, and not the big guy, have to pay for it, this additional coverage.

So naturally my fellow Nebraskan was in favor of it. Why not? It's no dime out of his pocket.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 20, 2015, 04:42:54 PM: It should create great harmony around the firehouse, when a fireman starts describing how his queer boyfriend is getting benefits.

Firemen and cops love that kind of sweet story.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: Gina on March 20, 2015, 04:50:15 PM: Quote
1 replies, 84 views

Really? They love these victories which lead me to believe they don't like him.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: franksolich on March 20, 2015, 05:09:24 PM: Quote from: GOBUCKS on March 20, 2015, 04:42:54 PM
It should create great harmony around the firehouse, when a fireman starts describing how his queer boyfriend is getting benefits.

Firemen and cops love that kind of sweet story.

You know, I imagine the big guy thinks himself "virtuous" for voting to put that in the contract.

He reminds me of people who voted in Nebraska last year to raise the minimum wage; they wanted to show they "cared."

Well, hardly anybody's made minimum wage in Nebraska since Jimmy Carter, and so it didn't make a whole lot of difference.

And the people who voted for it, if the above weren't the case, well, they weren't the ones who'd have pay for it.

It's all so Skippyesque.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: obumazombie on March 21, 2015, 04:20:03 AM: We have to come up with a way for DU replies to the big guy to equal CC replies.
And in the best traditions of DU and libs everywhere, it should be mandated.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on March 21, 2015, 04:38:29 AM: Quote from: franksolich on March 20, 2015, 04:16:55 PM
1 replies, 84 views
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: franksolich on March 21, 2015, 10:06:25 AM: Quote
2 replies, 373 views

:-)
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: Bad Dog on March 21, 2015, 06:21:08 PM: Quote from: obumazombie on March 21, 2015, 04:20:03 AM
We have to come up with a way for DU replies to the big guy to equal CC replies.
And in the best traditions of DU and libs everywhere, it should be mandated.

They are stupid but, they might just catch on and burn a lot of our moles......if we actually had any.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve Death Watch unions and gays
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 21, 2015, 10:07:51 PM: I hope the Big Guy has already arranged for a 2016 absentee ballot.