Imagine a giant, multi-national corporation announces that it is preparing reduce benefits it is currently paying to its unionize retirees.
Can you just imagine the Proglodyte response?
Why, there'd be virtual riots in cyberspace.
There'd be demands that the NLRB get involved.
There'd be demands that the DOJ frog march the CEO to the guillotine on the way to delivering him to The Hague.
There'd be demands for a general strike.
There'd be screams of, "AUSTERITY!"
Or would there?
Hoyt (21,107 posts)
1. Not saying I support [the company's] action, but the truth is, the sooner we decouple health coverage
from employment, the sooner we'll get some unified national health plan.
EEO (1,477 posts)
4. Agreed.
Though [the company] was not exactly on the brink of bankruptcy due to its retirees and their healthcare.
PoliticAverse (13,070 posts)
6. Indeed once a corporation goes into bankruptcy all promises are on the table.
When you accept future promises from a company you are in effect betting that the
company will continue its existence in its current form for the future. A change in
ownership or even management may result in those promises not being honored.
Hm-m-m-m...
They seem to be taking it with a remarkable degree of placid acceptance.
That's so unlike them.
I wonder what's up?
Let's check out the OP for some clues, shall we?
Omaha Steve (55,181 posts)
Kraft Heinz shifts retirees to health marketplaces in cost-cutting efforts
Source: Omaha World Herald
Kraft Heinz Co., which counts Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as its largest shareholder, is pushing some of its retirees to health marketplaces as the company cuts expenses.
The foodmaker is eliminating some benefits as it seeks to provide care in “the most cost-effective manner,†according to a letter to retirees and their spouses dated Sept. 1.
Snip: Doug Leikness, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Madison, Wisconsin, where Kraft Heinz has an Oscar Mayer plant, said the change will hurt workers and reduce company costs.
Kraft Heinz is also trying to shift some retirees away from pension plans under a voluntary program. Mullen said former Kraft employees who have a “future estimated benefit value†of under $2,500 a month at age 65, and have not started receiving the money, can “receive it as an immediate lump-sum payment or begin receiving annuity payments right away.â€
FULL story at link.
The Omaha World-Herald Co. is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/money/kraft-heinz-shifts-retirees-to-health-marketplaces-in-cost-cutting/article_2d5e0147-d653-58c0-be20-7cd4f23b9b2a.html
Now, imagine if the company had been Wal-Mart or Rupert Murdoch's company or Koch Industries.
Believe nothing a Proglodyte tells you about "fairness." They will lay down and play the corporatist whore so long as the corporation is part of the Establishment effort to control you.
A few of the hardcore commies tried to protest in the thread but they were ignored.
Nobody wants to upset ol' Warren lest the checks and sound bites stop coming or vilify John Kerry's wife in case Hillary flames out and they need Plan
B C D E ... Q.
And no one piped up say, "The marketplace? That's ObamaCare. That's not a loss; that's a net gain!"
Their silence is tacit admission the ObamaCoup exchange is a step down.
Whores.
That's all they really are, self-serving whores.
And not the good kind...
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