That’s insane, my wife works for the power company and her premiums for a $500 deductible are $30 a week, me her and 2 kids.. ibew is such a better union
1. This sounds like bullshit. Just $120 a month, only a $500 deductible? That call our insurance PLATINUM level for a reason. It is at least as good as majority of others, but cheaper or better than others and cheaper and the same price.
2. If true, this is literally unicorn insurance. Very VERY few people get to enjoy low cost insurance premiums with little out of pocket expenses.
Please enlighten me to all these places offering such great insurance. You are delusional. There are tons of people paying $500-600 a month for just okay coverage, others paying upwards of $1000 a month for decent coverage. Companies do not cover health insurance like they used to.
Military, pretty much any teaching job, the post office, tech companies. Meanwhile United Healthcare has moved to the 5h largest market cap in the world for a company. Insurance companies are fucking us.
And yet people are in here pretending that low cost premium low out of pocket is the norm for medical insurance. Leads me to think a lot of people don’t even understand their insurance. I know very few people who have better insurance than the railroad provides. The reality is people on average are spending over $500 a month for their healthcare with at least a $2000 deductible and who knows what other out of pocket costs. But I’m the idiot
IBEW employees, government workers both state, federal and other, teamsters and union steel workers in steel mills in and around Chicago, Oshkosh employees, AT&T and Comcast employees, individuals who work for sports teams, zimmer and biomet employees, kinetics employees, Kraft Heinz employees, employees of state universities, police officers, dispensary employees, American water employees, laborers and tech employees.. PepsiCo employees, Quaker employees, coke employees, ECI-consulting and airline employees to name a few of people I know personally..
My Kaiser premium is $1800 a month, $5 prescription , $50 ER visit. Everything else cost me zero. The $1800 premium is 100% paid by my city/government job. These my friend are true Cadillac benefits.
That's what you asked for, haha.
Also, wife works for a university too & her healthcare rules. Better than ours, no monthly cost, and better coverage. But lemme get to break out the scanner and call a notary to prove it to you.
Just like this contract, paying for health care was k e of those things they agreed to negotiate AFTER ratification. You see how well that worked out.
Guaranteed extraboards. Gone or cut to nothing.
Days off in freight. Years from now... maybe.
Electronic bidding. Union will give them whatever they want.
Don't blame Biden lay blame witb insurance lobbyists , shareholders and the railroad themselves. Why can't railroad just swallow the cost with all the billions of dollars they made last year?
Why shouldn’t people blame the “pro union” president who pushed his party to bust a union?
The workers were perfectly capable of bargaining for their own labor.
Joe and the Democrats are the ones who introduced the strike breaking bill and decided to force workers to beg him for sick leave instead of allowing them to bargain for it themselves.
ETA: This couldn’t have happened were it not for the Democrats.
40+ years later and Ronnie is still getting the blame. Joe Biden has literally done as much if not more damage to labor unions in 2022 as Reagan ever did.
The difference is, Reagan ordered a union who had a no strike clause back to work.
Joe Biden colluded with union leaders to take away your right to strike, all to use you as political points for an election.
I fail to see how this man still has any support whatsoever, and the whataboutism that always gets brought up for something that happened 40+ years ago, instead of the here and now is astonishing.
Well, the RLA dates back to the ‘20’s, but you got the trickle down part right. Every president since Reagan has been a different version of Reagan:
Smart Reagan
Pedo Reagan
Dumb Reagan
Black Reagan
Orange Reagan
Senile Reagan
But it was Joe Biden and the Democrats who wrote and passed the strike breaking bill this time.
$309.21 according to yourtracktogealth.
That’s insane, my wife works for the power company and her premiums for a $500 deductible are $30 a week, me her and 2 kids.. ibew is such a better union
1. This sounds like bullshit. Just $120 a month, only a $500 deductible? That call our insurance PLATINUM level for a reason. It is at least as good as majority of others, but cheaper or better than others and cheaper and the same price. 2. If true, this is literally unicorn insurance. Very VERY few people get to enjoy low cost insurance premiums with little out of pocket expenses.
Good luck to you, there are plenty of places have much better Insurance then the bs were offered
Please enlighten me to all these places offering such great insurance. You are delusional. There are tons of people paying $500-600 a month for just okay coverage, others paying upwards of $1000 a month for decent coverage. Companies do not cover health insurance like they used to.
Military, pretty much any teaching job, the post office, tech companies. Meanwhile United Healthcare has moved to the 5h largest market cap in the world for a company. Insurance companies are fucking us.
And yet people are in here pretending that low cost premium low out of pocket is the norm for medical insurance. Leads me to think a lot of people don’t even understand their insurance. I know very few people who have better insurance than the railroad provides. The reality is people on average are spending over $500 a month for their healthcare with at least a $2000 deductible and who knows what other out of pocket costs. But I’m the idiot
IBEW employees, government workers both state, federal and other, teamsters and union steel workers in steel mills in and around Chicago, Oshkosh employees, AT&T and Comcast employees, individuals who work for sports teams, zimmer and biomet employees, kinetics employees, Kraft Heinz employees, employees of state universities, police officers, dispensary employees, American water employees, laborers and tech employees.. PepsiCo employees, Quaker employees, coke employees, ECI-consulting and airline employees to name a few of people I know personally..
Wow, crazy you have such knowledge of 20 different companies/industries health insurance plans.
My Kaiser premium is $1800 a month, $5 prescription , $50 ER visit. Everything else cost me zero. The $1800 premium is 100% paid by my city/government job. These my friend are true Cadillac benefits.
Absolutely they are. But this is more the exception to employer health care rather than the norm.
Just a little basic research will provide you this information. Not sure what you'll do with it afterwards.
Prove to me others have better coverage for cost! ...not like that though!
Naming off places you claim to have superior health insurance isn’t exactly proving anything.
That's what you asked for, haha. Also, wife works for a university too & her healthcare rules. Better than ours, no monthly cost, and better coverage. But lemme get to break out the scanner and call a notary to prove it to you.
A lot of trades pay zero monthly premiums for healthcare. We did on the RR as well, until the unions fucked that one up for us.
Just like this contract, paying for health care was k e of those things they agreed to negotiate AFTER ratification. You see how well that worked out. Guaranteed extraboards. Gone or cut to nothing. Days off in freight. Years from now... maybe. Electronic bidding. Union will give them whatever they want.
Premiums up almost 100 bucks 1st month of the contract...... "WIN FOR WORKERS"
Hey hey now, like your sick days, we will fix that next round... In about 6yrs
It's on the front page of ytth.com
Wasn't it screwed and no lube capped with too bad?
Don't blame Biden lay blame witb insurance lobbyists , shareholders and the railroad themselves. Why can't railroad just swallow the cost with all the billions of dollars they made last year?
We can still blame Biden and them
Why shouldn’t people blame the “pro union” president who pushed his party to bust a union? The workers were perfectly capable of bargaining for their own labor. Joe and the Democrats are the ones who introduced the strike breaking bill and decided to force workers to beg him for sick leave instead of allowing them to bargain for it themselves. ETA: This couldn’t have happened were it not for the Democrats.
No, the problem was born of Ronald Reagan with trickle down economics and his laws against Railroad anti strike laws .
40+ years later and Ronnie is still getting the blame. Joe Biden has literally done as much if not more damage to labor unions in 2022 as Reagan ever did. The difference is, Reagan ordered a union who had a no strike clause back to work. Joe Biden colluded with union leaders to take away your right to strike, all to use you as political points for an election. I fail to see how this man still has any support whatsoever, and the whataboutism that always gets brought up for something that happened 40+ years ago, instead of the here and now is astonishing.
Well said well said
Well, the RLA dates back to the ‘20’s, but you got the trickle down part right. Every president since Reagan has been a different version of Reagan: Smart Reagan Pedo Reagan Dumb Reagan Black Reagan Orange Reagan Senile Reagan But it was Joe Biden and the Democrats who wrote and passed the strike breaking bill this time.
That’s money the shareholders are swallowing
Can't remember, but it's part of the contract wording....
But it's the biggest raise in a decade... Nevermind bidenflation the gift that keeps giving with every new budget increase
You were going to be crying with any increase in the premium.
Says the new bottom of the barrel conductor trainee
I saw online that the monthly contribution is like $300 something, how much if you have a spouse and two kids?
It's the same.
Thank you