I feel for your Hubby. Had to be tough on him.
Yeah. He dreaded doing it. Those people have families to care for, too.
The companies health care plan was really quite cheap for them. The company has always been family oriented, but the additional obomacost to the company for their Cadillac plans made it way too much. The company had to let them go. What else could they do? They'd go out of business with an additional expense like that.
The salaried people still get to keep their plans, because the upper level people are harder to replace. We get to keep ours (so far) - thank God.