Posted on 02/27/2014 3:28:41 PM PST by lowbridge
Severely impacted by the negative effects of Obamacare, Blake Frund, a worker at a central Illinois Police Department, is asking the question millions of Americans are now asking: “Why do we need Obamacare?”
Frund works part-time with almost-full time hours. He was aware that because of Obamacare insurance costs to municipalities and businesses, he would have his hours reduced, but he did not know the extent of his soon-to-be work woes.
His boss informed him at Christmastime that his work week would be reduced to 56 hours per week from 79 hours per week. He lost about $300 a month in income.
Frund thankfully had savings, but he had to move from his house to crash at a friend’s apartment and was forced pick up two additional jobs to make up for the lost income.
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At long last...obama/romney/heritagecare has a redeeming quality!
Only works 56 hours a week?
Best guess - 56 hours biweekly. Editor should wake up...
That also means he is making about $6.50 an hour if he is only losing $300 per month from a 46 hour cut.
Best guess - 56 hours biweekly. Editor should wake up...
Assuming that’s true, he said he’s losing about $300/month when going from 79 to 56 [biweekly]. That means that he’s getting paid $6.52 per hour?
The loss is likely bi-weekly too and after taxes. I would guess about $900 in monthly income loss.
I’m assuming they made another good - $300 a week instead of a month would make more sense.
I hope they don’t take it out on the dogs...or the citizens.
If it is that city COP working the speed trap in Mound City, I am all for it.
good they will suffer like the rest of the peons they rule over.
most of them voted for barrycades, in illinois, and i have no sympathy that they are getting screwedlike everyone else. their uions dumkped millions to get barrycades elected and re-eected. rot with everyone else you jack-booted, trigger-happy thugs.
Illinois gave us obammy.
Frankly I don’t give a crap what happens in Illinois any more.
Article posted: 3/2/2014 6:47 AM
Shift in unions raises questions about future
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MUNCIE, Ind. — Once a mighty labor union town, Muncie now has more police officers and office workers in organized labor than welders and auto workers.
With the closing of Muncie’s last two big auto industry plants — and union strongholds — now several years back in the rear view mirror, can Muncie ever recover its footing as a labor-friendly town?
And should it?
New figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that union membership is half what it was a generation ago. And much of the modern-day organized labor force can be found in government jobs and not in the private sector.
Mike Jones, a former official for United Auto Workers Local 499 — which represented workers at Chevrolet and its successors — said a lot has been lost locally with the loss of unions.
“With labor unions, workers have the right to earn a higher wage rate and a better benefits package,” Jones told The Star Press (http://tspne.ws/1ms9kHc ). “As a result, the workers would spend more available money than the current workforce has to dispose of. That keeps restaurants open and retail outlets open and cars selling and the whole nine yards.
“When higher-paying jobs are present, it raises the local economy,” Jones added. “A rising tide lifts all boats.”
But Michael Hicks, a Ball State University economist, said that while organizations representing the interests of workers in the workplace are a good thing, the “one size fits all” approach of labor unions was counter-productive.
“Private sector labor unions have been failing at a remarkable rate,” Hicks said. “At a time when manufacturing employment is strong or stabilized, their membership is plummeting.”
Union membership in 2013 was about 11.3 percent of the U.S. workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s unchanged since 2012. So is the number of workers who belong to unions: 14.5 million.
But union membership is much smaller than it once was. In 1983, when the government began keeping track, union membership was 20.1 percent of the workforce and 17.7 million people were union workers.
The flip-flop in who’s part of a union is dramatic. Public-sector workers, like those in government jobs, had a union membership rate of 35 percent compared to 6.7 percent for private-sector workers...
Read: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140302/news/140309914/print/
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