Most likely, your current contract allows for your employer to pass on a percentage of, or maybe even the full amount of, any increase in the cost of the annual health insurance benefit, directly on to the employee. It all depends on how it is defined in your contract and every contract is different.
While you're trying to educate us on collective bargaining, do you not understand that the Brookwood coal miners don't have a current contract? Strikes by labor and lockouts by companies occur when negotiations for new contracts stall.
Listen instead of running your mouth about irrelevant stuff like building cars and you may learn a thing or two.
I dont know anything about the Brookwood contract, whether they are on strike, or whether their contract has elapsed or what the situation is and I dont really care one way or the other. While I am talking about unions and contracts in general terms, I do have years of experience dealing with unions in a manufacturing environment and every single one that I've dealt with has been loaded with DA's like you. If what you are saying is true and they do not have a current contract, Brookwood' negotiating team had better be careful playing hardball or they might end up costing all those union guys their careers, with new management and this current labor market. Shouldn't you be out there somewhere carrying sign, protesting, or are you on break, or is that not your "craft" ????
