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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:05 PM Original message |
I know unions convince` employers to get good working conditions, |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. The employers do the negotiating and contracting |
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Fierce (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
2. They don't badger. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Unions and employers have control over pay wages. |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. In very few cases do Doctors set fees anymore. |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. The only medical professionals I know who are "riding high on the hog"... |
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Vexatious Ape (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Good question. |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ahhhhhhh! |
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Vexatious Ape (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Maybe they could work together to "badger" Washington |
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philosophie_en_rose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Employers should provide free health care. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. you would need politicians who put the needs of people ahead of insurance companies |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. If employers (and probably unions too) would get over the old world |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because the unions are completely excluded from that process. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. It's not as if the employers LIKE the increasing cost of insurance. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I didn't suggest that they did. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Hm, I think they already have a motivation for hard nosed negotiation. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. No, because those increases are happening across the board. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. But the unions negotiate what will be passed on to the employee. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 03:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. But those negotiations are going from prices already set between insurers and employers. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. Healthcare workers are union too |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. You're confusing healthcare workers with benefits providers. |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. The IBEW is implementing it's own national health care coverage. |
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