You've Got To Fight, For Your Right...

With this new law/tax going into affect (obamaCare) Colorado's insurance exchanges cranked into business - then ground to a halt - but still went into affect at the beginning of October.

One has to simply spend 5 minutes to find great coverage for far less.
I say far less but I'll explain that phrase here in a minute.

RTD gives each employee who is shackled by the union, something like $549 a month to pay for health insurance.
But that stipend never makes it to the employee.
The union snags that then sends a piece of paper to the employee that reads, "Hey, in order to satisfy the new obamaCare tax/law, you are covered."
That coverage for a single member - on top of the $549 the union already collects from RTD on the member's behalf - can cost hundreds of dollars more.
OR that member can take a "high deductible - no premium" coverage that can cost the members thousands of dollars in yearly deductibles to use, were that member to ever need it.

5 minutes on any of these new health insurance exchange sites and you can find Gold level coverage with no deductibles and $20 copays for close to half the cost of the monthly stipend that RTD gives us to use for health insurance.

The union takes that money then charges the member almost twice that much again each month while offering far less coverage.

And the union says it is looking out for and providing benefits to the members!

Well, along comes Allen Grove.

A mechanic from RTD's Platte Division who no longer wants to put up with the union's hate and extortion of both RTD, the tax payer/public/customer and the employees.

The union sent a letter to all of us to let us know that Allen Grove filed a petition to allow the maintenance employees to be free from the union tyranny and leave the union.
Of course the union paints that as the end of the world as we know it, for all employees being oppressed by the union and for those who would leave.

The letter includes two pages of liberal propaganda to scare members into voting against allowing the maintenance employees their freedom from the union.

Finally, the end of this propaganda letter admits that the union king pin cannot deny Allen Grove his right to pursue this petition to get the heck out and he admits that the rest of us have the right to speak up - to support and join Mr. Allen Grove in his efforts to rid himself and his coworkers of this demoralizing and oppressive organization.

Allen Grove:
We support you.
You'd be surprised, in spite of what the few union supporters and their mob bosses will lead us to believe, there are many of us who will support you.
When the vote comes, in spite of the scare tactics, the bullying employed at the ballot box and the threats they liberally spread around the work force - we will vote with you and grant you your freedom of choice.

The writer of the union propaganda letter & his side kick have both expressed their lack of love for those they profess to represent and they are very vocal in their pride of their extortion of the public, the tax payer, the customer and RTD.
He urges us to push aside how we feel about him personally but he forgets that it is him personally who embodies and personifies the union.

Stand strong Mr. Allen Grove.
We're standing with you.

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!

Speaking of Ding Dongs...

I'm sure we've all heard about the Hostess fiasco.
The Unions demanded more money, more benefits and refused to allow any benefit cuts in order to save the company.
Of course the Unions will tell you that it's company mismanagement of funds and in a sense, they are right.
The company kept giving into the Union's extortion.

And like every other private American company that's been extorted by the Unions in the past, the company has the choice of either outsourcing to afford to operate, of cutting services and operations back (scaling back) or of going bankrupt.
We've watched our manufacturing base move overseas or go belly up in response to Union extortion.
Some companies smart up and move to non-Union States, like Boeing.

I mention this because RTD has been gripped by Union (ATU 1001) extortion for decades.
The Union's contract is expiring in March and even though the average Coloradoan hasn't seen a wage increase and RTD has been cutting back on services in response to the slagged economy...even though we (the Taxpayer) can't afford it, the Union feels it is entitled to more of what you have.

The Union raised our dues at least twice over the last year or so, and they are going to raise it again and all that does is fatten their wallets and get obama re-elected.
They want you to pay more to the RTD employee so that they can charge us more and buy bigger homes, nicer cars and afford better lives than we have.

They feel they are entitled to what you have and that you owe them all they can extort from you.

And you can bet that they will strike, shut down services that are vitally needed here on the Front Range, just to force you to pay it.

Just another heads up.

I've heard talk after talk, rumour after rumour and we've had dozens of meetings to prepare us for "action."

As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Don't give the Unions an inch - Let's Roll!"