Thursday, August 18, 2011

Health insurance


Many of the membership are now tied down with hospital or other medical bills that the health insurance company refuses to pay for some unknown mysterious reason. However, that is not the only problem now to add insult to injury the credit rating of those TWU Local 100 members is shredded due to the outstanding bills. There is a member whose wife has multiple sclerosis and to be normal daily she needs the costly medication. Another member whose family member needs dialysis due to being on a waiting list to get a kidney is hobbled with medical and hospital bills in addition to their credit rating going down. What is the solution? Now not tomorrow many had hoped to have heard from John E Samuelsen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union - TBOU that all your problems will be solved by Ms. Benita Johnson who will handle the medical grievance.
John E Samuelsen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union - TBOU has pinned hopes of those desperate members on the medical grievance. However 
Ms. Benita Johnson with the medical grievance that she prepared at the arbitrator was laughed at. Now the question is what do those members above have to do before the bill collectors come calling or start harassing them? Obviously John E Samuelsen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union - TBOU dropped the ball when he agreed with the employer to the health audit with the sole intention to drop family members from health insurance coverage. The other issue was acquiescing to the employer to switch health insurance coverage from one company to another not on the principle of ‘equal or better’ but rather from ‘better to worse’. 

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