{"id":587,"date":"2009-11-02T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:09","slug":"american-spectator-on-government-run-health-care-plan-taking-care-of-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/american-spectator-on-government-run-health-care-plan-taking-care-of-big-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"American Spectator on Government-Run Health Care Plan: \u00abTaking Care of Big Labor\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn <i>The American Spectator<\/i>, reporter Kevin Mooney interviews Right to Work experts about the hidden payoffs to union bosses tucked away in the thousands of pages of health care overhaul legislation.  Here&#8217;s a sample:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\tConsider the language contained in section 2531 submerged deep within the House version. Here the bill stipulates that any participating health care employer &quot;provides wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organization.&quot;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;This phrase &#8216;competitive for its market&#8217; is not defined,&quot; said Greg Mourad, the main author of the NRTWC study. &quot;This means the Obama administration will be free to define the phrase using Davis-Bacon standards and this would make it almost impossible for non-union employees to qualify.&quot;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe approach is similar to what has been done with apprentice programs in federal construction work, Stefan Gleason, vice-president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, explained.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;This is a scheme that is used to fund union organizations that are supposedly doing job training but are often doing other activities,&quot; he said. &quot;The scenario that is set up essentially bblack-balls non-union contractors from even being eligible to work on federal contracts at all. There is a similar strategy at work here with health care.&quot;\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRead the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2009\/11\/02\/taking-care-of-big-labor\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn <i>The American Spectator<\/i>, reporter Kevin Mooney interviews Right to Work experts about the hidden payoffs to union bosses tucked away in the thousands of pages of health care overhaul legislation.  Here&#8217;s a sample:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\tConsider the language contained in section 2531 submerged deep within the House version. Here the bill stipulates that any participating health care employer &quot;provides wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organization.&quot;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;This phrase &#8216;competitive for its market&#8217; is not defined,&quot; said Greg Mourad, the main author of the NRTWC study. &quot;This means the Obama administration will be free to define the phrase using Davis-Bacon standards and this would make it almost impossible for non-union employees to qualify.&quot;\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Spectator on Government-Run Health Care Plan: &quot;Taking Care of Big Labor&quot; - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/american-spectator-on-government-run-health-care-plan-taking-care-of-big-labor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Spectator on Government-Run Health Care Plan: &quot;Taking Care of Big Labor&quot; - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In The American Spectator, reporter Kevin Mooney interviews Right to Work experts about the hidden payoffs to union bosses tucked away in the thousands of pages of health care overhaul legislation. 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