Originally Posted by
KiloAlpha
You've talked about this subject before. I'm paying about the same next year for a 80/20 plan as I paid for my 90/10 plan this year. Not happy about the situation. I believe your numbers, you made the selections after all, but have no idea where they are coming from.
Nationwide, health insurance is changing drastically. $300 seems excessive though. You are likely to pay more for less no matter where you work. Sad, but true
Wife and I went thru this thing over and over and over and its $150 per pay check and that is huge. Now add a tax to that and am right back at my same pay as last yr before the raise. Now to me and hourly rate is not nearly as important as the work rules. One can make $300/hr but I have pay for my own uniform and hotel costs that great rate becomes crap in an hurry. Now this is the extreme but I know you get the idea.
This company made billions in profits thus far and quite frankly I am past the whole "we'll get'em next time" mantra. All I have to sell is my time and skill and I refuse to give it away or sell it short because I am afraid of arbitration. I KNOW who pushes up the throttles, do you?
WD at AWA