Coke Cancels Employee Health Care

Coke canceled the health care plan of 500 employees after a protracted contract dispute.   Five employees have filed a class action lawsuit.

"My wife had a kidney transplant two years ago. When Coke cancelled our health care, they cut off her anti-rejection medication. This shows me that Coke doesn't care about its employees," said Bill Mauhl, a 34-year Coke employee, who works in the company's production facility in Bellevue.



"In my almost twenty years of representing workers and unions in labor disputes, it's hard to think of any past instance where I have seen an employer retaliate against its striking workers in a manner as egregious as what the Coca-Cola Bottling Company has done here," said Dmitri Iglitzin, an attorney at Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, an employment law firm based in Seattle.


"Cutting off the medical benefits to more than 500 workers, knowing that many of them rely on those benefits on a day-to-day basis and will be irreparably harmed if they lose those benefits is a brutal, full-scale attack by Coke on its own workers," Iglitzin said.

Well get used to it.  Soon, all employers are going to dump their insurance plans; forcing all of us on Obamacare.  And if you think that you are being violated now, wait until you're brought before Dr. Berwick's death panel.

Source:  http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/08/28/employees-file-suit-coke-cancelling-health-care/?cmpid=prn_baynote_fallback_Employees_File_Suit_Against_Coke_for_Cancelling_Their_Health_Care