health benefits

[Ron Kuykendall]

What is the name of your state? Indiana
All the salary workers and retirees at Ford Motor Company are being charged a monthly fee for their health insurance benefits.
I could understand their problems, but the hourly workers make no such sacrifice and have all their health benefits paid by the company. It appears to me the company is making up on the salary workers that retired on a fixed income what they can't get from the hourly due to a strong union. This seems to me like discrimination to the older retiree that thought this would never happen.
Ron

 

[racer72]

It is not discrimination, it is called the free enterprise system. Salaried employees at Ford freely chose to work for Ford with the system in place. No one is forcing any employees to pay for their medical, if they do not want to pay, they are free to go find employement elsewhere. As a union member, I recieve certain benefits that non union employees do not. However, there are things the salaried folks get that I don't. I am sure it is the same at Ford.