Monday, December 07, 2020
SAG-AFTRA Attacks Opponents of Healthcare Cuts: 'You Are Being Misled'
Variety: Three days after the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and its Trustees were sued over upcoming cuts in benefits and eligibility for the plan, leaders of SAG-AFTRA have blasted backers of the suit and accused them of lying.
“There’s no easy way to say this: You are being misled,” the performers union said Friday night in a message to its 160,000 members.
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It seems like both AEA and SAG-AFTRA are dealing with healthcare issues. This makes sense as the health care fund for both unions only grows or remains stable when contracts are going out and companies are paying into the health insurance fund. This article is crazy and highlights the misinformation wars that are going on right now. This article also seems to highlight the huge problem of healthcare for seniors, not only the insurance issues but also problems with having enough eldercare works as the boomers are all starting to become/have become senior citizens and need elder care attention. Reading about how the new healthcare structures were put in place in 2017 and are now affecting things hugely is a horrifying example of the butterfly effect that happens with public policy, health insurance, medical care, and other human resources issues (and with COVID case numbers but that is whole separate issues). This article really highlighted our problem of not having universal health care and how it affects gig economy members. I also wonder how SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood being based in California works with the whole new rules about gig economy workers (that I still don't really understand).
Every time I see an article about SAG-AFTRA, they show their offices in California. I wonder what that building costs to run and maintain, how many staff are employed and how much do all of them make? I wonder this because all I have seen lately is how the union is cutting health benefits to older actors or spouses and saying that these cuts are necessary. Exactly how much are the plans trustees getting paid anyway and why is anyone who is in executive leadership at SAG-AFTRA a trustee for the health care plan? Shouldn’t they be two distinctly separate governing bodies? I’ve said before that when cuts need to be made, they need to start from the top and not the bottom. If these trustees are getting paid, why not start there and redirect that money back into the plan. At this point SAG is playing damage control and trying to shift blame. Hopefully the members see through what I view as a charade and hold the SAG leaders accountable for their failures and financial mismanagement.
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