Remember 3 years ago
when we heard that MGM-Mirage was buying out the Mandalay Group? Remember how
much better we thought our benefits would be? "Yeah we're going to get PTO,
better medical, and a lot more and bigger action so our tokes are going through
the roof!" Okay so we were a little naive back then, but have we learned enough
about corporate greed yet? Let's see.
In just over 2 1/5 years, we have seen our medical benefit package decrease
twice. First, we gave up our CPO plan - in which we paid a $10.00 co-pay for
each doctor visit - for a PPO plan - where their is no nasty co-payment but
rather a 80-20 package where we share in the joy of paying 20% of each doctor
visit - with about a 500% increase. Next as of Jan 1st 2008, that PPO 80-20
package gets upgraded to a 70-30 package. Now for those of you who submitted to
the health survey last year, you can joyously retain your 80-20 rate for one
more year before getting raped like the rest of us. By our calculations, in the
year 2012, we'll all be enrolled in a lovely PPO 50-50 package. Can you feel the
love?
Many of us have had to cancel our short and long term disability
insurance because the company has decided to cut their contributions. As for our
life insurance, that leaves us in a bit of a quandary. Do we cancel and stop
paying the premiums that we've been paying into for the past 8 years because they
have now almost doubled, or do we continue paying in and hope we die soon. We need
Representation, we need a Bargaining
Collective Voice. We Need to Unite! Now is the time!
