Add the Laborers International Union of North America to the list of organized labor groups criticizing ObamaCare\u2019s disastrous effects on the status quo.<\/p>\n
In a letter to Democratic leaders, President Terry O\u2019Sullivan called for a halt to the health law\u2019s \u201cdestructive consequences\u201d<\/a> on the costs and provision of health care.<\/p>\n Unlike the Teamsters<\/a> and other unions<\/a>, Laborers International did not support ObamaCare when it was passed into law. Unfortunately, they are just as oppressed by the law\u2019s cost increases and coverage interruptions as those that did.<\/p>\n With the employer mandate delayed for at least a year, maybe there\u2019s enough angst brewing among the Democrats\u2019 liberal base to pressure delaying the entire law for at least as long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add the Laborers International Union of North America to the list of organized labor groups criticizing ObamaCare\u2019s disastrous effects on the status quo. In a letter to Democratic leaders, President Terry O\u2019Sullivan called for a halt to the health law\u2019s \u201cdestructive consequences\u201d on the costs and provision of health care. Unlike the Teamsters and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4192,3308,1186,1009,35,1447,4201,1051],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-employer","tag-health","tag-labor","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-teamsters","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18421,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions\/18421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}