MORE STINKING LIES from NAGE

Remember that "tentative agreement" that NAGE published and made available to the members?

Guess what? That piece of garbage was not the agreement.

According to Geg Sorozan the ACTUAL AGREEMENT has not been shared with any of you morons.
You'll have your first look at it when the ballot comes in the mail.

Obviously NAGE is up to their usual tactic to keep the members IN THE DARK, as long as possible, and provide as short a timeline as possible to vote up or down ....
....with NO Democratic Forum to discuss and debate the merits.....

How much longer will you Sheeple put up with this kind of treatment?....======>

Here's what Greg is saying on his Blog: (has he gone off his meds or what?....sharing anything with the members?..... Holway will have to take him to the woodshed for this....)


AGREEMENT NEXT STEPS AND GIC INCREASES
 In a meeting today (Nov. 20), the Group Insurance Commission voted toincrease co-pays and deductibles (no kidding, what a surprise.... got to pay for all the free health care for those "New Americans"the Gov is so worried about....screw you NAGE Folks) for participants in GIC plans.

Co-pays for primary care physician visits, specialist visits, and retail clinic visits will increase $5;
co-pays for outpatient surgery will increase $10;
and co-pays for emergency room visits and hi-tech imaging, such as MRIs, will increase $25.

Wait for it....here's where they are really putting the screws to you....

Deductibles of $250 for individuals and $750 for families will be imposed for the first time!!!!

These new co-pay and deductible rates go into effect February 1, 2010.

That’s the bad news....It sure is Greg....thanks for nothing NAGE....


The good news is that, in the tentative agreement (really? there is nothing like that in the agreement that has been shared with the members) reached between NAGE and the Commonwealth, there is the following provision:


“Should the GIC raise co-pays or deductibles in FY 10 or FY11,
employees represented by NAGE will be reimbursed for the difference
between current rates and the revised rates. (Oh that's rich, so we're supposed to believe that they are screwing us to save money, but then they are just going to reimburse us for the difference?....come on, what's really going on here?)This agreement is in effect through June 30, 2011.”

This provision, of course, will be in effect only upon members’ ratification of the agreement.
Here it comes:


The reimbursement process for the co-pays and deductibles will be cumbersome,(oh, do tell....) and the details of how the reimbursement program will operate are not final, but NAGE bargaining unit members in Units 1, 3, and 6 "have assurance"

(OH REALLY? only assurance?.... NOT EVEN "SOLID ASSURANCES?".... sounds pretty weak to me....OH IT just came to me.... the reimbursement mechanism will be SO CUMBERSOME, that they are counting on you sheeple to be TOO STUPID and LAZY to figure it out....meaning you'll never get reimbursed.... yeah that sounds right!)
...that they will be held harmless in this event of the GIC’s increases and any future increases through June 30, 2011.

On another note, we expect to be notifying members in the near
future of the new dates for the mailing of the ratification ballots and
the new date for the counting of those ballots. It is our hope to
complete the ratification vote by mid-December.

OK, when you get the ballot VOTE NO....
don't give up your optical and dental benefits,

don't take furloughs, and get laid off anyway....

don't say thank you for getting screwed out of your stinkin' 1%.....

stand up on your hind hooves and VOTE NO!

Remember anything you think you're getting in this concession agreement is SUBJECT TO BEING FUNDED by the Legislature (Yeah the same legislature that refused to fund the current agreement.)

SO don't be so gullible to think that just because you have a signed agreement that the Commonwealth will live up to it's end of the bargain, THEY HAVE ALREADY SHOWN THEY WON'T!

You won't get any of the "benefits" offered (like those "reimbursements of medical deductibles that shouldn't have been imposed in the first place..... BUT, for damn sure you will lose your optical and dental benefits and you will take those payless furloughs, OH...and the "handful" of layoffs avoided.... it won't help you.

AND Most importantly!..... Folks STAY HEALTHY!..... you can see the way this is going, if you actually need to have access to medical services...IT WILL COST YOU, at least until rationing begins under OBAMA-Care, then you may not get it at all...... 

Next step Health Insurance for State Employess via the "Health Connector"....mass health..... that will do till OBAMA-Care, then the Cdommonwealth will be able to dump your coverage completely..... you heard it here 1st....