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The union movement will gain billions of dollars if Obamacare passes.
The most obvious payout is the taxpayer bailout for union health plans.
Many union-negotiated retiree health plans cannot pay their scheduled
benefits. Rather than reducing benefits, the bill passes those costs
onto taxpayers to the tune of $10 billion. But that is small potatoes
compared to what the bill will do for union membership.
If Congress passes a “public plan,” most employers will drop their
health benefits and force their workers onto the government plan. A
public plan means government-run health care for almost all Americans.
That would make the health care system a prime target for union
organizers. Unions would quickly bring in millions of new dues-paying
members.
 It’s no accident that the strongest supporter of the
public plan is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Purple-shirted SEIU activists have filled Town Hall meetings across the
country to counter the angry opposition of ordinary citizens. Why? The
SEIU represents nurses and other health care workers.
If the
government runs health care, then the SEIU’s membership rolls will
swell. If union rates among nurses in America rose to Canadian levels,
then the SEIU would bring in over a billion dollars a year in new
mandatory dues. Newly organized technicians and other medical support
staff would add even more to that total. The Labor movement has a huge
financial stake in the government dominating health care. [Excerpted from Labor Unions on Health Care: Their True Motives ]
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